05-02-2021, 10:02 AM
(04-27-2021, 05:00 PM)ac3r Wrote:There should be retail - even if it is an 'urban' box store location like a Staples or something. There is no foot traffic because there is mostly parking in that area. If a 44 fl building goes in, I'm sure there can be justification for some kind of retail, or even an 'urban Sobeys'. We gotta think about the future of that area, and it would be a shame if every new building made a choice like that.(04-27-2021, 04:33 PM)westwardloo Wrote: I presume the podium is completely parking garage then?
Not entirely. It'll have the usual stuff like a concierge, mail room, service rooms and resident amenities etc. Floors 2-6 will be parking as well as some residential units. Floor 7 will have a few more residential units as well as the rooftop terrace by the local GSP Group Incorporated which is proposed to have some standard facilities like seating, plants/trees, a grill. They are doing most of the landscape architecture for the building...which is not a whole lot besides some trees and the terrace.
I imagine the lack of retail is due to the location. It's not really on a block that gets much foot traffic.
By the way, in case this reads as directed at you I don't mean it as such. But if I was the city, a developer for a project this large didn't try to have some kind of 'meaningful' retail added, I would try to facilitate some kind of agreement with retailers - large or small for this location.