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A mix of townhouses, stacked townhouses, and a six-storey lowrise condo building at Creditview Road and Lagerfield Drive, just west of Mount Pleasant GO Station. Combined with existing new development, and the proposed Daniels development just to the south, there's a good bit of density going in...

Proposal for a 23-storey, 190-unit residential unit building with ground floor retail for 7800-7890 Hurontario Street in Brampton, a few hundred metres south of Steeles Avenue. The development would replace a gas station and auto repair garage, and is half way between two stops on the future...

A mid-to-high density multi-building development is proposed by Daniels on Bovaird Drive West, east of Mississauga Road. This is walking distance to Mount Pleasant GO Station. A total of 1,241 units are proposed, including six mid-rise apartment buildings, twelve to fifteen stories each...

New proposal for Downtown Brampton, located just north of the CN railway, across Main Street from the GO Station. http://www.brampton.ca/EN/City-Hall/Documents/Public%20Meeting%20Notices/2018/Item%209-%20Weston%20Consulting%20-%20Rose%20Garden%20Residences%20Inc.%20%20Ward%201.pdf Each of...

Via Globe and Mail/Bloomberg: More at Bramptonist, a local source: http://bramptonist.com/shoppers-world-to-be-redeveloped/ The mall's GLA would be reduced from the current 781,067 sq ft. At its peak, the mall had Simpson's (later the Bay, now demolished with a Bad Boy on the site), Pascal's...

Head to Caplansky's! Zane Caplansky (@Caplansky) and Sewer-Ann Levy are having a wonderful twitter fight. SAL isn't happy that Caplansky - the classy Jewish owner of a very Jewish deli (perhaps not the smoked meat poutine) - is sponsoring the Palestinian film festival. SAL is at her worst. And...

While Georgia-Pacific (former Dixie Cup) at Queen and McMurchy is still a going concern, the City of Brampton is planning for the area's long-term future, including the eventual closure of that factory. The removal of the Dixie Cup railway spur also allows for some changes. It's a rather...

Boom goes the dynamite. The New Democrats vote against the budget; election likely for June 12.

The mayoral race in Brampton is heating up. Not only is councillor John Sanderson running against long-time incumbent Susan Fennell, Liberal Cabinet Minister Linda Jeffrey, a former Brampton councillor, is running. Susan Fennell's time is up, thankfully.

Looks like the race to replace Hazel McCallion has two front runners: Bonnie Crombie and Steve Mahoney. Interestingly, both are Liberals. Mahoney has been in politics in 1978 (same year McCallion became mayor) when he ran as a councillor. He was also an MP and MPP.

For discussion on the individual wards. To start, Peter Leon (Ward 3), appointed to replace Doug Holyday, is considering breaking his promise and running for council. Paul Ainslie pulled the same stunt (a conservative, appointed in near the end of the Lastman era) but ran in a neighbouring ward.

From the Toronto Star's Website: Oshawa votes to oust auditor general in wake of controversial report Excerpt from article by Jessica McDiarmid: There's two videos embedded in showing older gentlemen arrested by plain-clothes cops in Oshawa Council Chambers. In the shorter, non-YouTube...

This is a new highrise tower connected to an older 11 floor slab apartment building just east of Downtown Brampton. Nothing special, architecture appears mediocre (but not terrible). The only things that make this interesting is that this is an urban intensifcation project, using an old...

Due to a rather unfortunate cycling injury on my way to work on a nice, clear January day (long story short, I avoided being cut off by a pick-up and hit streetcar tracks, shattering my knee, for which I am still recovering. So I'm staying elsewhere for a few months, giving up my second-floor...

I was in Calgary two weeks ago and took photos of the West and Northeast extensions of the C-Train network. The West LRT is something else. It will feature both the first elevated and tunneled LRT stations. The Sunalta station, elevated, will connect the far western end of the city centre and...

I'm moving out of my apartment in North York and moving closer downtown. I'm just looking for a good, professional crew to move the furniture and heavy boxes, a cube van ought to be enough room to hold everything. There's enough horror stories in the moving business, so I'm looking for anyone...

The building is now demolished, but the old headquarters for Toronto Township, later the Town of Mississauga, was located in a modern building in Cooksville. I was looking for these pictures, taken in 2008, before, but finally found them. I believe it was the City Hall for the new City of...

I clearly remember Consumers Distributing, as it was in my local mall growing up. I remember how it brought the Soviet shopping experience to Canadians - fill out form, wait in line, find out item was not in stock. In the early 1990s, it tried to rebrand itself with a new logo and...

This item is up for debate at Brampton's Planning and Development Committee: http://www.brampton.ca/en/City-Hall/meetings-agendas/PDD%20Committee%202010/20100908pdd_G3.pdf The plan is for a regional shopping mall (over 1,000,000 square feet) plus outdoor lifestyle shopping, offices, condos...

It has been a while since I posted a full photo thread, but I spent a day last week wandering around Kitchener-Waterloo by foot and bus. I am really impressed with some of the stuff going on in Downtown Kitchener. Here's some highlights from the photos I took (many more are on Flickr)...