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Every one of the hundreds of towers to break ground in Toronto in the past two decades has been built. Even a Cresford bankruptcy didn't leave their sites in peril for very long. The One continues rising too. What is happening here is novel for the city. It's better than the graffiti towers in...

Yup. There's cooking and there's opening a box of food and heating it. That "kitchen" is indefensible.

Place for renters to get a meal of value instead of having to cook one in their fancy Master Chef toy kitchen play set

Maybe five years ago when the first tower designs started popping up. Today, the architects have left Partisans leaving only the influencer behind. A flashy design is always beneficial when pursuing an aggressively dense intensification. Added bonus, don't actually have to build anything to...

Blue zone hotel. One of the zaniest gimmicks I've read in a long time. It's also genius.

For now it's just a zoning exercise among the 66 storey, 55 Yonge and the 75 storey, 320 Front in H&R's portfolio. This office tower, as of this moment, isn't destined to be demolished. These approve plans will increases property values regardless if the plan is to build or not.

Crane count went from 359 on New Years Day to 313 today. That's a good indicator of recessed market. It'll be a great day for construction if even the shortest tower starts. All three is playing the lottery thinking you'll eventually win.

That's not shoring. I would have guessed soil remediation. The STS geothermal signage indicates I would have guessed wrong.

You take a pension fund like Quebecor which has been a major player buying up newly built rental buildings all over Canada leaving the developer a minority stake and management rights. If they stop buying based on stagnating values than that will affect developers raising capital to build...

That sounds believable Monsieur Shake and Bake. It's being a long pre-leasing period for the rentals and the first tower is still unoccupied. Unless the plan is an international student ghetto with occupancies starting in mid August.

I don't think receivership precludes the cancellation of the project. In other words, your purchase agreement is still valid and you're stuck in it. The deposit is gone. It should have been insured and it's best to remain optimistic that it was.

It's a gimmick. A trick in facade colouring. I do like the aesthetics more than whatever inspired Sugar Wharf's facade. I also find it incredibly tacky in the context of Canadian symbolism on a private condo tower. However, some Canadian symbolism at a time when we are supposed to view...

Electrical has been buried for decades on Bloor and Bloor has already been reduced to two traffic lanes. Bathurst is still 4 lanes and the Steetcar grid is above ground. Reducing lanes on Bathurst would just make the 511 a pointless endeavour to ride. It will inch along in traffic. The TTC is...

Toronto has an affordability crisis. More development is going to increase construction costs even higher. Developers aren't in the practice to renting below costs or building too much housing yielding opportunistic rents The housing crisis a lame argument to support building a subpar dense...

There are many 4 storey elevator buildings being built with 10 to 30 units than sell for under $500 a square foot. I don't think the cost of an elevator is top of mind when a Toronto developer decides on speed over number of shafts. I would think it's the loss is saleable square footage on each...

good spot for a ball park (after extensive remediation of course)

Kingsett has signed on partners for this. That's why it's going ahead. Surely, one or another of their managed funds still has minority stakes in Concord Sky and The Pemberton too.

The GTA is grossly under storaged with only 1/2 the per capita square footage of the US. That is the main reason behind the multi-million dollar investment boom in storage units and it's a cash business

Just a crane parked on site. Could be for something next door. Only permits posted are for signs including two "Sugar Wharf" ground signs.

Would they ever be able to fill that lot? It seems excessive in any case. A better approach would have been half parking and half grass. (although locals may get too attached to the temporary grass)