NBGtect - the land acquisition, approvals & land development process for low-rise project is typically about a decade - whereas the actual "construction" time period to build a single family home is a bit less than a year. High-rise contrasts in that the land acquisition & approvals process is...

I'm sorry for taking this off-topic but this statement is completely untrue - the subdivision land acquisition and approvals/development process takes far longer than the high-rise process - about a decade in fact. Let me very briefly walk you through... Preliminary Planning Review Phase I...

Minor update: The initial proposal was for a 68-storey, mixed-use residential building with at-grade retail and 10,947 square metres of office space. This was to replace the existing 8-storey office building with 10,689.6 square metres of office. However, the proposed office space included...

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A transit oriented project proposed along Hurontario LRT in Mississauga. Edenshaw Homes is proposing to build two condo towers of 32 and 25 storeys with 545 units, at-grade retail commercial and 49 back-to-back townhouses. Edenshaw is seeking an official plan amendment to designate the site at...

In a September 4 decision, OMB Vice-cChair Jan de Pencier Seaborn approved a settlement between KS 700 Bay Street and the City of Toronto regarding two site-specific zoning by-law amendments for the property at 700 Bay Street and 77 Gerrard Street West. KS 700 Bay originally proposed a 45-storey...

On a completely different note - Foster admirers may be interested in a previously unpublicized Foster design for 217 West 57th street (that was not actually selected as the final design - Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill were ultimate selected to design what will be the tallest residential tower in...

That is pretty well impossible... when the previous proposal on the 1BE site went side-ways one of the part landowners was the Lehman Brothers who went bankrupt during the global financial crisis in 2008. How would one force a bankrupt company... let alone any company that does not have project...

^ an established Toronto developer that is familiar with the local dynamics/politics. Edit: That was a reply to i42, not ksun

Night Shots from last week:

Sorry if this has been posted before - but an interesting article from Architect Magazine: http://www.architectmagazine.com/awards/r-d-awards/citation-queen-richmond-centre-west_o The Journal of the American Institute of Architects also recognized QRC West, with an R+D Award for its...

^ focus was on Wellesley and now Tea House... why would Lanterra open another project just blocks away targeting similar investor clients? There is a reason for why most things happen in the development process.

Diamondcorp specializes on the planning side and Kilmer specializes in brownfield remediation (site was a gas station) and would have had expensive issues to resolve through Ministry of Environment & Climate Change process.

The architecture is certainly fair game, but the notion that some people are espousing that this project is somehow beneath American standards is ridiculous. Urban Toronto is primarily a forum to discuss urban design and architecture, but there are many many more components that make up the full...

Community Consultation: 1 Bloor St. West - Wed. March 11 7PM - Park Hyatt #4 Avenue Rd Mizrahi Developments is proposing the construction of an 80-storey mixed-use building inclusive of an 8-storey podium containing retail and commercial uses with residential condominium units in the tower above.

I'll chime in here and add to that... while some people here on UT seem to think shadowing and parks is a uniquely Toronto issue - there has been a lot of very negative press in NYC about shadowing and Central Park - I would suggest that this issue is actually much more controversial in NYC than...

Agreed. This could have been handled better and the proponent still has to work with the councilor through the approvals process. This may not have been the best PR move to start such a relationship.

While I don't like to see a building go in this fashion.... the city had 112 years to designate the structure. While I'm concerned by the speed the proponent is taking the building down and the method in which it is coming down, I think any anger should be directed to the city... there seems to...

This whole idea that the "shape" of a tower has anything to do with it being "cheap" is simplistic & ridiculous. Look at the $psf and that will tell you what kind of market they are going after. Here is a box... with that $95 million dollar penthouse is it obviously "cheap".

I appreciate that this is a forum and most comments are rather superficial in nature (I.e. "Collingwood" example) and that people naturally gravitate to the headline height number rather than digging into the nuts and bolts of the actual planning challenges that the site presents. I certainly...