City's downtown population surges

[AndreaPalladio]

I'm glad I'm not shelling out for it, or for the inevitable special assessment when the lawsuit happens.

 

[Ahab]

When I referred to childcare in the building, I didn't intend to suggest childcare operated by the condo itself. There already are a number of condos with childcare and I think the only reason there is is because the City required the builders to put in the necessary space. However, my understanding is that the childcare is operated by a private company that rents the space just like Starbucks or a bank.

I can appreciate the liability issue surrounding a play area though. Surely, this is where the City needs to step up to the plate to deal with the matter if it is serious about encouraging families to remain in the core.

 

[unimaginative2]

AP, the daycare isn't operated by the condo corporation. The space is leased out for the purposes of a daycare, which the city requires as a condition of approval.

 

[AndreaPalladio]

Ah, that makes sense.

 

[urbandreamer]

Where south of the 401 can you buy a 3 bedroom house for less that half a million dollars

here: http://www.mls.ca/PropertyDetails.a...rt=2&of=1&ps=10&o=A&Mode=0&PropertyID=6280476
$199,000!!! (shh i might buy it for myself!)

here: http://www.mls.ca/PropertyDetails.a...rt=2&of=1&ps=10&o=A&Mode=0&PropertyID=6150311
$288,000

here: http://www.mls.ca/PropertyDetails.a...rt=2&of=1&ps=10&o=A&Mode=0&PropertyID=6262354
$240,000

here: http://www.mls.ca/PropertyDetails.a...rt=2&of=1&ps=10&o=A&Mode=0&PropertyID=6308141
$280,000 (it's my favourite!)

here: http://www.mls.ca/PropertyDetails.a...rt=2&of=1&ps=10&o=A&Mode=0&PropertyID=6208700
$330,000

here: http://www.mls.ca/PropertyDetails.a...rt=2&of=1&ps=10&o=A&Mode=0&PropertyID=6208700
$350,000


All in old-fashioned and beautiful old urban-stylish East York/Danforth! I'd rather live@Donlands/Danforth than Oshawa, Milton, Cambridge, Barrie! for same amount of money.

 

[dt_toronto_geek]

2 - 2+den/solarium condos (often easily converted to a 3rd bdrm.), 1200-1700 sq. ft. can be found in good buildings downtown for 300K-400K

 

[Towered]

There is a belief that families are better brought up in the suburbs. Just having more larger condo units built wont change that public perception.

Unfortunately that belief seems to be unique to North America.

 

[Towered]

A friend of mine during a recent move looked at several large Victorians priced between 350 and 400 thousand, so these places do in fact exist!

 

[billonlogan]

Buyer Beware

Buyer beware with some of the older houses. A friend recently bought a place for under $300K in the Coxwell and Gerrard area. Three bedroom with private drive in the rear, mature maples and close to downtown where he works. Get a house inspection and be prepared to sink some more money. Old and antiquated electrical, termites, rotting wood, broken drains and moulds. He put in a $100K worth of repairs and renovations and flipped it for a small profit. Interesting enough, he sold the house privately to a couple with one child and another on the way.

 

[AndreaPalladio]

Unfortunately that belief seems to be unique to North America.

Outside of New York, where children are reared in apartments and yet grow to be perfectly productive members of society.

 

[King of Kensington]

If they say 169,000 live "downtown" that's actually quite a generous definition. But for some reason unlike any other city I know of in Toronto "downtown" seems for some to encompass all of the (pre-amalgamated) city proper.

 

[adma]

If that's the case, "downtown" would be 169,000 x 4 or 5...

 

[King of Kensington]

I agree I was just taking issue with the idea that 169,000 was a narrow definition of downtown. It just gets on my nerves when people think Riverdale is "downtown" or Yonge and Eglinton is "downtown." These are urban areas but certainly not downtown.

One common definition of downtown though I've heard is Bathurst to the Don, below Bloor.

 

[unimaginative2]

I think that's what they're including as the area with 169,000 people, or more specifically Davenport/Rosedale Valley/Don/Lake/Bathurst.

 

[adma]

I agree I was just taking issue with the idea that 169,000 was a narrow definition of downtown. It just gets on my nerves when people think Riverdale is "downtown" or Yonge and Eglinton is "downtown." These are urban areas but certainly not downtown.

Yeah, I get it. Like in NYC, all of Manhattan might be "downtown" by that definition...