Shortly after 5 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam (Ward 27, Toronto Centre–Rosedale) reached an agreement over the phone with a demolition company, to halt work that had begun that morning at the back of 81 Wellesley Street East. An hour later, as the equipment was moved to the front of the property, a [...]

In April, reporters learned that there was a general consensus among Mayor Ford’s close allies that the City, in partnership with private companies, could do a better job of redeveloping Toronto’s shoreline than Waterfront Toronto, the arms-length agency created by all three levels of government in 2001 to do exactly that. Now we have some [...]

Work is proceeding on a new pedestrian bridge that is set to connect CityPlace to Front Street West. The project, funded by CityPlace developer Concord Adex, will run from the area around the new Parade Condos, in the south across the rail corridor, to an area between Portland and Draper on the Front Street side. Work is being done by the MMM Group.

After almost a decade of sitting idle, and briefly under threat by a controversial condominium development, the Humber Cinema at Jane and Bloor has recently reopened for business.

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A photo of the sculpture taken June 6. Photo by Christopher Drost/Torontoist. A neighbourhood mystery sprung up in Liberty Village last week, when locals spotted construction workers installing something big and scary. A post over on The Grid alerted us to the new piece of art going up in Liberty Village Park, but at the [...]

Eye Weekly The Grid isn’t the only Toronto publication unveiling a new design today. (We’ll have more on that one in a short while.) Hardcore city geeks have known for a while that Urban Toronto is a great resource for learning more about the shape of development here, and for picking up detailed information about [...]

Getting behind the gates of Pinewood Toronto Studios is kind of exactly like securing a golden admission ticket to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Except instead of chocolate waterfalls, everlasting gobstoppers, and jolly, ginger-skinned Oompa-Loompas, Pinewood has well-maintained offices, an impressive ventilation system, and a muddy old berm out back. And a whole lot of movie [...]

A rendering of the proposed redevelopment, designed by Kirkor Architects. The Shops on Steeles and 404, situated right at the corner of Don Mills and Steeles, is something of a suburban outlier. In addition to having a sort of unwieldy name, it was never designed with a movie theatre or huge anchor stores (the former [...]

In November, notorious U.S. website Gawker listed Toronto as one of five cities Americans might move to in order to escape the Tea Party. Amidst the usual compliments of how clean and multicultural we are, they also threw in a dig that hit a little too close to home: "there's a weird inferiority complex thing going on in Toronto that just gets a little sad after a while." Ouch.

One of Martindale’s tents, on a side street near Trinity Bellwoods Park. If you can’t afford a condo on Queen West, have you considered a lovely makeshift tent in the heart of Trinity Bellwoods Park? It wouldn’t come with a stainless steel refrigerator, and you’d never be able to fit a seventy-two-inch HDTV in there, [...]

One of several barber shops on the Mount Dennis stretch of Weston Road; the area is one of thirteen priority neighbourhoods. Photo by Nick Kozak/Torontoist. Selected candidates for the mayoralty of Toronto are having a debate tonight—live at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, and streaming now on 680News. The debate is co-organized by [...]