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Index of threads describing Toronto's enormous urban change:
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I would say "you've gotta be fucking kidding me", but it's Toronto, so here we are...
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Metrolinx screens showing ads for a car share service instead of the next train tells you everything you need to know about that agency…
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Another day, another chance for Toronto developers to scrape the bottom of the fucking barrel on floorplans...
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The Well. The Master Thread.
What is it? Where did it come from? Who's behind it? What's the story?
I'm sure I'll miss stuff, so please ask questions and I'll try and respond!
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Huge day for this amazing project. First test trains over the viaduct. A full, 12 car set, powered by an MP40 & MP54.
It's funny to have watched this every day for the last three years & finally see the end result of all that labour. Congratulations to the whole project team!
Progress on the Davenport Diamond on
@GOtransitBR
is really shifting into high gear. Images from 9am, 10am, 11am & 1pm. The speed with which we're able to build this kind of infrastructure should be instructive for all sorts of transit projects across the City.
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@Mediocratestheg
@GershKuntzman
@NYPDChiefOfDept
The plates are modified, correct. He's just bringing them back in line.
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This city is so fucking embarrassing sometimes. Whatever was the point of these green spaces if we didn’t have the time, budget, care, skill, attention span, or desire to maintain them? It’s early June, we haven’t had snow or frost in months, and it looks like The Somme. Unreal.
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The evolution of a Toronto rezoning in four images. 1365-1375 Yonge Street: 2015, 2018, 2020, 2023.
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Why does this awesome, modern, bilevel, *electric* train have to sound like the fucking Collis Huntington special? For fucks sake. Absurd anachronistic garbage.
We are one step closer to the finish line!
Earlier today our new electric trains were tested in San Francisco. Thank you for everyone’s patience as we prepare for September! ⚡️
Please visit this weekend before departure.
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Initial images of the
@OntarioLine
trains from Connect6ix,
@HitachiRailENG
&
@Metrolinx
.
Trains to feature onboard Wi-Fi, digital passenger information screens, charging points, dedicated spaces for bicycles, double wheelchair areas, and continuous, connected carriages.
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I'm pretty sure no City has worse layouts than Toronto. WTF is going on here?
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FRA bells & horns are insane. There is NO romanticism in this *garbage*. Here is a regional service, departing from a multilevel terminus in a ~500K pop city. Why is it *ding donging* like a fucking Wild West choo-choo? It's fucking not!
Make. Rail. Sexy. And people will use it!
Spotted!
@Tri_Rail
leaving the Miami Central station! Pretty soon folks will be able to reach downtown Miami without transfers!
#bettertransit
#connectingcommunities
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🚨Existing residents are opposing CoA applications like this.🚨
It has *39 letters of opposition*. Do not let them win!
E-mail a quick letter of support to the City ASAP: debbiy.wong
@toronto
.ca before April 17.
This is *exactly* the kind of density & change this City needs!
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Toronto development scene in 2024: "Fuck, nobody's buying anything, it's all going south, what do we do?!"
Toronto development industry response: "What if we made all the units demonstrably *shittier*?!"
(Old plate above, new plate below)
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Seems like a pretty standard, Toronto, app: 50 storeys, 534 units, retail at grade. What's most exciting about this, however, is what's there now: 5, single-family, houses. Never mind missing middle or demoing existing apartments, this is the typology & scale we need everywhere!
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Two houses in Toronto could give way for stuff like this. Just make make the approval cheap and straightforward. Hell, you could even have architects standardizing plans based on lot size. Optional retail at grade, 0m side setbacks, 2 units per floor. Up and down the Yellowbelt.
Housing Lottery Launches for 11 Lewis Avenue in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
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Toronto can't stop Toronto-ing.
1025 The Queensway: Cineplex theatre & pad retail to 3.2M res GFA (4,222 units), 150K employment / office, & 27K retail.
2 local busses & no plans for new transit in sight. Ho boy.
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What's up at Bloor & Dufferin? Long story short: lots! After The Well, it's the largest single-phase development project being constructed in Toronto right now and, after Westbank's Oakridge Centre in Vancouver, likely the country. So what *is* going on here?
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Four excellent Queen East midrises. All of these should be as of right, but instead they took: 335 days (Pic 1), 365 days (Pic 2), 549 days (Pic 3) & 976 days (Pic 4) to approve. Would anyone looking at these projects today claim they were too tall? Not contextual? Block busting?
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Progress on the Davenport Diamond on
@GOtransitBR
is really shifting into high gear. Images from 9am, 10am, 11am & 1pm. The speed with which we're able to build this kind of infrastructure should be instructive for all sorts of transit projects across the City.
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If Toronto were truly serious about small-scale infill density: no angular planes, retail unit at the bottom, no parking, single stair…
this beats seattle's 4- and 5- story townhouses any day
6 story point access block. 💪💪💪
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You live in the fucking *Annex*, lobster boy
It's often 40 bloody below in Edmonton. Who's going to bike? Your grandmother? I don't think so. These 15-minute cities are just another fad hijacked by wannabe authoritarians using threats of apocalyptic doom to mask their desire for power.
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Alright, there's a lot of misunderstanding, and, to be frank, misinformation about what happened at Honest Ed's, or, as we now know it,
@VillageMirvish
. So let's take a second to clarify.
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Adelaide Street West & Widmer Street, Toronto.
2009 -> 2023
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Huge new app from
@kingsettcapital
&
@smithgillarch
at 646-664 Yonge St. 75 storeys (254m), 548 units. Most importantly, 0 car spaces & 614 bike spaces! From a policy perspective, what's most encouraging is the abandonment of OPA183/SASP382 which neutered many sites for too long.
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Resubmission of an striking one at 208 Bloor St W from
@BDPQuadrangle
&
@pureplaza
. Grew from 28 to 34 storeys & from 46 to 142 units. 0 parking, 128 bike spaces. Ultra luxury condos still don't seem to work in Toronto (at this price point, most just see more value in a house).
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Hey, that's weird, what's this newly-disused, already-constructed, above-grade, former rail line connecting points across downtown Scarborough?
Nope, certainly no High Line parallels here! Let's just continue to focus on downtown at the expense of every other former borough...
I adore The Bentway but the answer is no, based on sunlight exposure and utility alone.
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Huge announcement:
@DreamUltd
&
@GreatGulf
to develop Quayside with
@AdjayeAssocs
,
@AlisonBrooksArc
&
@HLArchitects
. Initial visioning looks great.
Let's hope the team can keep the aspirations shown here through the Toronto Costing Shredder...
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Fuck Around & Find Out Files: in 2016
@GairlochDev
&
@_archAlliance_
tried to do 22, 4 storey townhomes at 49 Lawrence West. City & residents took the project to the Board &, unfortunately, won. Now, 6 years later, a new owner &
@bortolottoarch
are going for 9 storeys & 40 units.
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Far more importantly though, they've eliminated all but 5 parking spaces and have introduced one of the best cycling facilities in the City (478 spaces). If we want to be serious about getting people to shift modes to bikes, this is *exactly* how you do it. Truly next gen stuff.
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@FuckCarsReddit
@TheMezzoo
What I don't get is how other countries see the infinite money pit and traffic morass that urban expressways *demonstrably have been for 70+ years* and go: "Oh yeah, let's have some of that please!"
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Great new app from Fairway Developments &
@Gabriel_Fain
for a tight site at 1728 Bloor Street West. 19 storeys, 99 units. These kinds of projects are tough, but they're exactly what Toronto needs more of. If they can be translated to larger, Neighbourhood sites, all the better!
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@TTMB9999
@Carzonfye
@NobleQAli
Huge residential density, open square, retail, community centre, office, multi-modal transit (local bus, BRT, subway). There certainly are issues with VMC, no question, but that's a pretty complete list of 'need-and-nice-to-haves' right there...
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Boy, ain't that some shit. The City is opposing this at OLT:
Really cool stuff here, folks. Great use of staff time and money. Just wins all around...
Great new app from Fairway Developments &
@Gabriel_Fain
for a tight site at 1728 Bloor Street West. 19 storeys, 99 units. These kinds of projects are tough, but they're exactly what Toronto needs more of. If they can be translated to larger, Neighbourhood sites, all the better!
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It's amazing when a new, 61 storey, building isn't much more than a footnote in a City's development news...
34 Maitland Street from Hazelview &
@TurnerFleischer
. 584 rental units, 6 elevators (good!), 93 parking spaces, 656 bike parking spaces including 80 electric bike spaces!
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New app from
@kingsettcapital
&
@BDPQuadrangle
for 135 Isabella Street. Existing, 10 storey, 80 unit, building would be demolished for new 69 storey, 770 unit structure. It's ridiculous that good-sized apartments like this are vulnerable, but stick built houses are kept in amber.
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Density + Transit = success.
@choicereit
&
@superkul
resubmitting 985 Woodbine (adjacent to Woodbine TTC station) at 35 storeys with 244 extra units.
Old plan, new plan, comparison:
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806 new units, 40% of which are 'family oriented', and 20% of which are 'affordable', a new, 1150sm public park, new POPS, new retail, institutional and office uses, incorporation of listed heritage buildings, a new cultural facility...It's a huge, huge, win.
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Taking a step back, it's worth remembering that construction is *fucking* cool. The United BLDG by Davpart &
@BHarchitects
, a 52 storey, 709 unit condo & office project going up right now, features the largest facade retention system ever deployed in Toronto (9 storeys + P4 U/G).
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The second milestone for the new viaduct this week, the first
@VIA_Rail
Canadian takes flight. Two F40s and a rake of 12 cars (plus the safety buffer bringing up the rear). What a sight!
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Adelaide Street West and John Street, Toronto.
2009->2022.
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New images of a redesigned 100 Simcoe from
@HaririPontarini
&
@BentallGreenOak
. Retail at grade, office in the podium & 61 storeys, 526 rental units above. 28 of these will be affordable for 40 years. Still far too much parking (214 spaces) but great bike parking (717 spaces).
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@this_is_walmer
That almost to a word couldn't be a more incorrect assessment of what happened here.
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Wild new app for 15-17 Elm Street. Fora Developments and
@partisansarch
. No info yet on unit count, but looks like 30 storeys, 99m.
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Great new app at 654 & 658 Danforth. 49 storeys, 496 units, 40k office space. Design has
@studiojci
at the helm.
Fourth image will be held up by
@CityPlanTO
that proposal is 'out of context' 'isn't good planning', but really it just shows the dire extent of Toronto's problem.
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A perfect diagram illustrating how fucking stupid an angular plane on a *two-storey laneway dwelling* is…
From Toronto’s public data portal, here is a new garden suite application working its way through the Committee of Adjustment process next month.
@HousesLaneway
MORE:
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Another day, another mall redevelopment proposed in Toronto. This time Jane & Finch Mall taking advantage of the
@FinchWestLRT
. Featuring work by
@BDPQuadrangle
&
@UrbStrat
, the first phase features 2,730 units, 50k retail, 5k community space & 5k daycare. Big park out back, too!
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Huge new app from
@ReserveProp
&
@ibigroup
at 15-19 Bloor West. 302m, 94 storeys, 1263 units. With only 8 elevators & a single Type-G, it will be a *terrible* place to live. As Toronto gets taller, we need to confront the fact that 60+ storeys is fundamentally different than 30.
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New app from Fora &
@GPAIAtoronto
coming to 2400 Dundas West, in between Dundas West TTC station & Bloor GO/UPX Station. Currently 18, 25 & 36 storeys with combined 873 units. Grocery store, retail, office/co-working, & live/work all proposed. Will be following this one closely!
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Another day, another house -> condo upgrade in Toronto. This time 8 semis to become a 34 storey, 390 unit building at 21-35 Henning Avenue. Madison Homes and
@TurnerFleischer
behind this one. 4 elevators (great!), 45 vehicular spaces, and 440 bike parking spaces are proposed.
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New transit investment? It's time to bulk up the density. Mount Dennis, the area around the new Mount Dennis transit facility (GO, UPX, Crosstown & Bus) is getting supersized. A plethora of new apps are now bringing thousands of units to an area which long flew under the radar.
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A friend just got some incredible shots of this beast under construction from the air. Enjoy!
What's up at Bloor & Dufferin? Long story short: lots! After The Well, it's the largest single-phase development project being constructed in Toronto right now and, after Westbank's Oakridge Centre in Vancouver, likely the country. So what *is* going on here?
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Absolutely GORGEOUS app from
@studiojci
at another developing node: Dufferin & Eglinton, taking full advantage of the under-construction Fairbank Station on the
@CrosstownTO
.
36 storeys (13.7 FSI) w 483 units including 15 *four* bedrooms - awesome! Only 24 parking spaces too!
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Huge resubmission of the Canada Square plans by
@OxfordPropGroup
,
@HaririPontarini
&
@UrbStrat
.
@PCPArch
is out & a complete rethink of the previous plan has occurred. Still 5 towers (now 45-65 storeys), 3m sf GFA total. 100 fewer vehicular spaces & 150 more bike parking spaces!
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Big new app from Canadian Tire &
@AdamsonAssociat
for the store at 839 Yonge Street. Plan proposes 2 towers (49 & 41 storeys) with 950 units. Full replacement of the CT store at grade with expansion onto levels 2&3 (193k sf total retail). POPS where Gas Station currently sits.
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A Queensway Streetcar? Either as a branch to the 501 or its own line from the Humber Loop. If everything happens as developers want, there's *plenty* of density to support it. Good connections to the Bloor Danforth & a great opportunity to reimagine a current car sewer.
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"The property owner building it is under absolutely no obligation to inform or consult with neighbours about it."
Outcomes would generally be better if more planning applications followed that dictum...
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What does affordability look like?
This beautiful little project from Percy Ellis &
@studiojci
. They should be as-of-right across the City & should come as a kit of parts from Rona or Canadian Tire.
Copy these *everywhere* & you'll start to bring affordability back in check.
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Here's a little project that isn't getting much shine, but it's one that should have substantial effects on ridership at this station & on this line: the movement of Oriole GO Station on the
@GOtransitRH
.
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It rocks that America would put each one of these people in their own car, then have them complain about ‘traffic’…
An excellent time-lapse of the crowds from two concerts at Olympic Park being taken home by train.
North Americans obsessed with stadium parking please take note
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