Historically, Toronto has always been a city dotted with places of worship. Once upon a time, the tallest structures in the city were church steeples, piercing through the tree canopy in nearly every neighbourhood of the city. But since the late twentieth-century, dwindling attendance has put many of these churches in financial peril, with increasing numbers having to shut their doors and either…
The CIBC SQUARE office complex by Hines and Ivanhoé Cambridge continues to make progress in Downtown Toronto’s financial district. Designed by UK-based WilkinsonEyre Architects with Toronto’s Adamson Associates, the complex will consist of a matched pair of towers that will stand almost perpendicular to each other. The south tower, which recently began to welcome tenants, stands 49 storeys above the corner of Bay and Lake Shore, while the north tower, for which…
Welcome to this month’s instalment of Dear Urbaneer, where we tackle real estate queries put to us by our ever-inquisitive readers. This time I’m corresponding with a property owner who is being impacted by new development near her Hunstville, Ontario home and has concerns around what that might do to the values of her property and her neighbourhood. Dear…
Welcome to this month’s instalment of Dear Urbaneer, where we tackle real estate queries put to us by our ever-inquisitive readers. This time I’m corresponding with a property owner who is being impacted by new development near her Hunstville, Ontario home and has concerns around what that might do to the values of her property and her neighbourhood. Dear…
Why US authorities are going slow on winding up Covid economic responses – and how our mortgage rates will be affected. Last Friday US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell delivered his much-anticipated speech at the Jackson Hole symposium, an annual global conference for central bankers, finance ministers, academics, and prominent investors. In the lead up, the market consensus…
Construction of Lifetime Developments’ Liberty Market Tower is nearing completion in Toronto’s Liberty Village neighbourhood. It is the final phase of the long-term redevelopment of the six-acre Liberty Market Complex. The 28-storey mixed-use building was designed by Wallman Architects, with the first condo residents expected to move in towards the end of this year. Wedge-shaped east end of Liberty Market Tower, image by Forum contributor Domenico…
With September approaching, how safe is your child’s elementary school?; Local businesses expect subdued TIFF to generate fewer sales, less foot traffic; Trudeau says he won’t back down after protesters hurl death threats, racist and sexist slurs; and more news. With September approaching, how safe is your child’s elementary school? (Toronto Star) The future never really took shape for Toronto’s whimsical cube…
Serendipity. I could have played off that theme for today’s blog post and I wouldn’t have been off base. My client, who will be the subject of today’s blog, used the term “meant to be” several times over the last few days, as we both questioned whether or not there was such a thing. Kismet, karma, fate, luck, chance……….coincidence? Some…
Today’s Daily Photo was taken my UrbanToronto Flickr Pool contributor Matthew Smith, recently posted to the pool, but taken way back in 2018. Here sunlight pours through the coloured glass on sides of the balconies at The College Condominium, a Tribute Communities project that was designed by Core Architects. A T&T Supermarket was recently opened at ground level in the…
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