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Throughout October, UrbanToronto is celebrating 20 YEARS, with stories looking back over the last two decades. Each day we are also checking out our ever-changing street scenes, comparing an older "Then" shot with an up-to-date "Now" shot.
The images above and below both look south along Yonge Street from Gerrard, the Then shot above from December 2005, and the Now shot below from this September. In the heart of the city, it's an area that most Torontonians will be familiar with… but here as in so many areas of the city, the degree of familiarity with the cityscape is closely related to how recently you last saw it because of just how quickly things change here. In the Then image above, the white-striped towers of the Eaton Centre dominate the skyline, the closer one to us partially hidden behind the darker Atrium on Bay building. In the Now image below, the Eaton Centre towers still stand out, but most of the Atrium on Bay is now hidden behind the two-toned condo called Panda, completed just last year by Lifetime Developments. Meanwhile, the extreme left of the image shows even more recent change, with the building on the southeast corner of the Yonge and Gerrard intersection no longer the home of La Maison du Croissant nor The Big Slice, but its walls are now being held in place as Concord Adex digs behind them to create Concord Sky, an 85-storey condo soon to rise here.
Come back tomorrow for another Then and Now from over UrbanToronto's last two decades!
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Thank you to the companies joining UrbanToronto to celebrate our 20 years in business.
