Plaza Partners is proposing to redevelop the easterly portion of a rental townhouse complex at 390 Woodsworth Road in Toronto’s borough of North York. Along its Leslie Street frontage, three new 8-storey, TACT Architecture-designed, mid-rise residential buildings are proposed. The redevelopment would result in the demolition and replacement of 48 existing rental townhomes. The new development would cover a total of…

Menkes Developments and QuadReal Property Group’s Festival Condominiums, the largest new mixed-use development at Vaughan Metropolitan Centre (VMC), has begun its excavation. Designed by IBI Group, the project is comprised of four towers connected by a podium, and will boast the tallest building in Vaughan’s city centre, at 59 storeys. Our update last month shared that the project had just broken ground. Now,…

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: Workplace Inspectors to Visit…

Did you live in a dorm in university? I didn’t. I’ll admit, I was one of those kids who simply refused.  And while there were certainly bigger losers than me, for example, the kids that lived in Toronto and drove to Hamilton every day for school, I chose to live off-campus in first-year university. I remember touring Western University with my mommy when…

UrbanToronto Forum contributor 67Cup took this shot in the Humber Bay Parks of a sailboat moored in one of the bays created by the headlands at the mouth of the Mimico Creek in Lake Ontario. Behind, the towers of Etobicoke’s Humber Bay Shores are form the backdrop. Sailboat moored in front of Humber Bay Shores towers, image by UrbanToronto Forum…