Built in 1905, the Canadian Niagara Power Company Generating Station in Niagara Falls just outside of Toronto’s sprawl, has been restored and renovated to become an entertaining and educational experience, along with a new nighttime attraction. Its grand opening is today, September 3, 2021. The one-of-a-kind structure is considered to be the only fully intact, decommissioned hydroelectric power plant of its…

Home buyers routinely go for stressful and inefficient plays in the strange game that is Toronto real estate – here’s what to do instead. Recently, I tweeted about bidding wars and what agents and clients alike need to know. To be honest, I could do without bidding wars as an agent. They are stressful on either side – both for…

QuadReal Property Group have submitted updated Site Plan Approval application materials to the City of Toronto for a new tower at the Commerce Court site at King and Bay streets. The 64-storey building will be situated on the east side of the site, where the 5-storey Commerce Court South (CCS) building and the 13-storey Commerce Court East (CCE) are currently located. Façade…

North of Toronto’s Finch subway station, the former Newtonbrook Plaza site at Yonge and Cummer in North York will be the future home of a mixed-use community from Aoyuan International known as M2M Condos, a five-building, Wallman Architects-designed complex. The community’s first pair of towers are now well underway at the site’s south end, to rise 34 and 36 storeys from a shared podium that will contain office, retail,…

When a title insurer pays a referral fee to a lawyer for arranging a policy on a client’s property purchase, who should get the benefit of the fee — the lawyer or the client? For more than 20 years, some Ontario title insurance companies have been paying lawyers a fee for the legal work involved in placing title insurance policies…

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Today’s Daily Photo on UrbanToronto wasn’t taken in Toronto, but in Niagara Falls of the shuttered Toronto Power Generating Station. UT Forum contributor Marcanadian snapped this photo of the E.J. Lennox-designed building at the beginning of August. The majestic Beaux Arts 1906-opened facility has been one of two shuttered power generation facilities along the Niagara River Parkway just above the Falls,…