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Sail Condos Celebrates Chinese New Year in North York
As Opearl Developments' first Canadian project, Toronto's Sail Condos is set to declare the Chinese company's presence in a new market. With a highly recognizable design evoking the eponymous shape—the...
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Is Toronto's Real Estate Market Healthy for Entrepreneurs?
The role that real estate plays in shaping the look and feel of cities is an obvious one. The built form of urban centres has a profound impact on the way people use the city. The designs of individual...
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Altus Group Releases Results of 2015 Real Estate Review
At the end of January, Altus Group Limited (Altus Group; TSX: AIF), a leading provider of commercial real estate services, software, and data solutions, released results of its 2015 Real Estate Review...
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Diamond Schmitt Design Captures Imagination—and Earth's Energy—at UTSC
Last week's announcement of renewed plans for a Scarborough LRT was met with praise and celebration by residents and transit advocates throughout Toronto. Proposed to terminate at the University of...
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Photo of the Day: GO Willowbrook Yard
GO Transit's Willowbrook Yard is a large storage and maintenance facility located in Etobicoke, just west of Mimico GO Station. Several GO Transit bilevel trains can be seen at the large train yard in...
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Queen Street Route Proposed For Downtown Relief Line; Subway touted as a way to awaken Scarborough’s downtown dream; ‘Green’ Gardiner proposal includes a park over the eastern end of the highway; and...
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Topping Off January 2016: What's Hot on UrbanToronto
Time to round up another month of city-building, transportation, and real estate talk in Toronto, with a look at our hottest news stories, dataBase files, and Forum threads from the month of...
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128 Hazelton: Updated Design Emerges at Public Consultation
A January 28th community consultation brought to light a slightly tailored design for Mizrahi Developments' 21-unit luxury condominium at 128 Hazelton, just to the east of the intersection of Avenue...
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Demolition Clearing Site for Riverside Square Development
Demolition of existing buildings has begun at the 4.5 acre Queen Street East site of Riverside Square, an ambitious mixed-use development from Streetcar Developments and Dream set to bring new...
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Scale Model Provides Insight into Design of 609 Avenue Road
Last month we visited the presentation centre for 609 Avenue Road, a new 19-storey Richmond Architects-designed development by State Building Group and Madison Homes planned to join a stretch of...
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33 Avenue Road Redesigned as Toronto's First 'Vertical Forest'
Toronto's Yorkville neighbourhood could become the site of the city's first 'vertical forest.' New renderings for the long-awaited 33 Avenue Road project bring to light a new design aesthetic for the...
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Photo of the Day: The 509
Today's colourful Photo of the Day, submitted to the UrbanToronto Flickr Pool by Ronaldo Wanyou, takes us to Queens Quay, facing west at Rees Street. Captured after dark, this long exposure shot...
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TTC subway service improving, but maintenance program has to wait; Scarborough subway won't necessarily carry jobs; 14th and 15th new TTC streetcars entered service, January 14, February 1; and more...
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LJM Developments' Waterview Condominiums Rising in Grimsby
Though major housing markets have cooled elsewhere in Canada, the area around Hamilton at the west end of Lake Ontario continues to draw in buyers with competitive pricing compared locations closer to...
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Limestone Installation Underway on Backstage Condo Podium
Since topping off in mid-2015, remaining construction work has been progressing at the Yonge and Esplanade site of the Backstage on The Esplanade condominiums by Cityzen Development Group, Fernbrook...
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Exploring Toronto's Luxury Real Estate with Talon's Neil Labatte
In Toronto, a city of constantly rising real estate prices and fast-paced development, it can be difficult to analyze market conditions with a long-term perspective. The whirlwind nature of the...
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Suite Vignette Provides Glimpse into Life at Briar Hill City Towns
With only a handful of units remaining, Madison Homes' Briar Hill City Towns is gearing up for a planned Spring start to construction. The stacked townhome development nestled between Toronto's...
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St. Clair: Growth to Watch For in 2016
This edition of UrbanToronto's Growth to Watch For series shifts into midtown Toronto with an overview of development along the St. Clair Avenue corridor. Identified as an avenue in the City of...
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Photo of the Day: Rooftop Hockey
The mysterious installation of a scaled-down hockey rink atop 120 Adelaide West in Toronto's Financial District captured the attention of the public last month. In today's Photo of the Day, submitted...
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Province issues second round of 'green' bonds; Uber versus taxis showdown returns to Toronto council; Glen Abbey redevelopment delayed at least a year; and more news...Province issues second round of...
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