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Our annual Growth To Watch For series is back for another year, bigger, taller, and more comprehensive than ever before. This year's Growth to Watch For reports are presented by NEEZO Studios. Over the course of the year, we will bring you to every significant development happening across the 416 and beyond into the Greater Toronto Area. We're covering everything from brand new proposals, to those inching their way through the planning process, to those under construction or about to be completed.
A total of 21 reports from Toronto and additional reports from the surrounding 905 will be available to subscribers throughout the year. (Details of how to get the reports can be found at the bottom of this article.) For a taste of what's offered in the third report in our 2020 series, here's a sneak peek at some of the contents.
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This report begins at the intersection of The Queensway and Windermere Avenue. From here, we continue moving west to focus on the emerging developments of South Etobicoke, which has experienced tremendous growth in recent years. The area covered in this report includes the booming Humber Bay Shores area, which has has fashioned its own skyline, rivaling that of other suburban Toronto development nodes. Beginning just west of High Park in Swansea then crossing the Humber into Etobicoke, our list includes all developments nearing completion, all projects under construction, and an ensemble of new proposals working their way through the planning process.
Large-scale development is concentrated in a few different nodes within the area covered in this report, the tallest and densest of which is the Humber Bay Shores neighbourhood. Several condominium towers are both under construction and in planning for the area, including work wrapping up for the current tallest in the neighbourhood, the 228-metre-tall tower at Empire Communities' Eau du Soleil Condos, set to complete construction later this year.
The area's biggest coming change was announced last year, when plans were revealed for the former Mr. Christie's cookie factory at 2150 Lake Shore Boulevard West. The proposed community, master-planned by Allies and Morrison and Urban Strategies for First Capital and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, would consist of 15 towers—one as high as 71 storeys—along with a mix of commercial, hotel, and public space as well as a new Park Lawn GO Station.
Another emerging node is the area covered by the City's Mimico-Judson Secondary Plan, a large tract of railside industrial lands in the vicinity of Mimico GO station. Multiple projects are in various stages of approval in this area, including a proposed 25-storey residential tower at 25 Audley Street, 12, 26, and 37-storey residential buildings at 23 Buckingham, 22, 30, and 36-storey residential buildings at 39 Newcastle, and 20- and 24-storey towers known as Grand Park Village at 10 Audley Street.
One thoroughfare with major changes planned and already underway is The Queensway, home to a long list of projects covered in this report. These include everything from mid-rise infill projects on the street's eastern stretch all the way up to master-planned area redevelopments concentrated in the stretches to the west. In the former category, Queensway Park at 784 The Queensway is among the many Beer Store site redevelopments across the city. Among the larger-scaled redevelopments coming to The Queensway, a mixed-use intensification of the Sherway Gardens shopping centre and another master-planned community to the north at 1750 The Queensway would add significant density to the area.
New Growth to Watch For 2020 reports are to be released on an ongoing basis, each covering a different section of the Greater Toronto Area. The series' upcoming 4th report will move into the South Etobicoke area.
Subscribers can get access to the complete existing and future reports for the year on our Growth to Watch For 2020 landing page. Subscribe today as a standalone subscription purchase for $199+tax, and you'll receive access to all reports.
The full list of the Toronto Growth to Watch For 2020 instalments includes:
2. King & Queen West, Liberty Village & Parkdale
3. South Etobicoke
4. Etobicoke Centre & Bloor West
5. Dupont, the Junction, & St. Clair West
6. North Etobicoke & Weston
7. York to Yorkdale to York Mills
8. Downsview & York University
9. North York Centre & Willowdale
10. North Scarborough
11. Central Scarborough
12. Beaches, Leslieville, & The Danforth
13. East York & Don Mills
14. Midtown: Eglinton to St. Clair
15. Bloor-Yorkville & Rosedale
16. Corktown-Regent Park-Cabbagetown
17. Jarvis & Church Corridors
18. Downtown Toronto North
19. U of T, West of Downtown
20. Downtown Toronto Core
21. Toronto's Central Waterfront
Additional reports will cover development in the surrounding '905' region.
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