July 8, 20168 yr New 4-mile subway extension with six stations: The line will now terminate in a strip mall anchored by a Lowe's...a pair of 25-story residential towers have already gone up nearby.
July 23, 20168 yr Ground Breaking Celebrates Construction at Fifth on the Park https://t.co/uLvEyf1l6N https://t.co/BihA5PQgBt Daniels' The Wyatt Newest Condos in Regent Park https://t.co/IakgVOOWp9 https://t.co/GRBonzsm5N "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
August 27, 20168 yr Toronto's modern skyscrapers may be boring, but their pedestrian context isn't... A “Walkable” context analysis within a 500 metre radius of the tall building site, from our Tall Bldings guidelines. https://t.co/xSDOgUHamY "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 2, 20168 yr UrbanToronto @Urban_Toronto 44m44 minutes ago What was our top news story of #August2016? http://ow.ly/CvZm303NJZE "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 8, 20168 yr Toronto has a record number of housing units under construction. Their completion should reduce the market's high rent... Toronto is the new Vancouver, but this housing market will also cool https://t.co/sNYW9HzSW1 "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 9, 20168 yr Incredible.... Revised Proposal for 65-Storey 1 Eglinton East Submitted to City. https://t.co/brCxrAToYp #Toronto #RealEstate #CRE "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 16, 20168 yr Yes, even Toronto has its list of "never built" skyscrapers.... Condos that were proposed but never built in Toronto http://www.blogto.com/city/2016/09/5_daring_or_ridiculous_condos_that_toronto_never_built/ "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 19, 20168 yr UrbanToronto @Urban_Toronto 5m5 minutes ago Wide range of floor-plans at @pureplaza + Berkeley's The Met. http://ow.ly/jtr4304muOR #Toronto #RealEstate #Condo #CRE #GTA "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 19, 20168 yr This thread is really amazing. Unbelievable the amount of development. And just slightly depressing. -Jealous in Cleveland :) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
September 28, 20168 yr 10-Tower M City to Rise on 15 Acres at Mississauga City Centre https://t.co/2rp7wXKpZ5 "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 28, 20168 yr Mississauga confuses me. I'm not sure I get what its goal is. Is it to build a city? Or is it to be suburbia? Or is it just trying to be suburbia with some tall buildings thrown in for good measure? It's impressive when looking at the skyline, but at ground level it's pretty bad. Is there an end goal that the government has put together that explicitly states what they want to happen over time? Because I'm seeing a lot of tower-in-the-park style developments, the occasional walkable development, random suburban developments, strip malls, shopping malls, etc. all thrown in together with really lackluster results.
September 28, 20168 yr Yeah, it's a hot mess. I believe it has good transit ridership but it's not pedestrian friendly by any measure except down in Port Credit. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
October 3, 20168 yr #RegentPark: Phase Three of #Revitalization Progresses w/ Mid-Rise Proposal North of Dundas. https://t.co/GSxlC3OtUf #Toronto #Development https://t.co/zhsUUszdVb "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 3, 20168 yr Top News from #September2016: https://t.co/JQvoBy6QoZ #Toronto #TransitTO #RealEstate #Architecture #Development #Construction #CRE https://t.co/zXhOBFfGuS "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 14, 20168 yr #PhotooftheDay: The @RitzCarlton in #Toronto. https://t.co/r2HY4RzGWg #Photography #Design #Architecture #UrbanPhotography #DailyPhoto https://t.co/lkYSY8mNIx "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 18, 20168 yr Today's #ProjectoftheDay is @oneeleven_111 by @HarhayDev in the downtown core. https://t.co/gjO3w8Bh5g #Toronto #RealEstate #Development https://t.co/RY7qGiHLMo "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 24, 20168 yr 4 pics: Axis Condos: @CentreCourtDev's Latest #Development Targets Knowledge Economy. https://t.co/qE5wx63DLP #Toronto #RealEstate #Design #Economy https://t.co/t9YaszYN80 "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
November 9, 20168 yr #Mississauga: Excavation Starts at Arc Condominium in @DanielsErinMill - http://ow.ly/FUDK3061jIa #GTA #RealEstate #Development #CRE #Urban "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
November 14, 20168 yr Revamped Proposal for @HarhayDev's 75 on The Esplanade Revealed. https://t.co/rNgJBhqAhD #Toronto #RealEstate #Development #CRE #Condo https://t.co/TNkhszz3fA "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
November 26, 20168 yr Ethnic diversity clusters in Toronto. One dot per person. What does this mean for #mobility? #fromthearchives #dotdensity #gis #cartography https://t.co/tF4VrEZFP4 "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
November 29, 20168 yr Update on our story: @CanaryDistrict's Block 16 Project hits @WaterfrontTO's Design Review Panel. http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2016/11/update-canary-district-block-16-hits-waterfront-design-review-panel "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
November 29, 20168 yr 36-Storey #development proposal for 57 Spadina now planned as #Rental. http://ow.ly/Dawl306DQRA "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
November 30, 20168 yr Hey guess what? Toronto is building a high-rise! Shocker..... :-P Crane base installed at @pureplaza's 50 at Wellesley Station. http://ow.ly/iLJR306GAke "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
November 30, 20168 yr Hey guess what? Toronto is building a high rise.... Our #ProjectoftheDay is Selene: the final phase of @tridel's Metrogate community. http://ow.ly/8wtv306E9ml "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 1, 20168 yr How's that for a skyline -- and not all of it is pictured from this view.... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 3, 20168 yr A friend of mine in Toronto sent to me this picture -- but it's not Toronto's skyline. It's the skyline of the Toronto suburb of Mississauga! It already beats the skyline in each of Ohio's 3Cs. And it continues to grow. Note the construction cranes...Metro Toronto adds 100,000 residents per year! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 3, 20168 yr Mississauga is also bigger than any of the three C cities, despite it being designated as a suburb. Pretty sure is a suburb of about 800k
December 3, 20168 yr This is what happens when you don't subsidize sprawl like we do. But what do you expect from a city that has a statue of a Canadian soldier triumphing over a dead American one?
December 3, 20168 yr UrbanToronto @Urban_Toronto 2m2 minutes ago Today's #ProjectoftheDay is @CentreCourtDev's Axis Condos. http://ow.ly/IAxh306J8qw #Toronto "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 3, 20168 yr A friend of mine in Toronto sent to me this picture -- but it's not Toronto's skyline. It's the skyline of the Toronto suburb of Mississauga! It already beats the skyline in each of Ohio's 3Cs. And it continues to grow. Note the construction cranes...Metro Toronto adds 100,000 residents per year! Mississauga has an impressive skyline for sure. However, I have always found York's skyline and "downtown" to be even more impressive.
December 3, 20168 yr This is what happens when you don't subsidize sprawl like we do. Because they usually prohibit development beyond urban growth boundaries. Sometimes the boundaries are moved outward in response to population growth. Sometimes they aren't when pro-density leaders are in charge. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 3, 20168 yr the problem with Mississauga and the other mini-urban centers that have sprung up around Toronto is that because they're so new, they're also very sterile, despite their density. One of my nephews lives in Mississauga in a new-ish townhouse in a development in which every home looks like all the others. Likewise another nephew lives in Vaughan in a larger house but where they're all jammed together and essentially all look the same (you see mile after mile of endless developments like these around Toronto. I understand housing is needed for such a burgeoning population, but after a while it looks depressing). I suppose it's fairly walkable, but in my observation, no one really walks (except in the older, historic parts of central Toronto), they just drive from one mall (or Tim Horton's :laugh:) to another, even in these spots where there's a concentration of high rise apartments buildings. http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
December 3, 20168 yr Mississauga is hardly an example anyone should take inspiration from. It's just taking the worst qualities of suburbanism and expanding them vertically. Height and that level of density when everyone still drives and live around their car promotes chaotic situations and doesn't really provide much in the way of livability. Mississauga is really no better than any suburb in America other than having a skyline. Suburban sprawl sucks, but the tower-in-the-park style developments of Mississauga (I know some more recent examples don't follow these principles), giant streets, huge city blocks, shopping mall at the heart of the city, etc. really aren't things to strive for.
December 3, 20168 yr Mississauga is hardly an example anyone should take inspiration from. It's just taking the worst qualities of suburbanism and expanding them vertically. Height and that level of density when everyone still drives and live around their car promotes chaotic situations and doesn't really provide much in the way of livability. Mississauga is really no better than any suburb in America other than having a skyline. Suburban sprawl sucks, but the tower-in-the-park style developments of Mississauga (I know some more recent examples don't follow these principles), giant streets, huge city blocks, shopping mall at the heart of the city, etc. really aren't things to strive for. you described it perfectly http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
December 4, 20168 yr The transit investments coming to these satellite downtowns should offer an escape from the traffic. It can't help the bland architecture, but the scale is remarkable. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 5, 20168 yr I wouldn't say Toronto is without sprawl subsidies. Drive any given afternoon on the Gardiner, 401, QEW etc....and you'll see non-stop road widening and construction. With this in mind, their extreme population gains makes density and planning extremely important. I wish we had those problems in Cleveland! I imagine Cleveland in the early 20th century must have been that way....
December 5, 20168 yr I wouldn't say Toronto is without sprawl subsidies. Drive any given afternoon on the Gardiner, 401, QEW etc....and you'll see non-stop road widening and construction. With this in mind, their extreme population gains makes density and planning extremely important. I wish we had those problems in Cleveland! I imagine Cleveland in the early 20th century must have been that way.... The 401 is the widest expressway in North America for a long stretch between Pearson and Scarborough. The 407 toll-road extension project is carving out tons of farmland as it's being built out past Oshawa/Whitby and connecting with the 401 creating monster interchanges. All the land east of Markham and north of Oshawa will be the next area that will be developed out for sure. Toronto is not sprawl free at all. The GTA needs all those rails because places like Mississauga and North York have very little commercial space despite the residential high-rises. Toronto continues to lag behind most US metros of similar size for commercial space and was never that strong to begin with over the decades. It's not Dubai or Singapore in that regard. Proof is that fact that despite all the condo growth, Toronto's largest office building was built in '75.
December 5, 20168 yr Sprawl doesn't merely equal outward growth. To me, sprawl is when that outward growth comes at the expense of existing communities nearby. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 5, 20168 yr Sprawl doesn't merely equal outward growth. To me, sprawl is when that outward growth comes at the expense of existing communities nearby. I agree to a point. Places like Los Angeles, Dallas and Houston have maintained their older population centers for the most part but population density is still very low overall. Despite growth I don't think anyone will confuse those cities with Toronto or Tokyo anytime soon. I just think the GTA is reaching a changing point. Most of the growth over the last half-century has been centered on a line from Hamilton to Scarborough that has pushed northward away from the lake. The Tornoto-Hamilton area had the bones to be a denser city for a long time so it's not that surprising. The push to the east will be interesting. Oshawa/Whitby are pretty small places in comparison and don't really have a lot of urban infrastructure in place. Clearly the 407 is being extended there to move development in that direction. The condo craze is going to level out at some point. The GTA is quickly becoming unaffordable to many of it's residents as foreign investments increasingly drive the boom. If it busts I do wonder if the east suburbs of Toronto will be lower density as market demand changes. We'll see.
December 5, 20168 yr I'd agree with that. When outward growth features significantly lower densities than in existing, nearby communities, it should be considered sprawl too. A lot of the transit enhancement is also pushing northward away from the lakefront, including the new Airport-Pearson Express rail, conversion of five GO Transit rail lines into electrified rapid transit lines (including three to the north, two of which would be part of the SmartTrack project), the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, York Spadina Subway Extension, Hurontario LRT, Sheppard subway/LRT expansion to Morningside, Finch West LRT, Crosstown west & east LRT extensions (the eastern extension to be to U-T's Scarborough campus). Here's a list of the various major transit projects and where they stood at the time of this article's publication: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/torontos-grand-transit-plan-maybehopefully/article29194407/ "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 6, 20168 yr Looks like a big version of One University Circle.... UrbanToronto @Urban_Toronto 54s55 seconds ago #ProjectoftheDay: Backstage Condos by @CityzenGroup & @Fernbrook_Homes - http://ow.ly/d4VO306QerM "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 15, 20168 yr What's that? Another high-rise, you say? UrbanToronto @Urban_Toronto 30m30 minutes ago Demolition of old retail plaza makes way for Whitehaus Condos by @Lifetime_Dev - http://ow.ly/QiIj30783Fr "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 15, 20168 yr That one looks like old 70's Toronto, which may be...clever? "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
December 19, 20168 yr On the waterfront...... #RealEstate: @danielswtrfront progresses across from Sugar Beach. http://ow.ly/URDg307gjwT "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 21, 20168 yr Downtown Toronto went all in with a pair of Kings STEPHEN WICKENS Special to The Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016 5:00AM EST Last updated Friday, Feb. 12, 2016 3:56PM EST This year marks the 20th anniversary of zoning changes made to rescue two moribund industrial areas straddling Toronto’s core. But aside from resuscitating street life in the Two Kings – 400 acres centred on King Street West at Spadina Avenue and King Street East at Parliament Street – the plan that came at little cost may be a case study in successful economic stimulus – too successful, some now fear. “Walk on King these days and it’s hard to imagine how dead it was becoming,” says Ms. Hall, mayor from 1994 through 1997. “Sidewalks are busy at all hours [now], but back then it reminded me of Cleveland [where she’d lived in the 1970s].” MORE: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/property-report/going-all-in-with-a-pair-of-kings/article28745451/ "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 22, 20168 yr Hot housing prices: we've built a record breaking amount of housing in 2016. Exceptional demand (we're popular!). https://t.co/br2Gz9bNFI "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 23, 20168 yr UrbanToronto @Urban_Toronto 37m37 minutes ago Su Life Financial Tower by @MenkesLife & @sweenyco is one of our best buildings of #2016! http://ow.ly/ZtPC307pfdJ "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 24, 20168 yr UrbanToronto @Urban_Toronto 17m17 minutes ago Topping Off: Our hottest dataBase files of 2016! http://ow.ly/9u7F307pSga "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
January 5, 20178 yr UrbanToronto @Urban_Toronto 27m27 minutes ago Golden Mile: another #Toronto mall is proposed for redevelopment as a mixed-use centre http://ow.ly/yN53307JoPi #TOpoli #urban #planning "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
January 7, 20178 yr i noticed the sun life project when it was getting going last visit and it's great to see stuff the gehry and 1 yorkville to come -- toronto is finally getting some real architecture instead of just people bland canadian people boxes.
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