This summer, plans to redevelop a site just steps from Yonge-Dundas Square were revealed when Bazis filed Zoning By-law Amendment and Site Plan Control applications for a 30-storey mixed-use tower that would yield 287 condominium suites at 100 Bond Street on the edge downtown Toronto’s Garden District neighbourhood. Looking northeast towards 100 Bond, designed by Rosario Varacalli for Bazis The generally square subject site…

Welcome to this month’s installment of Dear Urbaneer, where I take on real estate questions from my inquisitive clients. This month, I am talking with a client who has set up a home office in her basement and is wondering about the wisdom of spending a great deal of time on her lower level.     Dear Urbaneer: I’ve been…

Welcome to this month’s installment of Dear Urbaneer, where I take on real estate questions from my inquisitive clients. This month, I am talking with a client who has set up a home office in her basement and is wondering about the wisdom of spending a great deal of time on her lower level.     Dear Urbaneer: I’ve been…

Considered one of Toronto’s most iconic addresses, Park Hyatt Toronto and Oxford Properties have officially re-opened the fully restored luxury hotel in Yorkville. The KPMB Architects-designed building reemerges as a mixed-use complex, featuring both residential and hotel suites. The south tower of the complex has been completely restored and retained–with restoration work overseen by ERA Architects–making it one of the largest heritage restoration…

Construction is progressing at Madison Group and Westdale Properties’ Nobu Residences Toronto, which is bringing a pair of 45-storey, Teeple Architects-designed towers to the heart of Toronto’s Entertainment District. Our last update on the development in May shared that the podium was steadily rising above Mercer Street, with four storeys formed and the fifth underway. Since then, the structural bracing that was holding the preserved heritage facades in place—no longer…

Sigh. Is there an emoji for that? If I put the word “sigh” in brackets, will WordPress populate a tired, frustrated, emotionally-withdrawn emoji? Nope. Just one more thing I have to handle on my own… We are only one week into the fall real estate market and already it’s feeling like November.  Murphy’s law, “anything that can go wrong, will,”…

The Gardiner Expressway is getting shorter. While some people would like to see even more of the elevated Toronto waterfront highway come down, the portion east of the Don Valley Parkway off ramps closed forever recently, and is now being taken down. Several UrbanToronto Forum contributors have shot images of the demolition over the last several days, and some of the…