Sales Centre Gone as Work Begins for 50 at Wellesley Station
offA new addition will soon take shape in Toronto's Church-Wellesley Village, as construction is about to begin at the site of Plaza's 50 at Wellesley Station. As the name implies, the 37-storey,...
View ArticleYMCA Proposed at Richmond Street Waterworks Site to Accommodate Growing Ward...
offToronto's building boom brings cranes, dust, and a 7 AM to 7 PM din of construction noises to the downtown core and its periphery. It also prompts the question, "Do we actually have enough people to...
View ArticleGround Broken for 29-storey River City 3 in West Don Lands
offThe Blue Jays' series-winning victory was not the only event being celebrated in Toronto last night, as developer UrbanCapital hosted an evening ground breaking ceremony at the site of the third...
View ArticlePhoto of the Day: Baseball Fever
offThe Toronto Blue Jays' dramatic victory over the Texas Rangers on Wednesday night secured the team a spot in the American League Championship Series, which starts this evening in Kansas City. In...
View ArticleDaily Headlines: News From the Internet for October 16, 2015
off5 subtle signs of lost rivers in Toronto; How muck from the mouth of the Don River becomes new land for the Leslie Street Spit; New fully digital Humber River Hospital aims to be a model; and more...
View ArticleSponsored Post: The Condo Act Amendments - What It Will Mean to You
offAfter three years of consultations, studies, and legal drafting, the Ontario Provincial Legislature's introduced the long-awaited Bill 106: a set of official amendments to the decade-and-a-half-old...
View ArticleBerczy Park Revitalization Work Now in Full Swing
offSince our previous update a few weeks ago, the Claude Cormier + Associés-designed revitalization of Berczy Park has kicked into full swing. Over the past few weeks, several of the park's less...
View ArticleTREB Releases Third Quarter 2015 Housing Figures
offAccording to the recently released Q3 housing report from the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB), condominium sales have exhibited strong year-over-year growth in 2015's third quarter. Overall sales...
View ArticlePreviewing the Retail Spaces at Great Gulf's One Bloor East
offNow rising high above the Yonge-Bloor skyscrapers around it, One Bloor East is the tallest—and perhaps the most talked about—of Toronto's current construction projects. Yet, while Great Gulf's...
View ArticleLawrence Heights Demolition Kicks Off Largest Redevelopment Project in TCHC...
offOn the morning of Tuesday, October 13th, the demolition—and revitalization—of Lawrence Heights began. Standing over the site, John Tory experienced one of the "proudest days" of his mayoralty as the...
View ArticlePhoto of the Day: Incoming
offA dramatic week in Canadian sports and politics has been accompanied by some dramatic weather. In today's Photo of the Day, which was submitted to the UrbanToronto Flickr Pool by Giulio Cosmo...
View ArticleDaily Headlines: News From the Internet for October 19, 2015
offTTC considers legal action over Bombardier streetcar delays; Work of saving Lawrence Heights begins with demolition; Playing Fast and Loose With SmartTrack; and more news...Work of saving Lawrence...
View ArticleFollowing One Bloor's Concrete 76 Storeys Above Toronto
offWhile the exterior construction progress of Great Gulf's One Bloor East has garnered significant attention throughout the City, the interior of the building houses one of the project's most...
View ArticleExcavation Complete at Colours of Emerald City
offNew, higher density projects around important transportation nodes is a key feature of transit-oriented development. Though most Toronto development continues to be centred in and around Downtown, a...
View ArticlePreviewing Life Inside the Trump Tower's Super Penthouse
offHigh atop the Trump International Hotel and Tower, one of Toronto's most impressive spaces sits awaiting a purchaser. Spanning the upper three levels of the 58-storey tower, the "Super Penthouse"...
View ArticlePhoto of the Day: Into the City
offToday's Photo of the Day, which was submitted to the UrbanToronto Flickr Pool by Michael Muraz, takes us high above Toronto's Entertainment District in the recently-occupied Theatre Park building on...
View ArticleDaily Headlines: News From the Internet for October 20, 2015
offTrudeau emerges as political force in own right, out from father's shadow; Toronto Mayor John Tory calls Trudeau a champion of cities; Where does a new Liberal government get started?; and more...
View ArticleConstruction Under Way at Dunpar's Trafalgar Ridge in Oakville
offConstruction work has officially begun at the site of Trafalgar Ridge, a new townhome community in Oakville from developer Dunpar Homes. Work officially kicked off last month with a groundbreaking...
View ArticleRevamped Riverside Square Bringing Public Space to Queen East
offWhen we last wrote about Streetcar Developments' and Dream's Riverside Square in December 2014, the project was going through the City's planning review process which analyzed how the ambitious new...
View ArticleAmerican Society of Architectural Illustrators Gather in Toronto
offLast week, the American Society of Architectural Illustrators (ASAI) came together in Toronto, host city for the Boston-headquartered ASAI's 30th annual meeting. From October 14-18, the ASAI took...
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