This week, Broccolini submitted Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-law Amendment applications to the City of Toronto for a multi-building development at Huntley and Selby streets near Bloor Street and Mount Pleasant Road in Downtown Toronto. The plans propose two residential towers with a wide range of housing options including replacement rental units, affordable apartments, and market rate apartments, along with…

This week, Broccolini submitted Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-law Amendment applications to the City of Toronto for a multi-building development at Huntley and Selby streets near Bloor Street and Mount Pleasant Road in Downtown Toronto. The plans propose two residential towers with a wide range of housing options including replacement rental units, affordable apartments, and market rate apartments, along with…

Following its groundbreaking in August, the excavation of Reserve Properties and Westdale Properties’ Untitled Toronto is well underway. In a unique working partnership, 751-unit, two-tower residential condo development that will be coming to the site was designed by IBI Group, U31, and multi-hyphenate artist Pharrell Williams, and will stand 21 and 33 storeys tall on Broadway Avenue in Midtown. Also to be built on the site is the…

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…

Significant progress has been made on the Artworks Tower and Artsy Boutique Condos complex from The Daniels Corporation, most recently having glazing installed around its 3-storey podium. The BDP Quadrangle and Kirkor Architects-designed complex is located in Toronto’s Regent Park neighbourhood on the northwest corner of Dundas Street East and River Street. Since our last update in August, Artworks has risen from 22 to 26-storeys, and Artsy…

Welcome to this month’s installment of Dear Urbaneer, where we open our virtual mailbag and take on real estate questions from our readers. This time, Steve is talking to a couple who will very soon be taking possession of their first home. With so much to do in preparation for the move, they’re worried they’ll miss something essential, and are…

After fourteen years of writing stories three times per week (it was actually four times from 2007 to 2013…), I always wonder if I’ll eventually run out of things to write about. But then as I’m wondering, I’ll have one, two, or ten experiences that are “blog-worthy,” and that wonder goes from concern to impossibility. This business is so full of stories,…

UrbanToronto Forum contributor ADRM was looking up from the sidewalk along Bay Street in Downtown Toronto when he took this photo of the canopy at CIBC SQUARE, seeing traces of the south tower’s outline through it above. Looking up through the canopy at CIBC SQUARE to see traces of the tower above, image by UrbanToronto Forum contributor ADRM Want to…