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Old Posted Jul 24, 2013, 6:46 PM
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Originally Posted by red_179 View Post
Also with regards to the parking availability, it sounds like Streetside and Sunstone themselves were the ones that pulled out of the James Avenue Parkade, so it would be pretty disingenuous of them to blame the City for not providing parking.
The problem (well not the only one but....) with the Streetside and Sunstone project was the provision from the province to add a residential and commercial component to the parkade. I heard about the stages as it was being developed and they just couldn't make the numbers work budget wise. Before it fell apart it was huge, I heard very expensive $30 - $50 million and possibly 10 to 20 storeys tall. It was much more that just a parkade.

It will likely now result in just that, a parkade for about 400-500 vehicles.
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