January 24, 20187 yr #Vaughan and #Oshawa see record-breaking year in #construction. https://t.co/iUR6uyFM18 #development #realestate #architecture https://t.co/YfwWOhmghn "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
January 26, 20187 yr Our #ProjectOfTheDay is #Mississauga Square #condos from @pureplaza. https://t.co/BIFt8xg8C8 #Toronto #development https://t.co/MWf78I7VIn "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
March 17, 20187 yr #Constructions begins at site of @tridel's two-tower Via Bloor #condos. https://t.co/EUGIhBwk2b #Toronto #development #realestate https://t.co/FOiDJraxx1 "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
March 17, 20187 yr Our #PhotoOfTheDay takes us to the top of DNA3 in #Toronto's King West Village area, for a view of the city #skyline. https://t.co/KA1xiQxDG8 https://t.co/vUj30SqB5I "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
March 17, 20187 yr Our #ProjectOfTheDay is The One #condos from @mizrahi_dev at 1 Bloor West. https://t.co/tpNSW7m3Oy #Toronto #development https://t.co/lAhshBTLTz "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
March 17, 20187 yr Another #GrowthToWatch For 2018 instalment, this one focusing on the growing Jarvis and Church Street corridors on the east side of #Downtown #Toronto. https://t.co/aQY2M8cK5P #development #construction #realestate #architecture https://t.co/hN2jmoyzfY "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
April 30, 20187 yr Video reveals @fordnation privately telling developers in Feb. he would "open a big chunk" of protected greenbelt so they can build houses, which is not part of public @OntarioPCParty platform https://t.co/sRrdAC9e94 "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
May 22, 20187 yr 400 Front West plans tweaked in advance of LPAT hearing. http://ow.ly/2C7b30k89sV #Toronto #planning #development "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 6, 20186 yr @Urban_Toronto Today's #ProjectOfTheDay is @KipDistrict by @ConcertProp, a master-planned community taking in #Toronto's Kipling and Dundas area http://ow.ly/xifX30kPvp0 "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
August 9, 20186 yr Developers have become Toronto’s new city builders https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2018/08/07/developers-have-become-torontos-new-city-builders.html An artist’s depiction of Sugar Wharf, which is now being built at the old LCBO site on Queens Quay E. The size of the apartments being built there signals that the focus is more on creating community than constructing a tower or two, Christopher Hume writes. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
August 10, 20186 yr Toronto is probably one of my favorite cities in North America. The only thing that sucks is that it literally has become a city dwarfed by look alike skyscraper after look alike skyscraper. I feel like these architects must be suicidal, having there talents go to waste on high rise buildings that simply look like it came out of a Walmart 3d printer. To make matters worse, I visited Toronto a few weeks ago, and I noticed how a block that used to neighbor elegant historic stock became a pile of ruble, fenced for a new residential tower. It's sad. Toronto is growing at a crazy fast pace, but I feel like Toronto officials could have done more about preservation in company with all the new development.
September 11, 20186 yr Microsoft Announces New Canadian Headquarters in Downtown Toronto CNW Group CNW GroupSeptember 11, 2018 Facility part of a series of investments by Microsoft in Canada over the next four years TORONTO , Sept 11, 2018 /CNW/ - Today, Microsoft announced a massive new investment in Canada , with plans for a state-of-the-art new headquarters located in the heart of downtown Toronto. With a move-in date set in Sept 2020 , the facility, located at 81 Bay Street, is just one of a series of significant investments Microsoft is making. These investments will enable an expansion of Microsoft's Canadian operations, including increasing staff, modernizing its real estate, and growing its research lab in Montreal that is focused on artificial intelligence. Microsoft says moving to a new facility at 81 Bay Street (CIBC SQUARE) will enable the company to better serve its customers, collaborate with its technology partners and to attract top talent to a central location, one well served by transit and more accessible to universities and innovative new tech start-ups. MORE: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-announces-canadian-headquarters-downtown-175000764.html "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 11, 20186 yr Google's Quayside project could be a milestone in digital-age city-building. But after a year of scandal in Silicon Valley, questions about privacy and security remain, @mslaurabliss reports. https://www.citylab.com/design/2018/09/how-smart-should-a-city-be-toronto-is-finding-out/569116/ "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 11, 20186 yr Too bad it won't have any transit access ;) http://urbantoronto.ca/database/projects/cibc-square Microsoft moving Canadian HQ to Toronto’s CIBC Square Don Wilcox | Property Biz Canada | 2018-09-11 Ivanhoé Cambridge and Hines Tuesday announced Microsoft Canada will move its Canadian headquarters to CIBC Square when it opens in 2020 in downtown Toronto. Microsoft will occupy 132,000 square feet over four floors at the two-phase project, which is currently under construction at 81 Bay Street. Move-in is scheduled for September 2020. “This lease agreement with Microsoft confirms CIBC Square as the ideal project for the highest-profile companies that are seeking a next-generation downtown urban experience,” said Arthur Lloyd, chief development officer for Ivanhoé Cambridge’s North American office division, in a prepared statement. MORE: https://renx.ca/microsoft-moving-canadian-hq-torontos-cibc-square/ "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 11, 20186 yr being nominally in another country, which no doubt helps, toronto is hoovering up back offices pretty well. i imagine that hurts other midwestern and canadian cities chances to some extent. i do like this development, but i wish they went for actual architecture and quality more often, instead of generally settling for the place turning into another modern version of se florida.
September 11, 20186 yr 132,000 sq feet is not a very big office. It's not even enough to be considered an anchor for a new development. And it wasn't for CIBC Square which was already under construction. But you don't really need anchor tenants to get an office tower built in Toronto anyway. It's a speculator's paradise. This latest news is an example why. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 12, 20186 yr How much space will CIBC take? "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 6, 20186 yr Remember when Toronto and its lakefront weren't very vibrant? I don't, but some of my older friends do. Thank goodness for photos to reveal Toronto's past. Five years before this photo was taken in 1975, the city and metro area populations of Toronto-Hamilton were smaller than Cleveland-Akron.... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 8, 20186 yr On 10/6/2018 at 1:03 PM, KJP said: Remember when Toronto and its lakefront weren't very vibrant? I don't, but some of my older friends do. Thank goodness for photos to reveal Toronto's past. Five years before this photo was taken in 1975, the city and metro area populations of Toronto-Hamilton were smaller than Cleveland-Akron.... WOW!! Great picture! Pretty inspiring what can happen in a generation.
October 22, 20186 yr Yes! Make Toronto a place I can be even more proud of to call my next home! ? "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 22, 20186 yr Well, with Doug Ford, it ain't lookin' too good for the T.O. anytime soon... "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
October 22, 20186 yr That's what makes a move to Ontario difficult to justify right now. But I have more faith about their future than ours. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 23, 20186 yr O' Canada..... ? "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 26, 20186 yr AND AND AND Then of course there's the masthead photo on Urban Toronto's twitter account Edited October 26, 20186 yr by KJP "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
November 12, 20186 yr "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
February 1, 20196 yr So routine... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
February 21, 20196 yr Aerial photographs of Toronto from the 1920s to the 1980s https://www.ilanjoseph.com/aerial-photographs-of-toronto-from-the-1920s-to-1980s/ "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
March 5, 20196 yr "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
April 17, 20196 yr If you won, would you live in it or sell it?? "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
May 21, 20196 yr ^ nyc is copying that along 14st with brt and closures during the superstorm sandy canarsie subway tunnel reconstruction --- they may make it permanent if it works out as well. https://www.amny.com/transit/l-train-14th-street-1.30169312
June 18, 20195 yr "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 18, 20195 yr Okay - this will be wildly unpopular as I know my liberal friends here love Canada... so let me preface... Downtown Toronto is GREAT! Absolutely love it. However, other parts of Toronto into Mississauga, etc. are absolutely abhorrent. There are some WONDERFUL residential skyscrapers that sit next to strip malls with almost no interaction with the street below. I spent the day in Toronto before leaving for Italy and Mississauga might be my least favorite city on earth (and I've been to Mobile, AL). I do not know if there are no zoning laws, or if they were poorly written, but the randomness of it all leaves Mississauga, Brampton, Oakville, at all devoid of any real sense of community, at least in the commercial parts where skyscrapers are as random as zits on a teenager. https://www.google.com/maps/@43.5969622,-79.6392344,3a,75y,149.72h,98.27t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVPqn4wwAYQOTO9J3DJKYWA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6060781,-79.6521551,3a,75y,175.73h,96.06t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sU-5CEAKXg9dim7Ni89vLeA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.com/maps/@43.5909789,-79.6312955,3a,75y,170.61h,98.05t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCrGwbU1OkT4vC-nc0fpHRw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
June 18, 20195 yr 6 minutes ago, YABO713 said: Okay - this will be wildly unpopular as I know my liberal friends here love Canada... so let me preface... Downtown Toronto is GREAT! Absolutely love it. However, other parts of Toronto into Mississauga, etc. are absolutely abhorrent. There are some WONDERFUL residential skyscrapers that sit next to strip malls with almost no interaction with the street below. I spent the day in Toronto before leaving for Italy and Mississauga might be my least favorite city on earth (and I've been to Mobile, AL). I do not know if there are no zoning laws, or if they were poorly written, but the randomness of it all leaves Mississauga, Brampton, Oakville, at all devoid of any real sense of community, at least in the commercial parts where skyscrapers are as random as zits on a teenager. https://www.google.com/maps/@43.5969622,-79.6392344,3a,75y,149.72h,98.27t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVPqn4wwAYQOTO9J3DJKYWA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6060781,-79.6521551,3a,75y,175.73h,96.06t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sU-5CEAKXg9dim7Ni89vLeA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.com/maps/@43.5909789,-79.6312955,3a,75y,170.61h,98.05t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCrGwbU1OkT4vC-nc0fpHRw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 Ya I agree that's horrible, what even funnier is how well laid out and built out most of Toronto itself is. Go google map the Beach neighborhood and just follow the streets into downtown. Your photos are almost the mirror opposite, which is crazy because I believe their planning department is regional. Edited June 18, 20195 yr by KFM44107
June 18, 20195 yr I've often said that Mississauga looks amazing.... from 5 miles away. Its skyline equals or exceeds Cleveland's. But at street level, it's as bad as Cleveland Clinic. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 19, 20195 yr 19 hours ago, YABO713 said: Okay - this will be wildly unpopular as I know my liberal friends here love Canada... so let me preface... Downtown Toronto is GREAT! Absolutely love it. However, other parts of Toronto into Mississauga, etc. are absolutely abhorrent. There are some WONDERFUL residential skyscrapers that sit next to strip malls with almost no interaction with the street below. I spent the day in Toronto before leaving for Italy and Mississauga might be my least favorite city on earth (and I've been to Mobile, AL). I do not know if there are no zoning laws, or if they were poorly written, but the randomness of it all leaves Mississauga, Brampton, Oakville, at all devoid of any real sense of community, at least in the commercial parts where skyscrapers are as random as zits on a teenager. https://www.google.com/maps/@43.5969622,-79.6392344,3a,75y,149.72h,98.27t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVPqn4wwAYQOTO9J3DJKYWA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6060781,-79.6521551,3a,75y,175.73h,96.06t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sU-5CEAKXg9dim7Ni89vLeA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.com/maps/@43.5909789,-79.6312955,3a,75y,170.61h,98.05t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCrGwbU1OkT4vC-nc0fpHRw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 And yet, Canada's sprawly suburbs still have better transit infrastructure than most places in America. In your second link above, there is a bus stop with an actual shelter, bench, and route schedule! We don't even have that within the City of Cincinnati outside of a few transit centers.
June 19, 20195 yr 14 minutes ago, taestell said: And yet, Canada's sprawly suburbs still have better transit infrastructure than most places in America. In your second link above, there is a bus stop with an actual shelter, bench, and route schedule! We don't even have that within the City of Cincinnati outside of a few transit centers. Yeah, my comment really just referred to zoning and street level interactivity
June 22, 20195 yr its hardly wildly unpopular to pick on mississauga -- its a whipping boy for bad/generic urbanity. btw it has a southern twin in sunny isles, fla.
July 22, 20195 yr Meanwhile, in Toronto... View from Mount Nemo by Alex Meoko, on Flickr "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 4, 20195 yr Pelli Clarke Pelli's massive tower complex will transform the Toronto skyline https://archpaper.com/2019/07/pelli-clarke-pellis-tower-complex-toronto-skyline/#gallery-0-slide-2 A 4.3-million-square-foot, multi-tower development by Pelli Clarke Pelli could reshape the Toronto skyline as it is expected to become the largest mixed-useproject in the city. Located in Union Park in the shadow of CN Tower, the $3.5 billion complex will bring 3.3 million square feet of offices, 800 residential units, and 200,000 square feet of high-quality retail to the city. The Union Park complex is an arrangement of three glassy towers on podiums: two are designed as near-mirror images, and the third will include housing with units specifically designed for families. When is the last time I-71 turned a profit?
August 4, 20195 yr 6 minutes ago, Boomerang_Brian said: Pelli Clarke Pelli's massive tower complex will transform the Toronto skyline https://archpaper.com/2019/07/pelli-clarke-pellis-tower-complex-toronto-skyline/#gallery-0-slide-2 A 4.3-million-square-foot, multi-tower development by Pelli Clarke Pelli could reshape the Toronto skyline as it is expected to become the largest mixed-useproject in the city. Located in Union Park in the shadow of CN Tower, the $3.5 billion complex will bring 3.3 million square feet of offices, 800 residential units, and 200,000 square feet of high-quality retail to the city. The Union Park complex is an arrangement of three glassy towers on podiums: two are designed as near-mirror images, and the third will include housing with units specifically designed for families. Now that's what I call a lakefront!
August 5, 20195 yr 12 hours ago, shack said: Now that's what I call a lakefront! And they even have an airport on their lakefront too (GASP!) ?
August 5, 20195 yr 3 hours ago, Cleburger said: And they even have an airport on their lakefront too (GASP!) ? And it doesn't let a highway get in the way! No excuses.
August 5, 20195 yr On 7/22/2019 at 1:21 AM, ColDayMan said: Meanwhile, in Toronto... View from Mount Nemo by Alex Meoko, on Flickr Interesting that the skyline extends north away from the lakeshore as it does in Chicago.
August 29, 20195 yr "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 16, 20195 yr I've been neglecting my Toronto-watching assignment.... And with this skyline shot, showing a few cranes visible from a terrace at the Globe and Mail Centre office tower... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 16, 20195 yr 1 hour ago, skiwest said: It's hard to believe Toronto was very similar to Cleveland 50 years ago. That's fine to think about but in comparison they are very different... Toronto is the cultural/economic center for a whole country(even 50 years ago); 50 years ago Cleveland was arguably the 3rd or 4th most important in its region(Chicago, Detroit & Pittsburgh). I love Cleveland and I love Ohio, but step back for a minute and look at reality.
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