02-22-2018, 04:12 PM
(02-22-2018, 04:06 PM)panamaniac Wrote:(02-22-2018, 03:48 PM)Rainrider22 Wrote: Now that was a blanket statement. Are we saying that people in the east end don't deserve better ?
Not at all. Only that they are unlikely to get better, at least as far as this development is concerned.
Exactly. I will quote my earlier post on this thread:
(02-07-2018, 11:26 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Not my favourite design, either, but not every building will be beautiful, and this is leaps and bounds better than anything these properties have seen for more than 50 years.
This property had run-down car dealerships in the 1970s already, and the properties continued to deteriorate until Drewlo demolished them last year. And across Madison is an empty lot covering about half the block, which has also been unused at least since the 1970s.
The Drewlo project will finally bring new life to this area, with probably close to 1000 new residents, but it has been a long time coming. No other developer has seized the opportunity in the past half-century to develop either this property or the one across Madison St. So haters can hate the design, I am very happy to see reasonable-cost rental units in the city core, and retail at the ground level coming to this area, regardless of the aesthetic.