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[G-Man]

The Dockside Metro station looks awesome!

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[Biro]

Looks great. Is that a water feature behind the stairwell? The catenary style halo’s are v-nice.

[Todd_Doyle]

The Dockside Metro station looks awesome!

I am going to be calling these stairs the Dockside Metro Station from here on in.

 

This photo taken by my brother-in-law last night. Will be in Victoria next week awaiting move-in date.

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[Mike K.]

Yeah! That looks great.

[Mike K.]

Can anyone confirm, whether both the condo towers have completed, or if only one has completed and occupancy will be at a different date for the second? I think the rental is still u/c, no?

[boomboombarrie]

Can anyone confirm, whether both the condo towers have completed, or if only one has completed and occupancy will be at a different date for the second? I think the rental is still u/c, no?

First tower occupancy early September and Second tower occupancy late September/early October. Tower 3 is looking like it will not be open for rentals until early 2024. 

[Mike K.]

Ten-4!

And just so we’re all on the same page, which of the three towers is the rental?

[boomboombarrie]

The tallest one is rentals. It is also a different design from the other two towers (greenish paneling on the outside) and is the closest one to Esquimalt Rd. 

[Mike K.]

Got it, thank you. I thought that was the case but then second guessed myself because of the taller height.

[boomboombarrie]

FYI - I am in Tower 2 and was given a possession date of Sept 22. So it looks like the moves are beginning!

[Victoria Watcher]

Victoria city council has approved a development permit for nearly 300 units of housing in two new towers at Dockside Green.

 

Council was unanimous in moving the two residential towers forward for the corner of Tyee and Esquimalt roads, though some councillors bemoaned the lack of commercial space in the plans.

 

“I do think that there was a big missed opportunity here for mixed-use,” said Coun. Jeremy Caradonna, noting the master development agreement signed for the Dockside Green project did not require much commercial space.

 

“My concern is, and probably will remain for a while, that we are building a condo dead zone in Vic West, where there’s a lot of people living there, but it still feels like a ghost town.”

 

Caradonna said he understands future phases of the Dockside neighbourhood will contain more commercial space, which he said would better connect the project to downtown.

 

Coun. Matt Dell echoed the concerns, noting there’s going to be a lot of people living in the area and in 20 or 30 years it will be a very dense and vibrant neighbourhood.

 

“And we’re going to want to have a lot of commercial, restaurants, cafés to support that,” he said.

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...n-light-7525386

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think more and more condo-dwellers just order up Skip.

 

https://www.theglobe...ure-of-transit/

 

 

 

 

On most weekend nights, the last commuter trains out of Toronto are packed with the delivery riders and their bikes, heading home to the suburbs.

 

This is a new kind of commuter for Ontario’s GO Transit, which has lost many of its traditional office-bound passengers since the pandemic began. Instead of welcoming the e-bike brigade, agency staff sometimes choose to hassle them by strictly enforcing the limit of two bikes per train car.

 

There’s no doubt that these bikes are bulky and could pose a problem if they blocked train doors. But the callous treatment of couriers is at odds with the welcome mat GO rolls out for touring cyclists, who can take the train to wine country with their bikes riding in a specially adapted car full of racks.

 

Beyond poor manners, the crackdown on e-bikes speaks to a larger failure of GO Transit to imagine the future of commuting. An agency that has long assumed its passengers would drive to the station should be encouraging people who arrive by bike, including by letting them bring their wheels on board. Why doesn’t every GO train include a special car equipped to carry bikes?

 

In response to social media reports that some riders were stranded at Toronto’s downtown station overnight after being prohibited from boarding, the agency did say it was working to provide more on-board bike options. Good news, but this shouldn’t have taken a PR black eye.

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘There are too many bikes’: A sharp rise in the number of food couriers commuting into Toronto’s core has left GO Transit struggling — and the workers scrambling

 

https://www.thestar....5868409bac.html

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 September 2023 - 09:20 AM.

[Nparker]

Have either of these councillors noticed the significant number of vacant commercial spaces in nearly every new condo/rental development built downtown in the past decade?

[aastra]

 

Coun. Matt Dell echoed the concerns, noting there’s going to be a lot of people living in the area and in 20 or 30 years it will be a very dense and vibrant neighbourhood.

"And we’re going to want to have a lot of commercial, restaurants, cafés to support that," he said.

 

300 units equates to what? Maybe another 500 people if we're lucky? Meanwhile, all by themselves the Hudson district buildings contain just shy of 1,000 units distributed across six buildings on a mere block-and-a-half, and right downtown. And yet there are still longstanding commercial vacancies in the immediate vicinity.

 

Going forward I think Dockside Green and other developments should be minimizing the commercial space and restricting commercial units only to the most strategic or otherwise logical/expected spots. In the case of Vic West in particular, does it even make sense to desire (for example) another supermarket or large grocery store with Save-On foods right there?

 

Don't get me wrong, I like the options, the variety, and the "places of interest" that only commercial operations can provide, but as Nparker reminds us, Victorians don't seem to be able to support the spaces that already exist.

[Victoria Watcher]

Yup.

[Matt R.]

The Market Garden is so well poised to take advantage here.

[Mike K.]

Save Ons is very busy, a second grocery store would be great.

Won’t there be a large commercial component further east on Esq at Harbour?

[aastra]

 

The Market Garden is so well poised to take advantage here.

 

They parachuted into the neighbourhood at the right time.

[Mike K.]

Yes, it’s quite the operation.

[MarkoJ]

FYI - I am in Tower 2 and was given a possession date of Sept 22. So it looks like the moves are beginning!

 

Getting my keys October 4th, tower 2 as well.

[MarkoJ]

300 units equates to what? Maybe another 500 people if we're lucky? Meanwhile, all by themselves the Hudson district buildings contain just shy of 1,000 units distributed across six buildings on a mere block-and-a-half, and right downtown. And yet there are still longstanding commercial vacancies in the immediate vicinity.

 

In Zagreb, Croatia where I have a condo whenever a few hundred units go up somewhere a small grocery store (maybe size of Red Barn but not fancy or expensive) opens up in the neighborhood. Here people seem to like a huge stores and Costco. Different culture. 

 

I do wish we had more commercial in Vic West (where I live), but the vacant spaces don't lie. No appetite for it.