What’s with all these ridiculous mega towers that are never going to happen in the middle of an industrial park in Ajax? They all make no sense.

New 2-storey catholic high school proposed in Binbrook on the northeast corner of Fletcher Road and Binbrook Road. The current closed Catholic high school in Stoney Creek, Bishop Ryan, is absolutely bursting at the seams...

Microsoft is building two in the GTA - one at 48 Lowes, and one in Markham off Highway 7 at the 404. The highway 7 one is about twice the size of the Lowes one from my understanding, with two buildings proposed, but neither have moved beyond site grading yet. There is lots of pressure for new...

Yea, this winter is turning out to be rather extreme for Southern Ontario. The cold weather we are having (highs in the mid -teens and lows below -20) aren't uncommon, but we are having 2-3 weeks straight of it. Usually it's only for a few days at most before warming up. We also are not having...

Interesting. OL is still tracking a full decade of construction to completion? What's the critical component running that far behind?

Did you read my post? I Agree that the OSC should have stayed where it is. I was more so explaining the government's reasoning. That "debunking" doesn't debunk that the new facility will be cheaper (and inferior!) to the current facility.. which is why the province chose it. And it doesn't...

appeal on this appears to have been withdrawn and this is no longer an active application.

The US has plenty of expensive urban toll roads too. Canadians are most familiar with the thruways of the US northeast, which are indeed tolled relatively affordably.. But many aren't. The Washington DC Express lane network can get more expensive than the 407 in rush hours. There are plenty of...

That report only identifies immediate structural repairs to the roof. You are aware that there is far more to buildings than a roof, right? It doesn't even address the structural challenges of the bridge, which had been ongoing since 2022... The option wasn't "spend a few million to fix the...

so the renovation of a severely decaying heritage structure with high standards of restoration is likely going to be cheaper than building a new, smaller building? And that complex heritage restoration is less likely to go way over budget than the new construction? Not always how it works.

NSFW..

Eglinton LRT, you know, that one that is basically confirmed to be opening in 2 weeks? I could maybe see the Yonge extension take until 2040 to open.. but the rest won't be anywhere near that long. Hurontario will likely be 2027.. maybe 2028. Ontario Line is looking like it will be the early...

S.37 can be used for a wide variety of things. The developer basically agrees to provide $X million in benefits. Some times it's a cash payment, sometimes its something like providing land or purchasing land.. but that land still has a cost, and the City opts to direct that money to that cost...

nothing in the sense that it burned the S.37 benefit on it instead of something else.. nothing is free in this world. I'm sure that S.37 benefit had a significant commuted value.

The province announced the move of the OSC to Ontario Place over a year in advance of the emergency closure... I can tell you they were looking at it for years before that too before making the formal announcement. The 2021 Ontario Place announcement for Therme also included unlabeled buildings...