A new condominium tower is rising at the meeting point of Toronto’s Entertainment District and Fashion District areas, with Peter and Adelaide climbing into the air beside both of the streets it is named for. The 47-storey BBB Architects-designed condo tower for Graywood Developments is ascending with a unique footprint, its base wrapping around Sonder’s The Slate Hotel and a two-storey heritage building at 342 Adelaide West. Looking…

Today’s Daily Photo comes to us from Forum contributor globalexpress, who captured anticrepuscular or antisolar rays over Toronto’s Port Lands area. The sunset view shows the new Commissioners Street Bridge left of centre, and the angular, concrete form of the Cherry Street Stormwater Management Facility in the left foreground. Toronto’s Port Lands, image by Forum contributor globalexpress Want to see your…

A mixed-use community has been proposed in North York on the lands of Tyndale University, a Christian seminary that backs onto Don Valley ravine. The proposal comes from Markee Developments, a new company formed by Jennifer Keesmaat, Toronto’s former Chief Planner and Jason Marks, former CEO of Shiplake Properties. The proposed development, dubbed Tyndale Green, retains the University as a…

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,…

All along the future route of Toronto’s Crosstown LRT, new high-density developments are popping up near the stations. These areas that have seen little redevelopment over recent decades, have left properties that are ripe for the larger population that the LRT will be able to transport quickly. Among the office parks and big box retail centres of Eglinton Avenue East in…

Bond yields are moving up, but trends, from US in particular, will also impact where Canadian fixed mortgage rates go. Last week was a slow one on the mortgage news front, so this post will be shorter than normal.  The key question on everyone’s mind was how financial markets would react to the US Federal Reserve’s slightly more hawkish tilt….

The Hurontario LRT will soon provide rail transit along Mississauga’s primary north/south thoroughfare, and the promise of it coming into service in a few years is fostering a vertical growth spurt along this corridor through the centre of the city west of Toronto. Just south of Square One, Solmar Development Corporation’s new Edge Towers community is bringing a trio of Roy Varacalli-designed towers to a site…

Between the comments on TRB posts and the reader-mail I receive on a daily basis, I’m never without opinions, challenges, and insights. Of course, somewhere therein lays topics for blog posts, and today is an example of exactly that. Every week, I hear from at least a dozen people who aren’t in the market for real estate, but have something…