The neighbourhoods east of Toronto's Downtown Core have been growing taller in recent years, including the Garden District area where several new towers have sprouted in the last decade. This week's Throwback Thursday compares views facing northeast from Jazz, a rental tower at Shuter and Church, captured over two years apart. In July, 2017, a sunset view showed exterior finishes being added to Ryerson University's 30-storey Jarvis Street Residence, an IBI Group-designed student residential tower that was tipping off at the time. To its left, Pace, and then Core Condos on the left edge, dominate the remainder of the view.

Looking northwest from above Church and Shuter, July 2017, image by Forum contributor innsertnamehere

A slightly wider view captured in October, 2019, shows that the Jarvis Street Residence has since been joined by a host of new towers. The far right of the image in now taken up by the incomplete but topped out 88 North condominium tower, while the main cluster around Jarvis and Dundas has had three new towers added: Grid Condos and Dundas Square Gardens can be seen in the background occupying two corners of the Dundas and Jarvis intersection, while Max Condos is now rising in front of Pace in the middle distance.

Looking northwest from above Church and Shuter, October 2019, image by Forum contributor innsertnamehere

We will return next week with another look at the changing face of Toronto. In the meantime, you can submit your own Throwback Thursday comparisons in our dedicated Forum thread for your chance to be featured in next week's edition.

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