[PHOTO] CityPlace, December 2013
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rfmcdonaldIn December 2013, I took a walk west from Spadina into the new neighbourhood of CityPlace. This neighbourhood--bordered, as Wikipedia notes, by Bathurst Street to the west, Lake Shore Boulevard to the south, and Front Street to the north and Blue Jays Way and the Rogers Centre to the east--is the veritable heartland of Toronto's condos.
Built on the old Railway Lands west of Union Station used by the old Canadian National railway for storage and repairs, since the 1960s the area has been slowly built up. The CN Tower's construction occurred in the first phase of the Railway Lands' redevelopment. In the past decade, condo construction in CityPlace west of Spadina has boomed. Metro Toronto's Matt Elliott noted in 2012 that the electoral riding of Trinity-Spadina which includes CityPlace has one of the fastest-growing populations of any riding in Ontario, and the largest of any in Toronto. The Grid's Edward Keenan wondered in 2011 if, in future years, as the buildings deteriorate and if street life and transit links don't improve, CityPlace might become something of a ghetto.
For now, though, CityPlace is a dynamic neighbourhood with sky-reaching architecture. I'm a particular fan of the Puente de Luz pedestrian bridge spanning the still-used rail lines between Spadina and Bathurst (photos 6 through 8).
Built on the old Railway Lands west of Union Station used by the old Canadian National railway for storage and repairs, since the 1960s the area has been slowly built up. The CN Tower's construction occurred in the first phase of the Railway Lands' redevelopment. In the past decade, condo construction in CityPlace west of Spadina has boomed. Metro Toronto's Matt Elliott noted in 2012 that the electoral riding of Trinity-Spadina which includes CityPlace has one of the fastest-growing populations of any riding in Ontario, and the largest of any in Toronto. The Grid's Edward Keenan wondered in 2011 if, in future years, as the buildings deteriorate and if street life and transit links don't improve, CityPlace might become something of a ghetto.
For now, though, CityPlace is a dynamic neighbourhood with sky-reaching architecture. I'm a particular fan of the Puente de Luz pedestrian bridge spanning the still-used rail lines between Spadina and Bathurst (photos 6 through 8).
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