An early June application to the City of Toronto seeks a Zoning By-law Amendment to bring a 16-storey condominium development to the southwest corner of St Clair Avenue East and Birchmount Road, a short distance east of Warden subway station. The proposal from Atria Development for 3431 St Clair East calls for an A & Architects-designed building, the latest in a series of redevelopments in various stages of…

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,…

Catalyzed by a perfect storm of a 2017-opened subway terminus and zoning policies that concentrate residential and employment lands around the new transit infrastructure, the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre (VMC) area is quickly taking shape as the latest ‘Downtown’ to be formed in the Greater Toronto Area. Recent development in this purpose-built, master-planned node has been concentrated north of Highway 7, though construction is…

Balcony glazing as a concept was initiated in the year 1978, when Lumon first started its international path towards better homes. Beginning as a small company in a remote town in Finland, the past 40 years of Lumon have taken the company on a journey of changing the modern city landscape. The value of balcony glazing has especially been realized…

The Mimico Triangle area of Etobicoke has been recognized as a priority “Regeneration Area” by the City of Toronto, spelling the end for several of the area’s low-rise industrial buildings. In their place, higher-density development will take better advantage of the adjacent Mimico GO station through greater population and employment density. Vandyk Properties is jumpstarting redevelopment of the area with their Grand Central Mimico (GCM) community….

“Steady as she goes.” It’s one of those songs that I know the words to (or at least the chorus…) but I couldn’t, for the life of me, tell you who sings it. I just looked it up: it’s The Raconteurs. I’ve never heard of them, so of course, I ended up deep in a Wikipedia rabbit hole, and low and…

Today’s Daily Photo features a view of Toronto’s Bathurst Street and Lake Shore Boulevard intersection. Captured at sunset, this view faces northeast towards the mixed-used ‘West Block Est. 1928, The LakeShore, and The LakeFront’ complex. In the foreground, a TTC streetcar’s distinctive red, white, and black finishes blur through the intersection in long exposure. Toronto’s Bathurst and Lake Shore intersection, image by…