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Ryerson Hosting Talk on Improving Yonge Street Public Realm
Despite condo-fication and rising rents affecting retail vitality, Yonge Street remains Toronto's most important thoroughfare. With the City of Toronto now in the process of redesigning Yonge to...
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Commercial Podium Levels Take Shape at Daniels Waterfront
The rebirth of Queens Quay East continues with a wave of new developments, adding residential density, offices, retail, and new public spaces to Toronto's waterfront. While some of these projects...
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Daniels Waterfront: New Funding for OCAD and George Brown
As the commercial phase of Daniels Waterfront - City of the Arts gradually joins Toronto's nascent East Bayfront skyline on Queens Quay, new information about the project's mixed-use programming is...
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Photo of the Day: QRC West
Recent growth in Toronto's Entertainment District has primarily taken the form of high-rise condominium towers, though one new development has contributed a major boost in office space for the...
View ArticleDaily Headlines: News from the Internet for January 25, 2017
Toronto artist attempts to make people see the beauty of Highway 401; Toronto developers accused of carrying out ‘stealth’ demolitions amid heritage-designation backlog; Dreaming of an affordable home...
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Explainer: Groundscrapers
This week, SkyriseCities''Explainer' series returns with an overview of the so-called 'groundscraper,' a neologism that's catching on as an emerging term in the urban vocabulary. Though not always as...
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Hurontario LRT: Cooksville GO Station to be Intermodal Hub
While municipal councils in Toronto, Brampton, and Hamilton have been divided on whether or not to accept full provincial funding for new LRT lines—parts of Metrolinx's The Big Move plan to expand...
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8-Tower Community Planned West of Kipling Station
In late July of last year, Pinnacle International's proposal for a 25-storey condominium on Etobicoke's Dundas Street West began to take shape through a Site Plan Application (SPA) to the City of...
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Hoarding Comes Down as Fuse2 Approaches Completion
Construction of Neudorfer Corporation's Fuse and Fuse2 Condos has continued to progress at Dupont and Lansdowne, with hoarding now removed from the base of the Barrett Architect-designed development's...
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Queen West Parking Lot (Finally) Making Way for Development
As products of Toronto's development boom go, the Sweeny &Co-designed QRC West is arguably one of the best. Standing at the intersection of Peter and Richmond, a gracefully intricate feat of...
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Growth To Watch for 2017: Etobicoke Centre and Bloor West
With three parts of Toronto now covered by our annual Growth To Watch For series, we are continuing our trip through the west side of the City. A few days ago, we published the Growth To Watch For...
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Photo of the Day: Winter Skate
Today's Photo of the Day shows a crowd enjoying a winter tradition in Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square. Submitted to our Flickr Pool by Bryan Bonnici, this view faces east across the square's busy...
View ArticleDaily Headlines: News from the Internet for January 26, 2017
Policy change needed to save Toronto heritage buildings; Toronto's Green Line linear park inches forward; Take a look inside MLSE’s fancy new Moss Park sports facility for kids; and more news:A coffee...
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Throwback Thursday: Front & Trinity Transformed in Corktown
This week's Throwback Thursday features the changing view, looking northwest across the intersection of Front & Trinity streets in Toronto's Corktown area.Back in January, 2006, the view from Front...
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A Community Takes Shape: Dunpar's Trafalgar Ridge in Oakville
As in Toronto, Oakville's population has been steadily increasing. While the desire to move into the centre of the city is being answered by new condominium and apartment towers, Upper Oakville's...
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Tight Market: TREB Releases Q4 2016 Condo and Rental Reports
Following up on Toronto Real Estate Board's (TREB) recent release of housing and commercial market figures for December 2016, two new TREB reports are shedding light on condominium and rental housing...
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Dundas BRT: the Missing Rapid Transit Line that's not Forgotten
Back in 2012 Metrolinx unveiled the "Next Wave", a series of rapid transit infrastructure projects that would form the next group of projects funded and completed as part of The Big Move. The Next Wave...
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LJM's Waterview Condos Takes Shape on Grimsby Lakefront
Just over 50 kilometres southwest of Toronto's shoreline, new developments are adding residential density to the Grimsby lakefront. Since starting construction in mid-2015, LJM Developments' Waterview...
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Tower-in-the-Park Infill Planned for Etobicoke's La Rose Avenue
Adding to the recent surge of infill developments for Toronto's mid-century apartment communities, the towers of Etobicoke's La Rose Avenue could be joined by a new seven-storey rental building....
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Photo of the Day: Yonge and Bloor's Towers
Today's Photo of the Day features a worm's-eye view showing the three towers of Toronto's Yonge and Bloor intersection. Submitted to our Flickr Pool by contributor matthewsmithphoto, this view shows...
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