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This week's Throwback Thursday revisits a viewpoint we highlighted about five years ago, facing east over Front Street East in Toronto's St Lawrence neighbourhood from the rooftop amenity level of Market Square Condominiums. Our before photo takes us all the way back to October, 2005, when the neighbourhood and the areas to the east were still defined by mid-rise residential and industrial uses respectively.
It's been quite the decade and a half since, including the revitalization and infilling of the Distillery District in the mid-2000s, the build-out of the West Don Lands starting in the mid-2010s, and more recently, a wave of high-rise residential and office developments along Front Street. When we last highlighted this viewpoint as a Throwback Thursday feature in September, 2015, several new additions had joined the landscape. On the right side of the 2015 image below, Clear Spirit and The Gooderham can be seen adding new height in the Distillery District. In the centre, one of the green mechanical penthouse levels at Canary District Condos can be seen in the distance. Just left of centre, two tower cranes are working away at the site of the Globe and Mail Centre, with the upper levels of the topped out King + Condos visible to the left.
Five more years have passed since that photo was captured, and the view continues to change with new additions to the local skyline. The projects under construction in the 2015 photo above have all since wrapped up, while the next wave of buildings are now adding to the neighbourhood. In the left foreground, a crane towers over the site of the future St Lawrence Market North Building. Further to the east along Front Street, cranes tower over the northwest and southeast corners of Sherbourne and Front, respectively marking the construction sites for St Lawrence Condos at 158 Front and Time and Space Condos.
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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