Following the 2018 approval of a proposed tower at 150 Eglinton Avenue East in Midtown Toronto, the Madison Group — developers behind Capitol Residences and Nobu Residences Toronto — has expanded its landholdings on the block east of Yonge Street and has resubmitted applications to the City, now seeking a redevelopment that reflects the larger assembly of properties. The new submission for…
Heritage Toronto has announced the nominees for the 2021 Heritage Toronto Awards, the longest-running awards of such a type in Canada and recognizes nominees for their contributions to Toronto’s heritage. The work being honoured this year spans the past two years, due to the 2020 cancellation of the awards. The organization has introduced a new award in the Built Heritage category this year:…
There is much to suggest that rates will remain low – provided borrowers can tolerate the risk. Fixed-rate mortgages offer stability, but variable-rate mortgages come with lower starting rates and, in most cases, produce net saving over the full term. When the spread between fixed and variable rates is narrow (or non-existent) most borrowers lean toward fixed rates, but…
With the challenges that we face currently due to Covid, and with working from home remaining our reality for the foreseeable future, many buyers are seeing the benefit of living beyond Toronto’s sprawl and in close proximity to nature more than ever before. While some developers are just now taking notice, MDM Developments, a prominent developer across Central Ontario, has…
Nearly four months after its ground floor was laid in Downtown Toronto, above grade construction of SickKids Hospital’s new Patient Support Centre (PSC) at 175 Elizabeth Street has taken off. The 22-storey building designed by B+H Architects has been under construction since its October, 2019 ground breaking, and now sits four storeys above grade. Looking southeast across the site of…
Ontario science table member resigns, alleges that modelling data ‘projects a grim fall’; Fully vaccinated Toronto council supports forcing city staff to get protected from COVID-19; Toronto remains under heat warning as humid weather continues; and more news. Ontario science table member resigns, alleges that modelling data ‘projects a grim fall’ (CTV News) Economic rebound in the lurch as COVID-19′s Delta variant…
Until now, Ontarians who own land could have legally been made to maintain public roads – not a job most are equipped for. Ontario has finally repealed a law — after a 200-year delay — which even today requires landowners to perform road work for local townships. Two years after the province of Upper Canada was established in 1791, one of the…
“David: don’t make this blog political.” That’s what I told myself each and every time I wrote parts of the blog in my head over the last seven days. As I wrote on my blog last week, I was away in Prince Edward County, somewhere between Albury and Redernsville, and I didn’t have much of an outlet for my thoughts…
We see a lot of photos of Toronto from the air that were taken in… well, Toronto, but our skyline shows up for many more miles beyond our city limits. In this case, we see Toronto’s skyline across Lake Ontario from the Skylon Tower in Niagara Falls, on an orange-hued evening earlier this summer when UT Forum contributor Marcanadian snapped some shots. Toronto…
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