With another busy month of city-building, transportation, and real estate talk now behind us, we round up July's hottest stories, dataBase files, and Forum threads. 

Our Top Ten News Stories

1. 80-Storey Residential Tower Proposed at 8 Elm Street

A worm's eye view of 80 Elm, image via submission to the City of Toronto

Our most popular news story from July covered a proposed 80-storey residential tower for 8 Elm Street in Downtown Toronto (while story #3 fills in more details of the project), with news of a settlement being reached with the City for the redevelopment of the massive Celestica site in North York in second place.

2. Settlement Reached to Redevelop Celestica Site in North York

3. Further Details Emerge For 80-Storey Proposal at 8 Elm Street

4. Major Residential Development Proposed for 350 Adelaide West

5. 49-Storey Tower Proposed for the Distillery District

6. Galleria Mall Redevelopment Assessed at Design Review Panel

7. Tall Building Setback Changes Proposed for Downtown Toronto

8. Revised CityPlace School & Community Centre Impresses at DRP

9. Visualizing Great Gulf's Completed One Bloor East

10. EY Tower: An Inside Look at the Concourse Building Replica

Our Top Ten dataBase Files

1. Ten York Street

Rendering of Ten York Street Condos, image courtesy of Tridel

Our most popular dataBase file of the month was that of Ten York Street Condos, followed closely by the dataBase files for The One and One Bloor East, both at the intersection of Yonge and Bloor.

2. The One

3. One Bloor East

4. Eight Cumberland

5. INDX Condos

6. 1-7 Yonge

7. The Well

8. 50 at Wellesley Station

9. Karma Condos

10. Sunday School Lofts

Our Top Ten Forum Threads

1. Ten York Street

Ten York on the rise, image by Forum contributor UrbanOptic

Tridel's 65-storey, Wallman Architects-designed condominium tower is drawing increased attention as the installation of cladding is beginning to reveal the development's exterior finishes. Similar to the dataBase file rankings from July, the second and third most popular Forum threads were One Bloor East and The One.

2. One Bloor East

3. The One

4. Sun Life Financial Tower and Harbour Plaza Residences

5. Union Station Revitalization

6. 88 Scott Street

7. Eaton Centre - Nordstrom Rebuild

8. 1-7 Yonge

9. INDX Condos

10. EY Tower

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