Geoff Gibson

The Jones Pearce team is growing again! Looking to hire a lawyer, ~2-4 years out, ideally with labour law experience. Pls circulate and contact me or @NinivJones for more details.

@brent_bellamy My hometown. Many challenges linger from the reinvention, but it sure helps to have one of the greatest lakes in the world at your doorstep, too.

Kenora, Ontario. A former mill town that reinvented itself through good urbanism and investment in the public realm.

@GairlochDev 👌

@GairlochDev @_archAlliance_ 👌

This look at 1414Bayview.com shows its confident, masterful design by @_archAlliance_ and a glimpse at the lush terraces that bridge with the green canopies of midtown Toronto.

Proud to have played a role in the development of this project and really excited to see it come to life. 🙌 @TheDanielsCorp @ColinBerman @BrookMcIlroyInc

@shawnmicallef Always pleases me to see this lot. Perpetually reaching.

@donnelly_b @godspeedbrewery @nytrick Same day too 💪

They deliver @godspeedbrewery

@IFrank_GIS Didn’t even need the stubbed toe my friend. Hope you’re keeping well 👍

I feel like we’re all one stubbed toe away from a breakdown.

Basically this entire thread 👌

@glynbowerman @michaelpoos Allow development to happen in places other than on beloved commercial streets. What’s happening is a direct outcome of planning policy.

@lori10habs Wings are pretty good! Decent sandwich and burgers too. Habs night pint specials 👌

Where am I watching the #habs game?

@g_meslin Maybe if all these projects weren’t constrained to only being developed on major streets, the traffic impacts wouldn’t be felt so keenly. Consequences of conscious decisions. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I know everything is #Yellowbelt to me, but I have a hard time seeing how we can rule out meaningful intensification in most of the city, and yet also complain when construction of tall projects on constrained infill sites requires lane closures.

@davidcapizzano @tasdesignbuild Only thing is..it ain’t us 🤷🏻‍♂️

466 Dovercourt (former Matador) by @tasdesignbuild and Axia Design looking delicious.

@PlannerSean The old @GairlochDev stacked town site on Lawrence? Still a travesty of a process to this day.

Of course, this was for a site that was previously proposed for like stacked towns or something, a very short walk from a Yonge subway, on a major street. CoA refused and OMB refused, so new owners proposed semis… and still had to appeal.

-Developer proposes to sever a lot into 2 to build semis. -Zoning explicitly permits semis, and lots needed no variances. -City objects saying “doesn’t meet the OP test” for variances. -CoA refuses, developer appeals -TLAB is like “WHY ARE WE HERE? Approved.” Zoning matters

@PlannerSean @GreggLintern Can confirm - have seen a few while on a dog walk at Cherry beach - they were a surprising, and big(!), sight to behold.

@GreggLintern … seriously?

35 cruise ships visited Toronto in 2019 double the number in 2018. Take that Miami.

@benmyers29 @hullmark_prez @tasdesignbuild

In terms of coolness, Hullmark and TAS are killin’ it these days @hullmark_prez @tasdesignbuild

@RodneyWilts @ZASArchitects Thanks Rodney, appreciate it. I am too (I mean.. I am about all my projects, but this one in particular).

@gruffgibson @ZASArchitects Sweet project Geoff. Excited to see it come to life.

Very proud of our team for this little project; truly excited about what it can mean for the future of mid-rise, and mixed-use, in Toronto. Big🙌to Suulin Architects and @ZASArchitects.

“What matters is the mix.” A new Toronto development challenges the dull formula theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto…

Very pleasantly surprised by the Ottawa train station today. Peak Canadian modernism, and good planning with the new LRT station steps away.