The City of Toronto has received a Zoning By-law Amendment application from Johnston Litavski Planning Consultants on behalf of Welland Developments seeking approvals to allow construction of a 33-storey mixed use building with a 6 storey podium on site at 1-19 Glen Watford Drive in Scarborough. The proposed high density building is designed by architectural firm Z Square Group. Looking northeast…

The Market Now Those hoping for a slow-down in the Toronto area’s housing market will need to wait a bit longer — all indicators from the past month’s data for October 2021 are showing a market that is actually heating up rather than cooling down. But the strong demand we are seeing today is very different from the demand we…

New places to live are coming to the Downsview area of  Toronto’s borough of North York. Yorkwoods Condos will be nestled on the edge of parks, green space, schools, with close proximity to malls, restaurants, and transit. CTN Developments is expecting the new Finch West LRT, now under construction, to foster reinvestment in the area similar to what’s happening at Regent Park in Downtown…

This is an UrbanToronto industry update sharing information and status updates from around the industry as a means to keep our readers in the loop. We are covering updates related to rules, regulations, and changes that are being made as a result of the pandemic that impact the real estate and building industries in Toronto.  In today’s report: City Council approves three-year…

Plaza’s 50 at Wellesley Station, a 37-storey BDP Quadrangle designed condominium tower on Wellesley Street East, between Yonge and Church streets has been complete since 2019, but to the north of the property are townhomes and semis that have closed in on completion over the last little while. Now, Plaza is releasing a look at a couple suites in those low-rise buildings,…

Did I ever tell you that I was really into magic as a child? Name a child that wasn’t, right? My friend Jeff and I signed up for magic class in the “after-4 program” at Bessborough Public School in 1990, and of course, we were promptly kicked out for being annoying, loud, obnoxious kids who ruined the class for everybody else. …

Following yesterday’s Daily Photo with a trio of construction equipment, another piece of heavy machinery makes tracks in today’s pic. Here, a Caterpillar Articulated Dump Truck makes a run across the landscape at the Lakeview Village construction site in Mississauga, a new multi-use community being built where a power plant once sat on Lake Ontario’s shoreline. In this pic by…