Time to round up another month of city-building, transportation, and real estate activity in Toronto, with a look at our hottest news stories, dataBase files, and Forum threads from the month of April.

Our Top Ten News Stories

1. Retailers Announced for Canary District in the West Don Lands

Our most popular news story from April covered the announcement of the first seven retailers who will set up shop in the West Don Lands, as part of DundeeKilmer's Canary District development. Our second most popular story in April highlighted the ten tallest buildings currently under construction in Toronto.

Retail space lining Front Street, image courtesy of DundeeKilmer

2. Toronto's Ten Tallest Buildings Now Under Construction

3. KingSett Capital Proposes 62- and 73-Storey Towers for Yonge Street

4. Westbank and Allied Propose 57-storey Tower for 19 Duncan Street

5. Union Station York GO Concourse Opening

6. Visualizing Toronto's Future: Potential Uses of a 3D Model

7. Spectacular Toronto Views a Promise at Spadina and Bremner

8. Toronto East of the Don River: Growth to Watch for in 2015

9. Metrolinx Preparing For Massive GO Transit Service Expansion

10. Province Announces Intention to Move Forward on Finch West LRT

Our Top Ten dataBase Files

1. Union Station Revitalization

The long-awaited opening of the new York Concourse at Union Station in late-April was one of the factors that drove the dataBase file for the Union Station Revitalization to the top spot for the month. Following close behind, the dataBase file for One Bloor East also generated much traffic.

Union Station Revitalization, image courtesy of NORR Architects

2. One Bloor East

3. Pan Am Village in the West Don Lands

4. Daniels Waterfront - City of the Arts

5. Quartz at Concord CityPlace

6. L Tower

7. The Residences of 488 University Avenue

8. 385 Yonge Street

9. The One

10. Karma Condos

Our Top Ten Forum Threads 

1. One Bloor East

In addition to taking second place for our top ten dataBase files of April, One Bloor East landed the top spot for April's most viewed Forum thread, as the 75-storey tower rises high above its surroundings at the southeast corner of Yonge and Bloor.

One Bloor East, image by Jack Landau

2. Ïce Condos

3. Sun Life Financial Tower and Harbour Plaza Residences

4. FIVE Condos

5. Bay Adelaide Centre

6. L Tower

7. INDX Condos

8. Picasso

9. EY Tower

10. Ten York

We will return next month for a recap of May's top news stories, dataBase files and Forum threads!