Tridel is continuing through Toronto’s planning approvals process on its path to redevelop a site at Dupont and Shaw streets, replacing a sprawling Sobeys supermarket and parking lot with a sizeable mixed-use building. In December 2020, it submitted a revised Site Plan Approval application (SPA) for 840 Dupont Street, just east of Ossington. Aerial view looking North-East. Image by Turner Fleischer Architects…

I’ll be honest here: I had originally selected a different photo for today’s blog. While searching with the “weather” theme, I found a beautiful photo of a giant lightning bolt striking down from the sky, with city lights below.   But then I thought, “Maybe people won’t see the beauty that I see?  Maybe they’ll see the dark, gloomy, depressing side…