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It's about keeping the stretch on Church St between Gloucester & Wood St. with mid-rise developments, not high-rise. There's fierce pressure in east downtown now, and high-rises are going up all around the area, but the hope & fight is keeping the heart of the Village's neighbourhood character...

From Jarvis & Wellesley, June 29th .

I can't see this happening anytime soon, but I like it and nothing special is lost, and no heritage impacts. BlogTO chimes in -...

If the City got serious and chased it to get ownership in lieu of taxes, a brick cleanup, stripping the interior and rebuilding could serve to open much needed affordable housing, combined with market rentals. Street level provides for one or two retail opportunities. Every space like this...

Could this have been chopped to 95 floors? The Skytower websites are saying it's 95 storeys now. The Sky Villa suites are 90-94, then it looks like one more floor, presumably a PH on 95.

We've been bitching about Pinnacle's buildings here for 20 years. This one hurts a bit more because of its extraordinary height. The crane was lifted Sunday. From my POV @ Wellesley & Jarvis on Sunday evening.

Scientology is a problem along here, but the whole stretch south of Bloor to around Dundonald is in a sorry state. So many shops are closed, boarded or gated and new developments have most of their commercial space empty, and still available to lease. Part of it are 3 condo highrise...

I’m betting 12 stories, hence only two elevators, they know 26 levels won’t fly.

An example of the finished (almost) product, looking better than renderings. Bravo. Bit by bit, CF needs to continue opening retail units to the street where ever possible north of here, even if it's just windows and glass exits. Same with the former Eaton's store, and The Bay building at...

It hurts that this eyesore will finally shut down my CN Tower view.

Facade retention and restoration is one of the greatest moves forward since this boom began. It's helping save character of downtown east, and other character areas.

77 Davisville is up for sale by Greenrock, site for potential growth. 30 storey apartment rental as a “tower in a park”. Balliol St bottom, Davisville St top.

I went back 12 pages in Buildings and see no post, so here we go. The Village Green Property is up for sale in the heart of the Church Wellesley Village. A Greenrock property at 77 Davisville is also listed. It’s not known what can be proposed here, at the Village Green site, anything...

This is an outrageous application, but nothing truly surprises me anymore. The building will at best only briefly shadow the north/east corner at the back of Barbara Hall Park at sunrise. The 100 Wellesley low rise additions got chopped back as an overbuild of the site (it's a “tower in the...

It would be ridiculous to suggest adding a Gerrard subway stop with all this insane density to come by the end of the decade. The PATH should have a more prominent place here with Planning given all this massive development, especially on the west side from Elm St.to College station for winter...