06-29-2015, 08:14 AM
(06-28-2015, 10:55 PM)panamaniac Wrote:(06-28-2015, 10:47 PM)BuildingScout Wrote: Charles doesn't have enough activity to attract traffic, even today with the station. Create a line of shops facing the extended park, parallel to Ottawa street, redevelop that street mall as well as the parking lot on Charles and Ottawa and suddenly you have all the key ingredients, with a corridor connecting to downtown and nonstop flow from one place to another.
Do you mean Ontario St rather than Ottawa St?
Ah, with Ontario St that part now makes sense to me!
That larger parking lot is owned by DREAM Office REIT, the same company that owns the (formerly new) Canada Trust Tower next door. Original plans called for a second tower in that parking lot (there is still a scale model inside the building) and I suspect that the zoning is for commercial/retail.
The smaller parking lot on the other side might be owned by the city, but it's not really large enough for a substantial development.