The Stratford Festival, North America’s largest classical repertory theatre company, will reveal its new Tom Patterson Theatre at a virtual event this Thursday, June 10, at 7 PM via a live viewing party on its YouTube channel. The new building, embedded in a riverside garden setting in this picturesque southwestern Ontario town, is poised to become the heart of the Stratford…
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,…
In Scarborough’s West Hill area, Mutual Developments is catering to a wider demographic than typical Downtown Toronto condos at East Pointe Condominiums. On Kingston Road just east of Morningside Avenue, the 11-storey, Kohn Partnership Architects-designed building is set to bring 104 condominium units to a fast-growing neighbourhood attracting post-secondary students and young professionals, offering a range of layouts from 388 to 1,036 ft² in area and spanning one through three bedrooms, with prices starting from the $400,000s. …
A year of far-reaching changes brought about by an ongoing public health crisis are leading Toronto area developers to seek a wider range of health and safety features that can make buildings less vulnerable to future epidemics and pandemics. This has led to a boom in technologies that promote a safer, cleaner environment, including both emerging and already established air…
BIA calls on city to remove statue of Alexander Wood in Toronto’s gay village; Innovation, imagination, and adventure in Toronto’s laneways; Real estate prices expected to sharply increase this year, RBC says policy changes have done little to cool market; and more news: BIA calls on city to remove statue of Alexander Wood in Toronto’s gay village (CBC News) Drake partners with…
Here’s an interesting proposition for you… There’s a downtown condominium that has a suspect history, but which now has a clean bill of health. The sale prices in this building have been significantly impacted as a result of the “stigma,” but the rental prices have not. Let’s say that a 420 square foot, 1-bed, 1-bath in this building sells for $440,000 and…
It’s been a week of colourful sunsets in Toronto, including one featured in today’s Daily Photo. Captured by Forum contributor ML555, this shot faces south from above the Church and Adelaide intersection, showing the topped-out 65 King East office tower right of centre, and progress on the Sugar Wharf Phase 1 condo towers further to the south. Sunset view of Toronto,…
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