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,…
Over a year into this new way of life, we have collectively shifted from mostly in-person interactions to online ordering and deliveries. With the Greater Toronto Area’s proportion of high-rise and multi-family building dwellers only growing with time, the pandemic is putting increased strain on high-rise residential buildings’ staff responsibility and parcel storage capacity. Solutions like automated parcel lockers have been…
As work wraps up on the first phase at Hines and Ivanhoé Cambridge CIBC SQUARE office complex in Downtown Toronto, the early stages of construction are advancing on the second. Designed by UK-based WilkinsonEyre Architects with Toronto’s Adamson Associates, the first of the complex’s matched pair of towers—turned at near angles to each other—now stands 49 storeys tall over the northeast corner of Bay and Lake Shore. We…
Justin Trudeau government’s support for underground Eglinton West LRT undermines climate change fight, say critics; Scarborough subway starts ‘major’ work in June, tunnelling next year, province says; Landlords wait on tens of thousands in unpaid rent due to ‘exhausting’ Ontario board delays; and more news: Justin Trudeau government’s support for underground Eglinton West LRT undermines climate change fight, say critics (Toronto Star)…
Toronto’s Financial District is not looking quite as busy as it did before the pandemic, though a return to normal is gradually bringing life back to the streets of Canada’s economic heart. In today’s Daily Photo, shot by Forum contributor Bjays92, we are shown a view facing north on Bay Street from just south of King Street West. Bay Street in…
Revisions have been made to a 2019 proposal on an Etobicoke property a couple blocks west of Humber College’s Lakeshore Campus at 3353 Lake Shore Boulevard West, where developer Apria is seeking an Official Plan amendment and rezoning from the City of Toronto to create an Icon Architects-designed 6 storey mixed-use building. Proposed is 5,382 m² of gross floor area (GFA) on a 1,410 m² site, with…
In the wake of developer Cresford’s financial troubles in 2020, a number of their active high-rise projects in Downtown Toronto were sold off. Among them was Halo Residences, a 38-storey condominium tower on Yonge Street north of College. The project was well under construction when it was acquired by QuadReal Property Group in a sale approved in September, 2020. QuadReal have moved forward with construction…
As Toronto’s inner suburbs evolve, so too does infrastructure. Having been developed extensively with car-loving low-rise buildings in the middle of the 20th century, wide roads were king, and where three of them met in the centre of Etobicoke, the pedestrian-unfriendly flyovers of the Six Point Interchange was the answer, named for its spaghetti-like meeting of Dundas Street West, Kipling Avenue,…
These Toronto neighborhoods see rent prices drop by nearly 40 per cent; Torontonians applying for social housing to escape domestic violence soar during COVID-19; Renters under pressure in Canada’s active home resale market as owners look to cash in; and more news: These Toronto neighborhoods see rent prices drop by nearly 40 per cent (CTV News) Torontonians applying for social housing to…
As a 40-year-old man, I can personally attest to just how interesting the child-parent relationship is. I’ve rounded that corner – the one where you cease to become the one who needs to be provided for, and instead, becomes the provider. Many of you can relate, and from a variety of ages, I’m sure. Watching my mother or my father…
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