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Originally Posted by ssiguy
It has so many proposed buildings because the vast majority will get built.
The City has relatively little room for massive infill due to brown fields or dying manufacturing areas so there is no where to go but up.
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Actually one of the largest, transformative downtown redevelopments on the planet is underway on the (now former) "brownfields" of the
Lower Don Lands (Portlands) - 880 acres and $1.5 to $2 billion just for flood protection (a new river valley among other things), site remediation ... and eventually parks, fish habitats, new communities, bridges, transit etc. (extra billions for that ;-).
And the enormous "beige" fields of the West Donlands (east of the core) has enjoyed a mega-make-over with dozens more new projects underway and still to come. Though not brownfields there other huge downtown make-overs underway like Regent Park, Alexandra park, East Bayfront etc. So the city has done/is doing a lot of work transforming neglected large downtown footprints.
Skyscraper Geek Tangent:
Media reports like “Toronto set to over-take Chicago in Skycrapers” often use the 100 metre or taller “yard” stick, but I personally think a skyscraper is 150 metres or taller... I did a Toronto snapshot using the 150 metric (+/- 1 metre). For the heck of it I added just 25% of the Toronto proposals (24 skyscrapers) to arrive at my informal built-construction forecast:
TORONTO = 119 skyscrapers with 25% of proposals included (using my 150m +/- 1 metre metric)
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Not including Mississauga ;-)