A development plan in Toronto’s West Don Lands by Dream Unlimited, Kilmer Group, and Tricon Residential for a site east of Cherry Street was last updated in a submission for Site Plan Approval to the City of Toronto in October. Referred to as Block 20, the West Don Lands site has an address of 125R Mill Street. The proposal is designed by Henning Larsen Architects of Copenhagen and…
The Market Now Toronto’s housing market ended 2021 with a record 119,532 home sales, surpassing the previous record of 112,288 in 2016. The average house price for the year of 2021 was $1,342,444, up 23% over 2020 and up 39% over the 2019 average. The average condo price for 2021 was $702.356, up 11% over 2020 and up 19%…
MOD Developments Inc. has submitted an application to the City of Toronto regarding the rezoning of a property at 241 Redpath Avenue in Midtown. The site is currently occupied by a 12-storey residential rental building with a surface parking area. The application proposes to demolish the existing building, and construct a new residential tower that would contain 335 condo units and…
MOD Developments Inc. has submitted an application to the City of Toronto regarding the rezoning of a property at 241 Redpath Avenue in Midtown. The site is currently occupied by a 12-storey residential rental building with a surface parking area. The application proposes to demolish the existing building, and construct a new 35-storey residential tower that would contain 341 apartment units…
There is widespread speculation that the Bank of Canada (BoC) will start to raise its policy rate at its upcoming meeting on January 26. In its last several policy statements, the BoC has said that it expects to start raising “in the middle quarters of 2022”. But the drumbeat to start earlier grows louder by the day, and that has…
East of Wilson subway station in the Toronto borough of North York, construction of Collecdev’s Nordic Condos has been making steady progress. The gh3-designed project has recently risen above its underground parking levels that were still partially exposed upon our last construction update in November. The buildings now stand just above grade across the whole footprint of the site –…
Ontario home insurance rates to rise 5 per cent or more in 2022; ‘Trying to gouge us’: Couple hit with 61 per cent rent hike; Ontario condo managers warned not to influence elections after investigator raises concerns about digital vote; and more news: GTA home prices still forecast to rise 11 per cent in 2022 even with expected interest rate hikes: Royal…
“holds water” Pardon the pun, it wasn’t intentional. And if we’re being honest, the Titanic did hold water pretty well. It took 2 hours and 40 minutes for that thing to sink, and I don’t know that James Cameron condensed that sequence at all in the movie, which felt like it was six hours. But I digress… Well, we’re Monday Morning Quarterbacking once…
Recently, UrbanToronto Forum contributor achender was in Toronto’s West Don Lands when he spotted a rig in place to drill into the ground for a tieback along a newly constructed shoring wall. As excavations deepen and as shoring walls grow taller, tiebacks are needed to hold the wall in place. The tieback, after being inserted into the ground deep behind the wall, will…
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