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- That the owners of 650 Parliament Street are charging displaced tenants rent, while they are away from their homes, is unconscionable. The Toronto Star reports.
- This CBC Toronto story about light pollution leaking over from a commercial building in Leslieville to nearby condos highlights a new problem for mixed-use districts.
- Urban Toronto takes a look at the latest version of a proposal for a mixed-used property at Lake Shore and Bathurst.
- blogTO notes that at least some politicians want to extend the underused Sheppard line of the TTC east to Kennedy station.
- Aparita Bhandavi at The Discourse notes how the recent elections confirmed the underrepresentation of non-white males in politics in Scarborough.
The condo towers along Lake Shore Boulevard, west of the Humber, really do stand out, for their density and for the eye-catching design of some.
Located at 450 Pape Ave., this 25,000 square foot heritage property is in desperate need of a facelift - even in the listing photos, some of its walls are in pretty bad shape. According to Metro News, the current owners had plans to turn it into a 28-unit condominium, but are now looking to sell.
Originally owned by William Harris, the property changed hands in the 1930s when the Salvation Army took it over and transformed it into a centre for single mothers.
Back in 2010, the City of Toronto wanted to turn the 25,000 square foot property into affordable housing units for artists. This plan, however, never materialized.
One of Toronto's most interesting development projects is currently underway at Bathurst and Lake Shore as the former Loblaw Groceterias warehouse has been almost completely reduced to rubble to pave the way for a new grocery store and condo complex.
To drive by heading south on Bathurst, it looks like many other projects of this type where an old building gives way to something new, but when you take a look at the south facade, you notice restoration work has been done on some sections of the old warehouse brick. It's kind of piecemeal, but it hints at the next stages of this massive project.
It's surely an example of facadism, but the plan here is to tear down the existing building before reassembling the south and west faces of the structure brick by brick. An addition will then be placed on top and condos will rise above the north side of the former warehouse.
Looking west from the patio of friends in their condo at Bathurst and Lake Shore, past the nascent condo developments, the storied Gardiner Expressway snakes on.
Lake Shore Boulevard is arguably the southernmost of Toronto's major streets, girdling the coastline of the western two-thirds of Toronto's waterfront. The intersection with Bathurst Street, meanwhile, is arguably the southernmost major intersection of that north-south street, located squarely in the middle of a rapidly growing condo district.
Douglas Coupland's Monument to the War of 1812, a controversial public sculpture I blogged about and photographed close-up, is visible to the left of the photo, past the TTC bus.
Compare this photo taken in September 2012, four months later. Construction has progressed since this photo was taken in May.
Douglas Coupland's Monument to the War of 1812, a controversial public sculpture I blogged about and photographed close-up, is visible to the left of the photo, past the TTC bus.
Compare this photo taken in September 2012, four months later. Construction has progressed since this photo was taken in May.
Bathurst below King Street, near Lake Ontario, is a neighbourhood constantly booming. New building emerge on a tight schedule.
The condos stretch out to the horizon.
Lake Shore Boulevard is arguably the southernmost of Toronto's major streets, girdling the coastline of the western two-thirds of Toronto's waterfront. The intersection with Bathurst Street, meanwhile, is arguably the southernmost major intersection of that north-south street, located squarely in the middle of a rapidly growing condo district.
Douglas Coupland's Monument to the War of 1812, a controversial public sculpture I blogged about/a> and photographed close-up, is visible to the left of the photo, past the TTC bus.
Douglas Coupland's Monument to the War of 1812, a controversial public sculpture I blogged about/a> and photographed close-up, is visible to the left of the photo, past the TTC bus.
