Tell us again why this place is smart? The architecture of the SmartCentres outdoor commercial site at Laird Drive and and Wicksteed Ave. has been much criticized. Now SmartCentres is applying to develop the land it owns north of Wicksteed and is promising to do a much better job of making the new development attractive and livable. Many will be skeptical. The feeling is widespread that Toronto bought a turkey when it approved the present centre. The architecture is neo-Soviet. Altogether it has as much charm as a prison yard. The city should tell SmartCentres to start over .
Thanks Poster One and Rudy. i’m the nice people at SmartCentres don’t have any Stalinist inclinations — they just built a load of garbage that’s all.
soviet? i don’t know about that
i was in there today, at the lcbo, and nobody asked to see my identification
They are “smart” because they are medium term pop-up stores. Twenty years and they are gone, replaced by a giant condo.