Coming Down for the Avenue

Do we hate condos just becuase they are condos? I think the corner of avenue and st.clair is an appropriate place to increase density in this city. We like density, don't we? This house is nice but it's nothing special.

I'm with Michael on this one. I grow increasingly annoyed by the lack of actual thinking that goes into the criticism of development. Good god there are so many actual issues but they get buried in the "nothing new, nothing tall, even better change nothing at all" rant and real problems never get addressed.

Michael & Chester, might I just point out that the post was not critisizing the development but their choice of signage. Their joyful banner makes you want to hate it 'cause their tearing down homes -- surely not what they were going for. Now, had that building been some decrepid eyesore, one could understand wanting to shout aloud to the community, but that banner is just so ill-placed it's almost shocking.

Before reading the accompanying comments, I really thought the sign was anti-condo. Like "Hey Toronto, look what we're tearing down for a condo"

And I'm not anti-condo myself. It's the only way I'm going to be able to afford to live in the city, so I can't complain.

this lot has been locked in litigation. The original structure was supposed to be 53 stories if I remember right --and has been reduced several times to 40 something, 30 something and now 20 something, which is still 2x the height of anything else in the area.

I'm not against condos, but this one is far to big relative to the community and I hope it does not end up getting developed. Its no better then the aholes around forest hill tearing how historical brick homes and building multiple townhouses.

The banner is abnoxious and its only a testiment to the cockiness displayed by the developer. I see it everday and wonder what they were thinking when they had it made..perhaps a cheap jab at the community members who haulte dthe development by a few years?