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urbantoronto.ca UrbanToronto's Development Guide: Growth to Watch For 2016 Over the first three months of the year, another edition of UrbanToronto's Growth to Watch For Series has tracked the hundreds of development proposals and construction projects across the city. Moving from neighbourhood to neighbourhood, each entry our 16part series provides a finegrained overview of local development. With the series now complete, we bring together our 2016 editorials in an exhaustively comprehensive survey of Toronto's ongoing and upcoming development. The Toronto skyline viewed from Kensington market, image by Jack Landau Entertainment District Kicking off our series in one of Toronto's fastestgrowing development nodes, 2016 is bringing a huge influx of highrise density to the Entertainment District. A plethora of highrise towers are joining the neighbourhood this year, including Teeple's distinctive 39storey Picasso, the 36storey Tableau, and the 42storey The Bond (seen below).

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UrbanToronto's Development Guide: Growth to Watch For 2016

Over the first three months of the year, another edition of UrbanToronto's Growth to Watch For Series has tracked the hundreds of developmentproposals and construction projects across the city. Moving from neighbourhood to neighbourhood, each entry our 16­part series provides afine­grained overview of local development. With the series now complete, we bring together our 2016 editorials in an exhaustivelycomprehensive survey of Toronto's ongoing and upcoming development. 

The Toronto skyline viewed from Kensington market, image by Jack Landau

Entertainment District 

Kicking off our series in one of Toronto's fastest­growing development nodes, 2016 is bringing a huge influx of high­rise density to theEntertainment District. A plethora of high­rise towers are joining the neighbourhood this year, including Teeple's distinctive 39­storey Picasso, the36­storey Tableau, and the 42­storey The Bond (seen below).

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The Bond rising in the Entertainment District, image by Craig White

Southwest Toronto

Up next, an overview of the development progress between Bathurst and High Park in the King/Queen West, Liberty Village, the ExhibitionGrounds, Ronscevalles Village, and Little Portugal neighbourhoods. Like much of the city, many of these neighbourhoods are undergoing fast­paced densification, with a significant number of Southwest Toronto's projects expected to see construction progress in 2016. 

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Hotel X rising in the exhibition grounds, image by UT Forum contributor drum118

South Etobicoke

Not to be forgotten, South Etobicoke's lakeside skyline is experiencing fast­paced growth in its own right, with a significant number of projects—some of which are among the tallest in all of Toronto—currently underway.

South Etobicoke's Eau du Soleil is one of the tallest projects under construction in the city, image courtesy of Empire

Bloor West

Moving northeast from our Etobicoke lakeshore coverage, the series continues with an overview of development along Toronto's Bloor Westcorridor. Beginning at Highway 427 in central Etobicoke, we continue to travel further east, tracking ongoing construction—and future growth—north and south of Bloor all the way to Bathurst Street, culminating with a look the massive re­development of Honest Ed's.

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Aerial view of Westbank/Allied's highly lauded Honest Ed's redevelopment, image courtesy of Westabank/Allied

Chinatown, U of T, The Annex

In between Bathurst Street and the Bloor­Yorkville area, north of the Entertainment District and as far north as the CP Rail Corridor, you'll findanother bustling area of Toronto comprised of a number of neighbourhoods and massive institutions like the University of Toronto. Amongst therising condominium towers and new university facilities you will also find new buildings specially built to house U of T students, like UniversityPlace, now rising just east of Spadina on College Street.

University Place student residence by Knightstone Capital, image by Jack Landau

St. Clair

Shifting north into midtown Toronto, an overview of development along the St. Clair Avenue corridor is up next. Identified as an avenue in theCity of Toronto's Official Plan, the area is targeted for mid­rise residential and mixed­use development aimed at creating density and urbanstreetscapes, while avoiding the high­rise tower typologies seen elsewhere in the city.

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Code Condos on St. Clair just west of Spadina, image by UT Forum contributor Roundabout

Midtown (Yonge & Eglinton)

The Yonge & Eglinton area is one of Toronto's fastest growing neighbourhoods, with the intersection itself now transforming into one of the City'stallest clusters. Capitalizing on the impending arrival of the Crosstown LRT, developers are honing in on the area with a flurry of newdevelopment that promises to make this area one of the city's most thriving communities.

Looking north from The Madison Condos on Eglinton East, image by Jack Landau

North Yonge and Sheppard East

Cross the 401 on Yonge and go all the way north to Steeles, and then reverse back to Sheppard Avenue and go east all the way to Victoria ParkAvenue, and you'll see building site after building site that is transforming this part of North York. The development here is clustered nearsubway stations and along the bus routes that feed the subway lines.

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Alto is topping off at the Atria site, while Parkside is visible at left, soon to complete. Image by UT Forum contributor kris

Scarborough

Cross the Victoria Park boundary into Scarborough, and you'll find there's a lot more going on here than just a never­ending dispute over how toimprove public transit. This eastern side of Toronto is seeing its fair share of development, with new density focused along major corridors andtransit hubs, while educational institutions UTSC and Centennial College are also continuing to expand and foster further nearby development. 

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Rendering of The Academy Condos, image courtesy of LeMine Investment Group and Devron Developments.

East of the Don

Back on the Toronto side of Victoria Park Avenue, but down near its south end, the residential neighbourhoods east of the Don Riverremained among the last stalwart holdouts to Toronto's development boom, retaining an intimate low­rise character as the surrounding citytransformed. Now, however, a number of adaptive reuse and infill developments are bringing measured new density to the area.Redevelopment projects like the Broadview Hotel (perhaps better known for its former use as Jilly's strip club) now garner significant attention.

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The iconic Broadview Hotel is being redeveloped with 57 new rooms, image by UT Forum member skycandy

East of Downtown

Following the opening of the re­imagined Distillery District in 2003, the eastern stretches of downtown Toronto have seen rapid redevelopment.Warehouses and factories are being transformed into lofts, while new condos towers continue to sprout out of old surface lots and brown fields.This month, the former Pan Am Athletes Village is now being unveiled as the Canary District, a new mixed­use residential neighbourhood whichwe recently toured in advance of the grand opening. Meanwhile, the ongoing transformation of Regent Park is continuing, and was recentlyhailed as a 'model of inclusion' by the New York Times.  

Looking west at the site of The Bartholomew in Regent Park, image by UT Forum contributor alexb

The Church and Jarvis Corridors

With redevelopment on the west side of Downtown having picked up steam earlier, a shortage of redevelop­able space there now means thatlarge­scale projects are now coming en masse to the less dense neighbourhoods along Church and Jarvis. With close proximity to transit, thecharacteristically historic and smaller­scale east side has begun to see an influx of new development, including the much­anticapted St.Lawrence Market North. 

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The proposed St. Lawrence Market North, image courtesy of the City of Toronto

Bloor­Yorkville

Toronto's Yorkville neighbourhood already enjoys a reputation as one of Canada's most exclusive (and high­priced) areas, with newdevelopment making the Mink Mile and its surroundings an even more prominent part of the city. With One Bloor East—Toronto's tallest buildingcurrently under­construction—now rising above the Yonge & Bloor intersection, fast­paced growth is set to continue, particularly with MizrahiDevelopments' supertall The One proposed directly across the street. 

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The One rising above Yonge & Bloor, image by Marcus Mitanis

Downtown North

In this edition, we take a tour of Downtown North, a relatively small, yet rapidly intensifying area of Toronto defined by the University, Bay, andYonge Street corridors between Charles and Gerrard Streets. Neither as jam­packed with tourists and day­trippers as the Downtown FinancialCore to the south, nor as glitzy as Bloor­Yorkville's Mink Mile to the north, Downtown North has long served a mixture of more staid urbanusages. That's quickly changing.

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Wellesley on the Park will rise to 60 storeys, image courtesy of Lanterra

Central Downtown

The heart of Toronto. The Downtown core. Despite the forest of towers already occupying this region, many more are fighting to join the crowdas the rapid evolution of the city continues. Moving north to south through the Downtown Core, we compiled a list of all projects that arecurrently under construction, proposals that are working their way through planning, and rumblings of future growth.

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INDX Condos and the EY Tower are entering the latter stages of construction in the Financial District, image by Craig White

The Central Waterfront

Our final installment of our series takes us along Toronto's central waterfront, an area that has perhaps seen the most drastic change incharacter over the past decade. Once a sprawling post­industrial wasteland, development in the 21st century is reshaping the waterfront into avibrant community, home to thousands of residents, thriving commercial districts, and attractions for tourists and Torontonians alike.With additional large­scale projects—including the exciting Under Gardiner plan (below)—set to come online in the near future, the future ofToronto's waterfront is looking promising.

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Under Gardiner will transform a 1.75 kilometre stretch of empty land into public space, image courtesy of Public Work

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This concludes the 2016 vintage of our Growth to Watch For series. We will return next year with updated overviews of development throughout,as they say, the 6ix. In the meantime, we will continue to track ongoing urban initiatives in our daily news coverage. What do you think ofToronto's development boom as it enters its second decade? Feel free to leave a comment in the space below this page, or join in one of theongoing discussions on our Forum.