In Toronto, you’re never far very from a crane. There are so many here — particularly because of the huge demand for new housing that we have not been able to keep up with — that we have in fact more cranes than any other city on the continent, over 220 in the 416 alone. While our streets and our…
Multi-generational housing is a phenomenon that we are seeing more and more of in the City of Toronto and across Canada. The combination of high housing prices pushing the bounds of affordability, along with challenges in finding the right home in the right price point and/or location, is causing homebuyers to seek more creative solutions to homeownership. (To explore one…
It has been announced by the City of Toronto that Hackman Capital Partners (HCP) and its affiliate The MBS Group (MBS) will partner with the City and CreateTO to develop and operate the Basin Media Hub which is to be located on an 8.9 acre piece of land on the waterfront in Toronto’s Port Lands, located at 29, 35, 41…
In early September we caught up with demolition of an office complex at 300 The East Mall in Etobicoke called the Valhalla Executive Centre. The three mid-rise buildings, built in the late 1970s and located immediately to the northeast of where Bloor Street crosses over Highway 427, are coming down so that a much denser mixed-use complex can rise in…
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After a shot of in the Humber Bay Shores area as yesterday’s Daily Photo feature, today we are further west on Etobicoke’s Lake Ontario shoreline at Colonel Samuel Smith Park for an image taken by UrbanToronto Forum contributor Marcanadian, this time not of the immediate skyline, but of Mississauga’s distant City Centre skyline to the west. Featuring prominently on the…
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