The City of Toronto continues to facilitate the building of new affordable housing as the development partners for two Phase One Housing Now sites near subway stations have been announced. The development at 50 Wilson Heights Boulevard has been awarded to Tridel Builders and Greenwin, and the development at 705 Warden Avenue has been given to Greenwin and a subsidiary KingSett Capital. Between…

A new development is on the horizon for Toronto’s western borough of Etobicoke. Located in a revitalizing area between Islington subway station and charming Islington Village at 60 Central Park Roadway, Westerly 2 will be the second phase in Tridel and Hollyburn Properties’ Westerly Community. Standing 27-storeys tall, the new Kirkor Architects and Planners-designed condominium tower will offer 354 spacious suites with 9-ft ceilings and…

We are back with our industry updates, sharing information and status updates from around the industry on a regular basis as a means to keep UrbanToronto readers in the loop. We are covering updates related to rules, regulations, and shutdowns that are being enforced as a result of the global pandemic that impact the real estate and building industries in Toronto.  In today’s…

UrbanToronto has released the UTPro New Development Report for August, 2021. UTPro is the newly launched premium database service that organizes, standardizes, and visualizes information from the City of Toronto’s development applications. It will be launching to the public this fall. (Learn more at urbantoronto.ca/pro)     UrbanToronto Pro, available now at urbantoronto.ca/pro​   This UTPro New Development Report analyzes…

I’m a cynic.  I’m a realist.  And I understand economics. But those three things together and do you know what you get? The following rant… There’s no such thing as “free” when it comes to the services we, in Canada, receive.  The simple reason?  The concept of a zero-sum game. In theory, every dollar expended by the government must come from a…

UrbanToronto Forum contributor alexb recently snapped this shot of the Toronto skyline in the distance, gradually filling in from their viewpoint in the Thornhill Woods are of Vaughan, where the roofs of homes in the foreground give way to a woodlot beginning to be inflected by Fall’s colours in the middleground. The Toronto skyline from the Thornhill Woods area of Vaughan, image…

Northeast Scarborough does not often pop up on our UrbanToronto front page. The area has the unfortunate reputation for its general lack of transit and community services, and so is typically overlooked by the development industry, leaving it to rest in its largely suburban state. However, that lack of infrastructure is set to change in the coming decade. With major…