06-02-2022, 11:56 AM
(06-01-2022, 04:48 PM)taylortbb Wrote:(06-01-2022, 11:19 AM)tomh009 Wrote: This isn't even a heritage facade -- it's a faux heritage facade. If the render is correct, those are new facades that only vaguely resemble the current ones. (The one on the right looks like Pearl Laundry, but that's not where Pearly Laundry is actually located.)
This drawing makes it a (bit) clearer what's going on. The road widening (road means the entire street here, including sidewalk) takes the land of the end building, making the Pearl Laundry building the new end building along Charles St. So I think they are keeping the facades, just demolishing the end building. It's probably the best part of the proposal, Charles St is too narrow right there and a wider sidewalk is good for the future.
More sidewalk is good.
But the end building is currently about 11m wide. In the above drawing, the edge of the new building is about 6m from the property line. So, the Pearl facade is moving (?) or being "reconstructed" about 5m closer to the corner.