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Fengate closes on transit-oriented purpose-built rental site in Etobicoke
Ontario, Canada · Ontario

Fengate closes on transit-oriented purpose-built rental site in Etobicoke

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TORONTO, July 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fengate Asset Management (‘Fengate') is pleased to announce the closing of a landmark purpose-built rental development site at 4–10 Beamish Drive in Etobicoke, a strategic, transit-oriented parcel located just steps from the Kipling Transit Hub. Adding to its growing multi-family portfolio, Fengate is managing this investment on behalf of the LiUNA Pension Fund of Central and Eastern Canada (‘LiUNA'), a…See the Story
BREAKING: College Park Redevelopment Looks to Scale Up Grandeur, Height
Toronto, ON · Toronto

BREAKING: College Park Redevelopment Looks to Scale Up Grandeur, Height

GWL Realty Advisors' plans for College Park are easily the most ambitious development project in Toronto since The Well. The landmark at the southwest corner of Yonge and College streets is one of the city's grandest complexes, with numerous features that make it an irreplaceable commercial heritage asset, even if it has been bastardized to a degree over the years, and even if it was never realized as grandly as the Eaton family originally inten…Read Article
56-Storey Rental Tower with SickKids Facilities Proposed in Church-Wellesley Village
Toronto, ON · Toronto

56-Storey Rental Tower with SickKids Facilities Proposed in Church-Wellesley Village

Minto Communities and SickKids have submitted a proposal for a 56-storey mixed-use rental tower at the northwest corner of Jarvis and Maitland streets in Downtown Toronto’s Church-Wellesley Village. Designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects, the development would include rental replacement units along with the new rental units, and would partially retain SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health’s existing facility while adding new institutional …Read Article

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Therme Increases Free Public Access Green Space in the Design of Its Ontario Place Waterpark and Spa

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Biidaasige Park: Nest With Skyline Views

Toronto's newest park, pronounced bee-daw-si-geh, opened this past weekend in the Port Lands. Centred around a newly created winding mouth for the Don River, it looks like beavers — abnormally tall ones — came through and chopped all the trees off, but the trunks are there to create habitat for wildlife to call their homes as the plantings mature over the coming years. In this image by UrbanToronto Forum contributor hawc, a pair of swans are nes…Toronto, ON · TorontoRead Article

Cladding Advances on 50 Scollard in Yorkville

Since UrbanToronto’s last update when 50 Scollard had recently topped off at the start of 2025, glazing and cladding installation now covers much of the tower’s distinctly stepped and svelte form. Rising 41 storeys at the northeast corner of Bay and Scollard streets, the luxury condominium from Lanterra Developments is designed by Foster + Partners with Arcadis serving as Architect of Record. The slender tower continues to take shape in Toronto’…Toronto, ON · TorontoRead Article

18-Storey Tower Could Replace Bakery, Car Wash at St Clair and Caledonia

The low-rise intersection of St Clair Avenue West and Caledonia Road could see a dramatic change in the coming years as plans have been submitted for an 18-storey mixed-use building on the northeast corner. Designed by KFA Architects and Planners for Blockwall Masonry 18 Inc., the proposal would rise in Toronto’s Corso Italia neighbourhood, about one kilometre east of the planned St Clair–Old Weston GO station. Three of the intersection’s four c…Toronto, ON · TorontoRead Article

12-Storey Rental Proposed on Lake Shore near Royal York in Mimico

A stretch of Lake Shore Boulevard West near Royal York Road in Etobicoke could soon see a significant new building, where Insoho Developments has submitted plans to the City of Toronto for a 12-storey rental apartment building. Designed by Wallman Architects, the proposal would rise as the tallest mid-rise in this area of mostly low-rises. It replaces plans for a cancelled three-storey townhouse project by a previous owner.Looking northwest to 2…Toronto, ON · TorontoRead Article

Westerly Condos Top Off in Islington Village with Cladding Nearly Complete

The two towers of Tridel and Hollyburn Properties' Westerly Condos have progressed significantly on Cordova Avenue in Etobicoke's Islington Village area. Now both topped off and with cladding installation nearing completion, their cranes have also been removed UrbanToronto’s last update in September, 2024. Designed by Kirkor Architects and Planners, the 20- and 27-storey residential buildings occupy an irregularly shaped lot on the east side of …Toronto, ON · TorontoRead Article

Yonge Street Resubmission in Rosedale Bounces Height to 35 Storeys

Rosedale may be known for its heritage charm and leafy streets, but a new proposal would reach unprecedented height on the stretch of Yonge Street between Summerhill and Rosedale stations. Zinc Developments and ProWinko have returned to the City with a significantly revised application for 1087 Yonge Street, now seeking to replace a previously approved 15-storey tower proposal with a 35-storey tower designed by architects—Alliance. Looking north…Toronto, ON · TorontoRead Article

Slow Zones: Toronto Transit in a Sorry State of Repair

Since the pandemic, the TTC has started doing more regular and detailed scans of subway tracks for various defects and deformities that could damage infrastructure, trains, and potentially create safety hazards including derailments — probably spurred on by the derailment on the Scarborough RT, which was notably in a poor state of repair and being maintained not to ensure high-quality service in the long run, but to keep it operating long enough…Pandemic · TorontoRead Article

News Roundup for July 17, 2025

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