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Iconic Honest Ed's Sign Coming Down on Markham Street
Another chapter in Toronto's long-form eulogy for Honest Ed's is playing out on Markham Street today. This morning, part of the former discount store's instantly recognizable sign was disassembled at...
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Crowded Broker Launch Kicks Off Vaughan's Transit City Condos
The line stretched through the lobby of the new KPMG Tower at 100 New Park Place, winding and folding over itself before spilling out into the building's Claude Cormier + Associés-designed plaza and...
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Oxford and EY Open Their New Downtown Toronto Office Tower
This morning, having entered through the restored doors of the Concourse Building, executives and employees of Oxford Properties and EY Canada gathered in the lobby of their new Richmond Adelaide...
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Century-Old Icon Reborn in Scarborough's Guildwood Area
It was 1914 when Colonel Harold Bickford constructed an Arts and Crafts-style manor in what is now Scarborough's Guildwood Park neighbourhood, though after a full century of changes in ownership and...
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Greenbelt Alliance Cautiously Optimistic for Post OMB Ontario
Just over a week ago, the Province of Ontario announced the creation of new tribunal that would replace the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) as we know it today. The Provincial government argues that the...
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E Condos Grows Taller as Cladding Installation Reveals Details
It is just shy of two months since we last checked in on the construction progress of Bazis, Metropia, and RioCan's E Condos, though over the past few weeks, the Rosario Varacalli-designed project's...
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Main and Main Propose 12-Storey Rental Building on St Clair W
At the northeast corner of St. Clair West and Alberta Avenue near Toronto's Corso Italia, construction is now underway on Main and Main's 12-storey rental building at 898-900 St. Clair Ave West. Now,...
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Photo of the Day: Toronto's Vibrant Skyline
Today's Photo of the Day features a vibrantly lit west-facing view of Toronto's booming skyline. Submitted to the UrbanToronto Flickr Pool by contributor Worrawat Engchuan, this shot was captured from...
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Toronto’s transit problem isn’t about money — it’s about priorities; Toronto parents’ fight against high-rise near elementary school isn’t over; The Downtown Relief Line Still Being Debated After More...
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Growing Up: New Guidelines Promote Child-Friendly Density
Soccer in the condo hallway, a stroller in the bathtub, and a public school two neighbourhoods away. For some Downtown Toronto families, this is part of everyday life. Although life in the urban core...
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Ryerson's Daphne Cockwell Complex Grows Taller on Church
Amidst steadily rising enrolment, Ryerson University has been aggressively expanding its Downtown Toronto facilities in recent years. The next building set to join the urban campus is the 27-storey,...
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Revised Plan Progresses Diamante's Two-Tower Mirabella Condos
Set to add another pair of high-rise towers across the Humber River from Etobicoke's growing Humber Bay Shores area, Diamante Development'Mirabella Condominiums is continuing to move through the City...
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Transit Progress: Into the Crosstown LRT's West Tunnel Portal
The construction of Metrolinx's Crosstown LRT pushes on in central Toronto, as Crosslinx crews work to create a new 19-kilometre light rail transit line that includes a 10-kilometre stretch underneath...
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Toronto of the Future Showcase Comes to Metro Hall June 26-30
This year, the second biennial edition of Toronto of the Future returns to Metro Hall, once again offering a glimpse at the city to come. Two years after the 2015 showcase delivered an insider look at...
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Ontario Supporting More Cycling Infrastructure in Municipalities
Usually, when Ontario's Minister of Transportation, Stephen Del Duca, comes to town, you expect to hear news about a major transit project.Today, though, the first day of Bike Month, the minister and...
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Photo of the Day: Concrete Balconies
Today's Photo of the Day comes to us from the Forum thread for Great Gulf's Monde Condominiums, where contributor skycandy submitted a thorough photo update on the construction of the 44-storey Moshe...
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City plans can't be fully funded with budget freeze, critics say; Scarborough Bluffs the latest casualty of excess rainfall; Ontario to spend up to $42.5 million this year on cycling infrastructure;...
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38-Storey Residential Tower Proposed at 83 River Street
In mid-May, a rezoning and Official Plan amendment application were submitted to the City of Toronto for the construction of a 38-storey condominium with a 7-storey podium at the northeast corner of...
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City Seeks Online Public Input for 'Transit-First' King Street Pilot
With heavy congestion, slow traffic speeds, and a streetcar that averages about 65,000 daily riders per weekday, King Street is known to be one of the busiest surface transit routes in the city....
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Concrete Forming Begins Atop Residences of 488 University Ave.
In the busy months since the Fall 2015 start of construction at Amexon Development Corporation's Residences of 488 University Avenue, we have witnessed significant progress for the impressive...
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