Ah, September! The sweet sweet time when students return to their studies! The scent of new backpacks and coloured pencils hangs in the air amongst the sound of honking buses and parental high-fives! It truly ‘takes a village’ to make this coveted ninth month of the year a success, and the Bloor West Village shops and businesses are a flurry of…

In August, 2021 Sierra Communities filed a Zoning By-law Amendment application with the City of Toronto for an Annex property that involves the construction of a 9-storey mixed-use condominium and the partial conservation of the street-facing elevations of the existing building at 110-112 Avenue Road. Looking northwest; the site has a frontage of 26m and a depth of 48m, image by…

Madison Group is preparing for the launch of Alias, its new condominium tower that will rise above Church and Richmond Streets in Downtown Toronto. The surrounding neighbourhood is full of development activity, and is seeing significant amounts of revitalization and bringing increased vitality to the streets. Alias will continue that trend as a 45-storey development designed by Teeple Architects, with Turner Fleischer Architects as…

Developer Redwood Properties has proposed a 7-storey, mixed-use, predominantly residential rental development at 507 though 523 Eglinton Avenue West along the northern edge of Toronto’s Forest Hill area. The building would include retail space at ground level and 35 residential rental units, 8 of which would be rental replacement units for those currently on the seconds floors of the five existing two-storey…

The Penthouse Collection of suites at Slate Asset Management’s One Delisle has been released. The residential condominium, near Yonge and St Clair in Toronto’s Deer Park area is the first project in Canada designed by Studio Gang Architects of Chicago.  The eight penthouse residences at One Delisle are set on floors 45 to 47, and each will span either one-third or one-half of the 16-sided building. The Penthouse Collection includes…

I suppose if you really wanted to be amused with the hilarious and often tragic happenings in my industry, you’d have simply read Monday and Wednesday’s blog posts and been done with it! But stories only tell part of the tale.  A picture paints a thousand words, or in this case, a picture of the MLS listing paints a thousand-and-one. Here we go……

UrbanToronto Forum contributor Ryan_T took this shot about a week ago, facing southwest from a Downtown Toronto condo. While the L Tower is the closest building to the photographer, the lightbox atop the more distant CIBC SQUARE’s South Tower is most prominent, being tested on the moonlit night. While CIBC has confirmed their new corporate logo, we await to see…