Choice Properties has submitted Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendment applications to the City of Toronto to redevelop their Loblaws store along with adjacent properties on Broadview Avenue south of Danforth Avenue. We spoke with a number of the people involved with the planning of the project to get their take on it, starting with Joe Svec, Vice President of Development…
Heritage Toronto has released its list of nominees for the 2021 Heritage Toronto Awards, the longest-running heritage awards in Canada. This year’s nominations include 47 nominees being recognized for their contributions to Toronto’s heritage across four categories; Book, Built Heritage, Community Heritage, and Public History. We recently did a story on all nine of the the Built Heritage nominations. The Community Heritage category features 11 volunteer-based…
The Artworks Tower and Artsy Boutique Condos complex from The Daniels Corporation has made significant progress Toronto’s Regent Park neighbourhood, rising quickly on the northwest corner of Dundas Street East and River Street. Under construction since the end of 2018, the BDP Quadrangle and Kirkor Architects-designed development’s pair of buildings are making steady progress towards heights of 33 and 11 storeys, rising from a shared three-storey podium. We last…
Davpart’s The United BLDG is still in the early stages of construction in Downtown Toronto. At this point that doesn’t mean new work on this complicated project, but rather mostly means demolition and gutting for now, while at the northeast corner of the block at University Avenue and Dundas Street, structural shoring caissons have been removed since our July update, and as…
All Toronto schools to get faster, easier take-home COVID testing kits within weeks of starting class; Liberals say they’ll bring in a rent-to-own program, but what will it do for Toronto’s housing crisis?; Ontario government ignored warnings before bungled blue licence plate rollout; and more news. All Toronto schools to get faster, easier take-home COVID testing kits within weeks of starting class…
Be honest: did you get into Bob Ross about four or five years ago when “The Joy of Painting” appeared on Neftlix? I sure did. I remember watching his show on TVO in the mid-1980’s. The guy could create a beautiful painting from scratch in a half-hour episode, but even more impressive was that afro of his! More memorable too. In…
Today, UrbanToronto’s Daily Photo was taken by our Forum contributor greg.cooke, focusing on the towers of Etobicoke’s growing Humber Bay Shores skyline as beautifully reflected in the waters of the eponymous bay, along the Lake Ontario shoreline. The towers of Humber Bay Shores reflected in the waters of Lake Ontario, image by UT Forum contributor greg.cooke Want to see your…
Today, UrbanToronto’s Daily Photo was taken by our Forum contributor greg.cooke, focusing on the towers of Etobicoke’s growing Humber Bay Shores skyline as beautifully reflected in the waters of the eponymous bay, along the Lake Ontario shoreline. The towers of Humber Bay Shores reflected in the waters of Lake Ontario, image by UT Forum contributor greg.cooke Want to see your…
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