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Morning Brew: Condos planned for King and Spadina are too tall, city's "snitch" line pays off, low-income private school proposed, Lottomax winners finally get their money and Versteeg is traded to the Flyers
Looks like the scuttlebutt about condos going up at King and Spadina is true. Developers are in the early-stages of planning a series of properties surrounding the LCBO outlet on the corner of King Street and Spadina Avenue that would turn what's now a suburban-style store into a 39-storey, 443-unit condo tower that would incorporate a brick heritage building and feature futuristic, solar-energy-harnessing windows and a green roof. You'd think by adding a heritage site and one of those green roofs would make the city happy, but oh no. Councillor Adam Vaughan says the building is "too tall," which is odd considering his love for tall buildings.
Sometimes it pays off to be a tattler. Sort of. The city's hotline for fraud and waste has exposed city employees who uploaded inappropriate videos of co-workers on to the Internet during corporate time, faked sick days and solicited donations for a non-existent Christmas party. The misconduct resulted in losses of more than $85,000 to the city, but only $2,200 has been recovered so far, according to the report, which will be discussed at an audit committee meeting February 22.
Plans to open a private school for kids from low-income families who would work to pay tuition is making headway in Toronto. Father Joseph Redican, president of St. Michael's College School, once ran a Cristo Rey school in inner city Detroit and wants to bring the model here. Students would work one day a week to pay their tuition and attend longer days the other four to make up. Redican says the placements do more than cover tuition costs -- students gain important job skills and experience. I'm sure it's a great idea, but it seems a little "Oliver Twist-y" to me.
This is why I don't do these work lottery pools. So winners of a $50-million Lotto Max jackpot are finally cashing in -- more than a month after the draw with the two groups fighting over the prize finally agreeing to split the pot. The lottery corporation will pay out $31.7 million today to a group of 19 Bell employees. They are the original winners who validated their New Year's Eve ticket back in January. The other group will have to wait for a court to decide if they're entitled to any cash.
IN BRIEF:
- Leafs trade Versteeg to Flyers
- National Post calls new Steeles subway plan just one of Toronto's 'architectural wankfests'
- Ottawa makes a move to make tunnel to Island Airport legal
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These tall buildings are great, but the density is just way too much for the area.
Does anyone know what the one at <b>Gerrard/Yonge</b> will be?
<b><i>Daniel .. </b></i>
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Personally, I think 39 stories for King/Spadina is perfect, and large towers up and tower Yonge St are more than welcomed. Density has to begin with building first. Have to give people a place to live and work.
@Daniel:
the condo at Yonge and Bloor is called One Bloor http://www.1bloor.com/ The podium will be seven (7) floors comprising of high-end retail stores plus several amenities for the occupants of the condo. Ontop the podium will be a many residences to yield a total of 70 floors.
the condo at Yonge and Gerrard is called the Aura. http://www.collegeparkcondos.com/ it will boast 75 floors, in total, with over 100 retail stores in the multi-storey podium. the Aura will have a direct link to College station and there's future plans of extending the PATH from Atrium on Bay up to Aura. the penthouse suite on the 75th floor is 1 056 square metres (11 370 square feet) which is noticeably larger than the two (2) level penthouse at the Shangril-La boutique hotel / condo at Adeliade and University.
I went to St. Michael's College and my sister went to Bishop Strachan. Granted, my family was more middle than low income but, we received the benefit of bursaries which covered a large portion of our costs. Wouldn't it just be cheaper to just give out larger bursaries instead of opening a whole new school?
How many students would even attend that school anyway?
Many people attend religious schools even though they themselves are not religious or do not follow a particular school's religion.
New construction from Spadina to Jarvis and the Lake to just North of Bloor should be at minimum 20 stories. Developers and communitiy members should provide sold reasoning why any development should be shorter than this, not why it should be higher.
Because you don't want to wait six weeks to claim $1,668,421.05?
That would be rather inconvenient I guess.
1) we have a new mayor who is very vocal about privatizing public services and killing transit city, and
2) since Ford was elected, TTC and City Workers Behaving Badly is all over the front pages of The Sun, Metro and 24-Hours?
It's pretty clear that Ford and the media are aligning Torontonians against the TTC and city workers. And unfortunately, it looks like it's working.
50 cases were found by the report out of 30,000 employees, if you ask me thats pretty good isnt it?
They came out with 86 thousnad in fraud, yet it costs over 2 million to run the program. Gravy anyone?
People need to have their voices heard before there city services are delivered by private enterprise whos only concern is a profit for stockholders
And Adam, I expected better of you.
http://www.blogto.com/city/2010/10/luxury_homeless_shelter_opens_in_toronto/
And @CandyVag, where were you before Ford was elected? I don't remember people being thrilled with TTC workers then, either.