I live in the neighbourhood and am also curious about the retail here. I would think with a high profile building like this with a hotel etc., they would want to get that retail space filled ASAP. I think someone on here mentioned The Keg, which sounds a little strange for here. I believe there...

Seeing this rendering, it's a shame that 1 Bloor will now inevitably be a shorter building. It truly helps define the skyline by shooting that high up in the north end of downtown. Remember what the New York skyline looked like with the WTC towers? They always seemed to tower over even the...

Thanks interchange for pointing all those out. I was staring at that map frustratingly trying to get my bearings, but things weren't making sense. Wow, this is going to be a very dense neighbourhood by the time all these are finished. And there's a similarly scaled building going on the south...

Thanks cdr. It's interesting to look at that timing. No doubt, the CMHC was influenced by the rising popularity of riskier mortgage practices in the States. Thankfully they didn't go nearly as wide open as they did down south. Hopefully they tighten it up even more - although I have to say that...

Hmmm. Maybe politicians are keeping their eyes on UT... :) New home buyers may face down-payment hike http://www.yourhome.ca/homes/realestate/buyingahome/article/741360--new-home-buyers-may-face-down-payment-hike

Amazing job. It's amazing seeing the difference in density over just 10 years. BTW, what's that round looking building between L Tower and the CN Tower in the rendering? Sometimes it's hard to place things at this vantage point.

I think the building behind it is technically a separate building, although they are joined by that walkway over the alley. There are a bunch of different businesses in there, and some people living in there too - whether legally or illegally. I know someone who gets their haircut somewhere in...

This is a shame in many ways. I have some of my best memories growing up in this venue, including all-ages shows I wouldn't have been able to see anywhere else, including the ATDI shows mentioned in the article. I've seen and played some of the best shows of my life here, but if the CB2 rumour...

I have a friend with season tickets in Buffalo. The price of one the lower bowl tickets to this Toronto game is nearly the cost of his lower bowl endzone tickets in Buffalo for the entire season. While there definitely will be more expensive markets in the States, these costs are crazy, and...

Oddly enough, I just saw one of those "TO in TO" ads on TV, despite the fact that the game was 4 days ago. Seems like a waste of someone's advertising dollars. And makes Rogers look even a little more ridiculous.

Couldn't agree more with pretty much all of this. If rules for cyclists were more in line with common sense instead of treating them like cars, I think everyone would be better off - cars, bikes and pedestrians.

Bikes are neither pedestrians nor cars. That's like asking "Are people bikes or cars?" Bikes are a completely different form of transportation than walking or a motor vehicle, and therefore need rules that are suited to them. Asking a 60-lb, 2-foot wide, self-propelled vehicle that can stop in 5...

Actually just read the blogTO article and it says it is LED lighting, at least for some of it. Thank god.

I'm a huge fan of lighting our buildings in the city, but if it's true, how disappointing that they're not using LEDs. This will be the standard for anything of this nature within the next 5-10 years, so why they're not doing it now is mind-blowing. So on one hand we're being told to replace...

Yes, you're right rbt. The article that jacek posted was about the public housing going in much closer to Spadina (there's a pretty lively thread about it somewhere on UT). But there is going to be another block of mixed housing (public/private) pretty much directly south of Reve on the other...

While I definitely agree with you about 400 Wellington, it's not like Reve is a distant outpost by comparison. It's literally about a three minute walk down the street. And say you're heading to one of the restaurants on King West (KiWe, Conviction, Lee, Bier Markt, new restaurants at 550...

Maybe if you own rental or investment property, but if it's just for your own home, remember that as long as you are buying property when you are selling property it all really doesn't matter so much. When the value of your home goes down, so does everyone else's, so any money lost is usually...

If I had bought a place in Reve on facing west, I think I would be HOPING that Context builds a with a solid concrete wall along the property line. As long as Reve is set back, there will be light that gets in. I'd rather face out onto a brickwall than 30 nosy neighbours that can watch my every...

And in those years before your view disappears, you get the sound and view of construction :)

Do we really need to be having the same conversation in two threads? A nearly identical one is also happening in the real estate section. In fact this thread was even linked to in that thread!