I met with Shane Fenton at the sales office for Motif last week. He and his father run Reserve Properties, which has multiple projects across Toronto. Shane has been hanging out in the Ossington area for a few years, and when the site at Ossington and Rebecca became available, they jumped at the chance to take it over. He is a big fan of the neighbourhood and believes in creating unique residences suited to people that want to experience the neighbourhood.

Fittingly, the architect behind the project, Roland Rom Colthoff of RAW Design, is a local who understands what the living options are and what is missing. In a recent article about the building, he points out that the buyers at Motif “…are people that would have bought a Victorian in the neighbourhood, but would have to renovate it.”

Of course, I had to ask Shane what his favourite spots are on Ossington. His answer? Pizza Libretto and Levack Block, but, like all of us, he likes the variety.

So, for people who are looking to move into our neighbourhood, Motif still has some towns and lofts. Future plans include creating more townhomes on Givins, behind Ossington.

There’s some great pieces in there  – definitely tune into the 9 minutes mark for Michael Sims talk about the school board which offered some pretty shocking and interesting information. On that same topic, it’s also worth checking out another question on the same topic of the school board at  1:14:45 where the same topic rattled Mike Layton.

Each of candidates presented well and there were fire and passion in all of them. There are some great other snippets. What was your favourite part?

We’ll post more on the highlights of the debate tomorrow.