With Toronto’s Crosstown LRT opening around a year from now, the lands along the new transit line are hotbeds for intensification. The section of Eglinton Avenue East between Victoria Park Avenue and Birchmount Road, know as Scarborough’s Golden Mile, in particular has seen many proposals for redevelopment over the past couple of years, with the most recent of the bunch being a mixed-use…

The Yonge Street Mission (YSM) has submitted Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendment applications to the City of Toronto to redevelop the site located at 306 through 310 Gerrard Street East, on the edges of Cabbagetown and Regent Park. The proposed 10-storey redevelopment would replace several features now on the site — a surface parking lot, single-storey YSM thrift store, private laneway, 2-storey detached…

From 2015 to 2017, UrbanToronto and its sister publication, SkyriseCities, ran an occasional series of articles under the heading Explainer. Each one took a concept from Urban Planning, Architecture, Construction, or other topics that often wind up in our publications, and presented an in depth look at it. It’s time to revisit (and update where necessary) those articles for those new…

On the northwest corner of Bloor and Huron Streets in Downtown Toronto, the Bloor Street United Church, first constructed in 1886, is soon to be integrated into a high-rise redevelopment of the site. Collecdev and Northrop Development Inc.’s Cielo Condos will rise 29 storeys above the church, bringing 284 units of high-rise density to the Annex neighbourhood.  View from Bloor Street, image courtesy…

The weather has turned a bit more comfortable already, but the cold has its compensations, like last week when a lovely snowfall was underway one night when UrbanToronto Forum contributor Stefan caught this image of KING Toronto under construction, cranes rising high with The Well under construction in the background. image. by UrbanToronto Forum contributor Stefan Want to see your work…