TD Bank

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• Seeing that block torn down makes me very sad. In fact, I had my wedding reception upstairs at Patrick O'Ryans a month before they closed the doors.

  It reminds me of how I felt when they tore down Fast Eddy's for Riverside One.

• very cool, i missed taking during that time it came down. owen really wants to hang out with us next time we go shooting, so hope we can go shooting again soon. unfortunately we were sitting at opposite ends of the table tonight. i was listening to the Cable 11 story on this before i left for the meeting tonight.

• The only good thing to come out of this is the 51 new underground parking spots from the report that are badly needed in downtown...

  I wonder if they're gonna be as quick to build so they can start paying property taxes like the new Burger King at Goyeau. I can't even believe they've already wood framed the wall and roof for BK, even in these extreme colds we've been having... Petratta is like the slowest construction company on the planet. Weren't they the ones who took forever with the casino addition? It wouldn't surprise me if they were somehow involved with EC Rowe.

• Council folded like a card house to Petretta's desire to ignore the need for the daylight corner on this building. Makes me wonder why we even have paid staff at city hall if they can just arbitrarily ignore the recommendations of the experts for shit like this.

  Cities these days aren't even allowing banks to be built in their downtown. There's no commercial/retail on the main floor to promote vibrancy. Here, we'll take what we can get!

  All of them - it was a unanimous vote - said (and I am paraphrasing) "we should be happy we have any development at all in our downtown. Welcome to Windsor, City of crumbs.

• Just read the third page of today's Star, where Petretta told Council that this three storey hunk of junk will cost between $15-20 million. How do they even come up with these numbers?

• What is a daylight corner?

• You are right Chris about the ideology of "we take only what we can get". Which is a bunch of hogwash! But we do need banks downtown because the city scares white collar business out of the downtown. They have done it numerous times with Green Shield being the largest business to run away even though their desire was to be downtown.

  Rich a daylight corner is an angled corner for better visibility and walkability. Instead of the 90 degree corner on the building it would have an angle cut across it. This may reduce the footprint byt a few square metres but that is all. Of course council caved like they always do. Folks, now you know why our downtown looks like watery porridge coughed up from the bowels of hell. What is the point of recommendations when these arm-chair idiots wave away guidelines and smart development.

• Blech. This thing is a mess. Looks like some kind of mutant arts-and-crafts/techno mish-mash. Wouldn't guess it was a bank but for the TD on it, could be a hair salon. How about some columns, something suggesting permanence? That is why banks were built to grand standards in the past. Don't worry, this one will be torn down in less time than the old building.

• It does look rather horrible, doesn't it? More bleak streetscapes. Trying to console myself that at least the glass is going to be clear and not that ugly green stuff, or worse, the reflective pink that so many architects vomited upon hapless downtowns in the nineties.

• I bet that it will be glass and grey or metallic in nature. every new building downtown seems to be the colour of grey or metal. I didn't realize that downtown was the new prison.

  Andrew, you forgot to say bank "tower" like our local media does. Though I never knew a "tower" was only 3 stories. Such sensationalism over nothing...