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Nice! The building looks good. Looks like no ground-floor retail but still a nice ground-floor finish with the wall set well back from the sidewalk. There is plenty of ground-floor retail space available within 100m of the building, both across the street and over in Eaton Lofts, so I can accept the lack of retail in this building.
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(09-22-2017, 10:40 AM)tomh009 Wrote: Nice! The building looks good. Looks like no ground-floor retail but still a nice ground-floor finish with the wall set well back from the sidewalk. There is plenty of ground-floor retail space available within 100m of the building, both across the street and over in Eaton Lofts, so I can accept the lack of retail in this building.
From the press release, "345 King West will be a 6 storey, 120,000 SF office building featuring at grade retail space and will be a welcome addition to the King Street streetscape."
So now you can be even happier.
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That looks great. And I think six storeys is very appropriate there.
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(09-22-2017, 11:00 AM)KingandWeber Wrote: (09-22-2017, 10:40 AM)tomh009 Wrote: Nice! The building looks good. Looks like no ground-floor retail but still a nice ground-floor finish with the wall set well back from the sidewalk. There is plenty of ground-floor retail space available within 100m of the building, both across the street and over in Eaton Lofts, so I can accept the lack of retail in this building.
From the press release, "345 King West will be a 6 storey, 120,000 SF office building featuring at grade retail space and will be a welcome addition to the King Street streetscape."
So now you can be even happier.
Ah! I should have read the press release instead of just looking at the render! Indeed, I'm quite happy with this now!
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It looks like the project will also consist of the neighbouring property (319-331 king st)
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From the render, it looks like Rana, Unity Baking, and Golden Turtle are going to be displaced. Anyone know what's likely to happen to those businesses? I hope they don't go far.
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(09-28-2017, 09:12 AM)Belmonster Wrote: From the render, it looks like Rana, Unity Baking, and Golden Turtle are going to be displaced. Anyone know what's likely to happen to those businesses? I hope they don't go far.
Rana recently opened a restaurant on University Ave.
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Don't forget about the America Latina market at the back of the building too.
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(09-28-2017, 10:31 AM)goggolor Wrote: Don't forget about the America Latina market at the back of the building too.
They're a bit of an institution. Will be interesting to see where they move to. Somewhere on King E, perhaps?
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(09-28-2017, 11:03 AM)panamaniac Wrote: (09-28-2017, 10:31 AM)goggolor Wrote: Don't forget about the America Latina market at the back of the building too.
They're a bit of an institution. Will be interesting to see where they move to. Somewhere on King E, perhaps?
This looks perfect ...
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Hopefully some of those businesses locate in the retail section of this project and setup temporary locations elsewhere.
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There is also a fair bit of empty retail space directly across King Street, although much of it is in the need of some renovation.
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I imagine they'll face the same fate on the other side of the street too.
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(09-28-2017, 02:36 PM)JoeKW Wrote: I imagine they'll face the same fate on the other side of the street too.
Some day, possibly (I suspect those buildings do not merit a heritage designation, though I could be wrong). But I can't see that happening in the next five years, more likely ten.
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