Topping Off September 2021: What Was Hot on UrbanToronto | UrbanToronto
Another month of Toronto city-building, transportation, and real estate talk is now behind us, so we are looking back at what were the hottest stories, project Database files, and Forum discussions from September, 2021.
Our Top Ten News Stories
We start off the Top Ten Stories at #20, with a visit beyond the 416 to an historic electrical station that powered up the area, now being re-powered as a tourist attraction
20. Historic Niagara Generating Station Reopens as an Engaging Attraction
Amongst our Top Ten is one of this past month’s Daily Photos, #3 is from one of five days when we featured images of the Gardiner Expressway’s East End coming down. It was a popular topic as numbers 15 and 18 were also Gardiner Takedown Daily Photos. #2 was a bit of a surprise too, as it was our only actual Top Ten story from outside the 416.
10. 30-Storey Condo Tower Proposed Just East of Yonge-Dundas Square
9. Residential Towqer Proposed on Eglinton Steps from Leaside Crosstown
8. Concord Adex Take Over Cresford Development Site at Yonge and Gerrard
7. QuadReal Updates Skyscraping 191 Bay Proposal
6. Mizrahi Developments’ The One Prepares for Major Concrete Pour
5. Flatiron Tower Proposed at Site of Dilapidated Cube House
4. Fengate Properties Propose Massive Redevelopment in Don Mills
3. Gardiner Takedown Team
2. SmartCentres REIT Proposes Transformation of South Hill in Richmond Hill
…and #1 was Reece Martin’s great big story of all the subway expansion currently underway in Toronto:
1. How Toronto Came to Have the Largest Subway Expansion Program in North America
Crosstown LRT vehicle, image by UT Forum contributor Reece Martin
Our Top Ten Database Files
We cruise into our Top Ten Database Files at #15, where the former YSL Residences by Cresford became Concord Sky by Concord Adex, eliciting some fresh interest.
15. Concord Sky
There were some surprises in the actual Top Ten in September. For several prior months, nothing changed in the Top Three at all, but this time a redesigned 191 Bay bumped The Well into spot #4 and CIBC SQUARE into #5, while the numbers below were all scrambled. A big surprise at #8 is 80 Overlea Boulevard…
10. Sugar Wharf Condominiums Phase 1
9. 160 Front West
8. 80 Overlea Boulevard
7. The Pemberton
6. Nobu Residences Toronto
5. CIBC SQUARE
4. The Well
3. 191 Bay
2. Pinnacle One Yonge
…but at the very top, nothing has yet dethroned our most fascinating object of construction:
1. The One
Looking east to The One, image courtesy of Mizrahi Developments
Our Top Ten Threads
Even as the uppermost spots in this list go to constant favourites, our top ten threads are more off a mixed bag, starting with #11 where the Peter and Adelaide condos are getting more notice now that the irregular floorplate of the complex—which wraps around a couple of other buildings that actually stand at the corner the development is named after—is starting to grow up and around them, becoming more prominent in Toronto’s Entertainment District.
11. Peter and Adelaide
From #10 through #2, the biggest surprises are at #8 and #6 where projects of interest to the community around Eglinton and Don Mills are grabbing more attention recently.
10. Concord Canada House
9. Sugar Wharf Condominiums Phase 1
8. Crosstown Community Block 5A
7. Concord Sky
6. 80 Overlea Boulevard
5. 160 Front West
4. The Well
3. CIBC SQAURE
2. Pinnacle One Yonge
Still in #1 though, is our out-and-out most participated-in thread covering the atply named project:
1. The One
Construction at The One, image by UT Forum contributor anthonylipson1996
We will be back at the beginning of November for a recap of October’s top news stories, Database files, and Forum threads!
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