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It's absolutely astounding to see the amount of development going on in Toronto. Dizzying, really.
Crazy part is probably half of it isn't even posted in this thread. Seriously.
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Old Posted Apr 9, 2021, 9:23 AM
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Toronto in 2030 will be quite a city.
if all the proposals are built Toronto would have 75% of the numbers of skyscrapers as New York has now or more than New York had in 2010.
I still feel that Toronto building boom is still very much under the radar for people outside of Canada.

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Toronto in 2030 will be quite a city.
if all the proposals are built Toronto would have 75% of the numbers of skyscrapers as New York has now or more than New York had in 2010.
I still feel that Toronto building boom is still very much under the radar for people outside of Canada however.
It's really only skyscraper nerds on sites like this and some tourists who realize what's happening here. Toronto is going through one of those rare times when a city rockets ahead for decades and emerges at the other end a global powerhouse. If this boom can last another 30 years people might draw parallels to NYC 1850-1950 and LA 1900-2000.

If one takes inventory of 100m+ buildings the totals are telling. I used Greater Toronto Hamilton (BLUE) and the New York CSA (GREEN) as it speaks better to the shifts happening in each urban region. Limiting analysis to city cores negates a lot of the growth occurring in each. I used the SSP database. I'm not sure how accurate it is but this is what it says.


100m+ Buildings Completed: 866 vs 333
100m+ Buildings Completed + U/C: 905 vs 461
100m+ Buildings Completed + U/C + Proposed: 981 vs 849


Toronto: Toronto, Mississauga, Vaughan, Markham, Hamilton
New York City: New York, Fort Lee, Guttenberg, Jersey City, New Rochelle, Newark, North Bergen, West New York, Franklin Township, White Plains
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Scarborough Junction Masterplan | 156m | 48s | Republic | Giannone Petricone

Preliminary report heads to Scarborough Community Council in 2 weeks.

Some highlights of the plan:
17 residential buildings from 12 to 48 storeys (5.27 million square feet with 5,800 condo units, 800 rental units)
165,000 square feet of retail space.
a 40,000-square-foot community facility and a 10,000-square-foot daycare centre
a new 5,780-square-foot GO Transit station
a 4.63-acre park and a number of other public spaces
Some of the Masterplan renders/eye candy:


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KING Toronto | 57.6m | 16s | Westbank | Bjarke Ingels Group - u/c


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M3 at M City | 260m | 77s | Rogers Real Estate | IBI Group - u/c

One of Mississauga’s larger potholes (excavations ;-)

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Old Posted Apr 16, 2021, 4:51 PM
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Latest crane index (Q1 2021) numbers from RLB (NYC seems inaccurate).


Story here - https://storeys.com/toronto-q1-2021-cranes-index/

Sugar Wharf Condominiums (Phase 1) | 230m, 218m | 70s, 64s | Menkes | aA - u/c


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The One | 338.3m | 94s | Mizrahi Developments | Foster + Partners - u/c


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CIBC SQUARE | 241.39m | 50s | Hines | WilkinsonEyre - site prep

Phase 2 site prep

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Phase 1 nearing completion

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160 Front West | 240m | 46s | Cadillac Fairview | AS + GG - u/c


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Pinnacle One Yonge | 312.5m | 95s | Pinnacle | Hariri Pontarini - u/c

Super-tall excavation

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Mirvish Village (Honest Ed's Redevelopment) | 85m | 26s | Westbank | Henriquez Partners - u/c

Mixed-use including 800 residential units in 5 buildings.

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Mirvish+Gehry Toronto | 308m, 266.5m | 82s, 72s | Great Gulf | Gehry Partners - pre-construction

NY Times story on 92-old Frank Gehry which features some M+G model photos and thoughts on his hometown project: “My grandmother’s street is just up there,” Gehry said, pointing to a rendering on the wall. “My grandfather’s hardware store was here. So I hung out on this street.
“The city gave us extra height,” he added, “because it was me coming home.”

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Latest crane index (Q1 2021) numbers from RLB (NYC seems inaccurate).
This index is wildly inaccurate and should not be taken as gospel. I have no doubt that Toronto leads the pack by a good margin, but they are obviously missing a lot. Note that they do not show any cranes in Texas at all. In reality, Austin alone has as many as Calgary, and possibly even D.C. Dallas and Houston probably have similar numbers as well.
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Old Posted Apr 16, 2021, 5:55 PM
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This index is wildly inaccurate and should not be taken as gospel. I have no doubt that Toronto leads the pack by a good margin, but they are obviously missing a lot. Note that they do not show any cranes in Texas at all. In reality, Austin alone has as many as Calgary, and possibly even D.C. Dallas and Houston probably have similar numbers as well.
Also, NYC obviously has more than 10 cranes.

The list is released every year and usually has a fairly accurate count for Toronto but hilariously inaccurate numbers for the rest of the cities.
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Agree.
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300 The East Mall | 122m | 37s | KingSett Capital | BDP Quadrangle - site-plan application pending

Office, retail and 1023 residential units in 4 buildings (37s, 29s, 21s, 10s).

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Wonder | 32m | 8s | Graywood | Diamond Schmitt - u/c


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(below is the historic element 2 months ago)

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Foundry Park | 90m | 26s | Dream | COBE Architects - u/c

Rental units and retail in three buildings (26s, 16s, 16s).

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Wellington House | 57m | 17s | Lamb Development | architectsAlliance - partial demolition underway


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Demolition at the rear of the building.

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Red Mars

CIBC Square 1 early this morning.

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Toronto is a beast!

Historically, how does this current level of construction compare to the past?
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Old Posted Apr 19, 2021, 3:14 AM
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Toronto is a beast!

Historically, how does this current level of construction compare to the past?
There is more highrise construction activity post-greenbelt than pre-greenbelt

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River & Fifth Condominiums | 130.5m | 37s | Broccolini | Graziani + Corazza - u/c


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98 Queen East | 108m | 34s | Parallax | IBI Group - pre-construction


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A few new images.

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The Well | 174m | 46s | RioCan | Hariri Pontarini - u/c


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D'or Condos | 20s, 17s | Cityzen - u/c


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Tretti Condos | 45m | 13s | Collecdev | gh3 - u/c


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Aquabella at Bayside | 51m | 14s | Tridel | 3XN - u/c


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Pier 27 Phase 3 | 45s | Cityzen | aA - pre-construction


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I had a good laugh at that crane index map. There are more than 10 in my neighborhood in Queens right now.
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This index is wildly inaccurate and should not be taken as gospel. I have no doubt that Toronto leads the pack by a good margin, but they are obviously missing a lot. Note that they do not show any cranes in Texas at all. In reality, Austin alone has as many as Calgary, and possibly even D.C. Dallas and Houston probably have similar numbers as well.
10 cranes in NYC seems accurate to you? Also, an interesting crane count would include LA, Vancouver, a full NYC crane count, and especially Miami.
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10 cranes in NYC seems accurate to you? Also, an interesting crane count would include LA, Vancouver, a full NYC crane count, and especially Miami.
Agreed. It was already pointed out that the New York number was obviously wrong. I was just providing more obvious examples.
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No. 31 Condos | 137m | 37s | Lanterra | Arquitectonica - pre-construction

Westdale Properties and Lanterra are partnering on this handsome design from Arquitectonica and reported yesterday they expect a late-spring construction start
(the site has now largely been cleared).


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Ivy Condos | 102.5m | 32s | Dream | RAW Design - site prep/shoring


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Site prep from a few weeks ago.

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Waterworks Building Redevelopment | 47.55m | 13s | MOD Developments | Diamond Schmitt - u/c

Condo, institutional and retail (some residential floors are now being occupied).

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St Lawrence Condos at 158 Front | 91.5m | 26s | Cityzen | aA - u/c


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25 Mabelle | 159m | 49s | BDP Quadrangle - pre-construction

This nice infill project for Etobicoke was appealed to LPAT by the proponent due to the lack of a decision by the city (the hearing is now underway).

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Humber Bay towers.

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All of these a great.




This is a gorgeous infill development, both the tower and base. I wonder why the city didn't make a decision?

One of the legal remedies I've seen in NJ and elsewhere is for planning board's that play politics in delaying a decision is that the development becomes automatically approved if the board fails to take action as required by law. No one wants that of course, but it creates a strong incentive for all parties to follow the rules. There is the occasional story of a planning board may delaying a decision on a mosque that is legally allowed to be built in a zone that allows places of worship. It reeks of discrimination and the courts have called it out. Other times it's affordable housing - where the development meets all the zoning standards and all that's needed is site plan approval.

With all the development going on in Toronto right now, it seems odd that this is the one where the city and/or planning board fails to make a decision within the statutory timeframes. What's the back story here?
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The province gives the city 4 months to make a decision on an application then the developer has the ability to appeal it to planning court, which can choose to approve it without the city’s approval.

4 months is essentially an impossible timeline to meet for approvals. Absolutely no development gets council approval in that time.

Some developers just appeal as soon as they legally can as they figure it’s easier to get approvals in the courts than at council. Most don’t do that though, as it’s still typically slower and more expensive than council approval. Usually developers do it if the city planning department doesn’t approve of the application and is looking like they will be issuing a refusal recommendation to city council.

There are a dozen different “real” reasons a developer will appeal a project, but the technical legal reason is almost always “lack of decision”.
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Not sure where else to post this but the condominium project that'll practically hug the Bay building at Yonge n Bloor to the north is going ahead soonish it seems....this is the 85 metre, 25 floor tower proposed by Menkes, now called Adiago:
Along Yonge by Draulerin Photographics, on Flickr
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