[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Lawrence Heights, waterfront, Distillery District, Chinatown

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• Christopher Hume at the Toronto Star notes how the ongoing attempt to revitalize Lawrence Heights will try to plug that neighbourhood back into the wider city of Toronto.


• Urban Toronto notes efforts by condo designers to make the Sugar Beach towers suitable for families.


• Ontario Place would be a perfect place for a swimming pier, wouldn't it? CBC reports.


• Daily Hive notes that the Distillery District will soon house the Collège Boreal.


• blogTO notes a classic Chinatown building on Spadina Avenue that has been given a terrible makeover.