With five million square feet of available space across 47 office towers, downtown Toronto is becoming a tenant’s paradise - and an investor’s potential nightmare

  • @[email protected]
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    98 months ago

    So you take an empty office tower. Make the first two floors shops and services and the remaining floors housing and voila you have in instant walkable community.

    • @vegantomato
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      78 months ago

      Office spaces can be turned into housing as long as they are not too deep, otherwise many rooms will end up without windows and sun light.

      • @[email protected]
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        38 months ago

        I don’t understand the issue of bedrooms without a window. I once lived in a tiny studio apartment with a windowless bedroom. The total dark and silence gave me the best undisturbed sleep I ever had.

          • @[email protected]
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            48 months ago

            If I exit my bedroom through the window I fall to my death. Not sure how that helps me in a fire.

            • Octospider
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              38 months ago

              Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?

            • @model_tar_gz
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              18 months ago

              That worked out ok for one of the 9/11 jumpers. Maybe you could be the next one!