The Barrel Yards | 25 fl | U/C

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I find the whole complex to be dark, bulky, and uninviting so far, although I've been inside and the apartments are beautiful.  Apart from the hotel, I can't see any reason for non-residents to set foot there, based on what's there so far.

I'd agree with this.  I'm curious what, if anything, will be done to address this.  

Or is it even possible at this point?

I'm all for mixed usage, but this doesn't mean every place has to be that way. This development has a hotel and two office towers. Does it really need to have a restaurant at the bottom of each apartment tower to classify as ok? Will we demand that every house from now on should have a room dedicated for nonresident attraction? Or do we hold it to the more reasonable "something interesting not too far away"? 

Because this development certainly more than meets this criterion with their commercial development in site and literally dozens of points of interest (rec complex, PI, CCGG, CIGI, Proof, Sole, Church, Waterloo town shoppes, the atrium, uptown, waterloo park, the westmount mall, the button factory) all within a block and a half distance.