Waterfront Toronto, in partnership with the City of Toronto and the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is in the process of planning for the multi-phase Waterfront Transit Reset Project that will extend streetcar lines through the East Bayfront and Port Lands, among other goals. Part of this is the replacement of the Cherry Street streetcar loop with an extension to the…
Completed in 2018, the reimagined Auto BLDG located at 158 Sterling Road in Toronto’s Lower Junction area was formerly used as an aluminum extruder, an auto parts plant, and a music video and film set… and a training ground several graffiti artists! After sitting dormant for a decade, the restoration of the 100-year-old plus heritage building — from conception to completion —…
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…
The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB) has reported that February home sales were down compared to the all-time record in 2021, however still represented the second-best result for the month of February – in history. It was also reported that new listings dropped, but by a marginally lesser annual rate than sales, pointing to a move to a slightly more…
Speakers Corner: $1.25B project causing headaches for east end drivers; Toronto home prices hit record, average selling price of detached house pushes $2M mark; Mental health centre to be built in Ontario for first responders; and more news. GTA home prices up 28% from last year as supply remains hampered: TRREB (CP24) Toronto home prices hit record, average selling price of detached house…
Certainly there’s no Toronto Harbour to be seen in the image below by UrbanToronto Forum contributor TheSix, but what we can see is a new piece of Harbour Street soon to open, even though it won’t be connected up to the rest of the street initially: there’s the old LCBO warehouse in the way, cutting across the middle ground of…
Welcome to my blog on housing, culture, and design, with a particular focus on Toronto real estate. Having recently returned from my home on PEI, which serves as an incubator for domesticity and design – and spawns my Tales From Upper Hillsborough – to my home in Toronto, where I have front-row seats watching the real-time play-by-play dynamics of the…
Welcome to my blog on housing, culture, and design, with a particular focus on Toronto real estate. Having recently returned from my home on PEI, which serves as an incubator for domesticity and design, and spawns my Tales From Upper Hillsborough to my home in Toronto, where I have front-row seats watching the real-time play-by-play dynamics of the Toronto real…
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