The inflation bogeyman has arrived – but does that mean higher mortgage rates? Last week we learned that the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) spiked to 4.2% in April, coming in well above the consensus forecast of 3.6% and marking its highest reading since September 2008. US core inflation, which strips out the more volatile CPI inputs like food and…
A redevelopment proposal for 1540 Bloor West in Toronto’s High Park North neighbourhood by the Trinity Development Group and Timbercreek Communities (since renamed Hazelview Investments) has been revised again. Located on the northwest corner of Bloor Street West and Dundas Street West, this site is adjacent to the Dundas West subway station, and across from The Crossways, a 29-storey twin-tower, mixed-use residential…
The global COVID-19 pandemic is having far-reaching effects in Toronto, including major impacts on the real estate and building industries. Many jobs and most events are currently suspended, postponed, or affected in other ways, though UrbanToronto is still operating at full strength with our team working remotely. As a means to keep the public in the loop about the shutdowns,…
The blocks surrounding Wilson subway station in the Toronto borough of North York are being rapidly filled out by a cluster of new residential developments, a handful of which are from developer Collecdev. The developer’s latest contribution to the area, known as Nordic Condos, recently started construction on a site a few hundred metres east of the subway station along Wilson Avenue,…
A new skyline presence is forming at Lake Shore Boulevard West and Windermere Drive, at the south end of Toronto’s Swansea neighbourhood. Diamante Development’s Mirabella Condominiums has been under construction since mid-2019, and its pair of 38-storey, Scott Shields Architects-designed towers are now steadily rising, each well on their way to final heights of just over 120 metres. Looking north to Mirabella on May 9, 2021,…
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June of 2017 seems like an eternity ago, doesn’t it? I know we’re all in that ho-hum mindset and have been for the last fourteen months, but even if you think back, pre-pandemic, doesn’t it just seem wild? June of 2017. In June of 2017, I had half as many children as I do now. In June of 2017, I’d…
Today’s Daily Photo highlights a unique Modernist school just west of Toronto’s Spadina Crescent. The Lord Lansdowne Public School was constructed in 1961, with a circular shape responding to its constrained site. Listed on Toronto’s Heritage Property Register since 1983, the school’s prominent circular building is seen in this aerial view by Forum contributor ADRM, facing northwest over the site towards the rising…
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