Daniel Kolanko

Commercial Real Estate Lawyer, Occasional Twitter User. I'm just here for the beer and the land use tweets

[Daniel Kolanko @DKolanko]

@awhimsicalchap HR today is usually the only person in a decision room that understands the ESA. Every bad boss ever thinks they dont need HR because they exchange their idea of fairness for legal minimums.

'Abolish HR' always read to me like "I don't care about the law and I shouldnt have to"

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@yellowparenti In legal research, all citations get pinpointed to a paragraph or page. After law school I did an urban planning masters where research was in-text citation of (researcher, year) and good gravy was it ever worse. This alone made me doubt the veracity of half the papers I read.

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@sTYLz2021 @ApoStructura Ah! The landfill of 1880-1960 occured there but the downtown grew out onto it. If you stand out on that ferry terminal to Jersey City you'll see how this is all old industrial land infill where all the buildings were constructed in the last 40 years or so

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@ApoStructura The better comparisons are NA cities on navigable rivers. Pittsburgh, Nashville, Louisville downtown's are against the river banks. Cincinnati and St Louis are not, totally due to urban renewal efforts in the 60s (the Gateway Arch, stadiums)

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@2024dion I'm afraid the parking lots came before the stadiums, not the other way around. Little Caesars Stadium and Comerica Park were both built upon acreage of glorious asphalt

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@TheChaosWeeber Best part of this is Sudbury just catching a stray

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@RobCGalbraith The overwhelming majority of pollutants in Lake Erie comes from the algae blooms, which is a result of being a shallow lake with tons of phosphorus fertilizer run-off from the Thames River in Ontario. This has impacted the ecosystem to a far greater extent than anything else

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@KattyPerrysOGBF @ProudBavaria The thing is cold war and Vic3 have a ton of parallels - 5 nations carve up everything until they HAVE to fight - but Twitter makes fun of Vic3 because playing it well means only fighting lopsided wars which, well, yeah, is the whole point

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@crasswonder Calgary, famously, is Denver if there was nothing to do.

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The last bastion of this in Canada. Montreal had more cultural output than similar low-cost cities in the States because there is a lot of funders and wealth in the city notwithstanding rents. Detroit has the low rents but not the funders; LA has the funders but not the rents

[leora schertzer @leoraschertzer]

Montreal was once a haven of cheap rent and abundant real estate. One by one, warehouses populated with artist studios and DIY venues have been demolished and replaced with luxury condos, as real estate became increasingly competitive.

My story below ⬇️

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@nobodyknows2322 There are, maybe, 5 container ports of note in the US but people talk about harbour access like their playing Catan

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@JohnnyGiunta_ Surely this is somehow Little's fault

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@JohnnyGiunta_ What is Jays Twitter going to do now that they can't blame Little for having zero offense???

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@beepboop311 Amazing but the only thing more depressing is the "regional non-sun destination flights to the US" section of Pearson, down the funky ramp to the world's worst burger place. There's like five people in there and all of them are flying to Indianapolis, furious there's no good wifi

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@2024dion @PatrolSquadron The interesting ones are places like SLC and Denver, where the urban renewal projects are still there (i.e. I-25), but the city has gone out of its way to redevelop the associated infrastructure with them (parking lots around Union Station in both cities)

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@2024dion I think this is mostly right, but I think for every Park Slope in Brooklyn there's a Cass Corridor in Detroit. Often the urban renewal and population drop had such a huge effect that the historic nature of these neighbourhoods were converted to surface parking really quick

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@2024dion I love how density patterns around subway stations get averaged here to meet MTSAs. Cabbagetown and the Annex meet density minimums solely by drawing boundaries to include one or two massive proposed towers and like 300 single family homes

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@eliasmakos It's insane to me how the next two expansion teams are not Montreal and Mexico City. I've never seen an easier multi billion dollar layup in my life

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@GJMarshy Pheonix is, at best, a collection of houses in the desert with sufficient internal gravity to produce one (1) 30-story office building with a satellite office of Deloitte.