TORONTO – Just months after plans were revealed for the city’s Bentway multi-use area (originally entitled “Under Gardiner”), park-loving residents of the city’s core have something new to look forward to: a proposed 21-acre park to be built atop the railway tracks west of Union Station. Currently dubbed “Rail Deck Park,” the new proposal was […]
Neighbourhood Profile: Fort York
TORONTO – Originally plotted in 1793 by famed military leader John Graves Simcoe, the history of Fort York is strongly connected to that of Toronto. It was, after all, the very first settlement to be developed in what now constitutes the city’s downtown core. Back then, two key strategic features attracted Simcoe to the site: […]
Memories Come Alive at Fort York Remembrance Ceremony
TORONTO – Tucked away from the noise and traffic of the Nearby Gardiner Expressway, the ordinarily plaintive Strachan Avenue Military Cemetery comes to life on November 11 of each year, as the host of one of Toronto’s most well-attended Remembrance Day ceremonies. The event’s high turnout, year after year, is no surprise when you consider the […]
Project Spotlight: Forward Condominiums
TORONTO – Earlier this year we featured Opus, one of North York’s most buzzworthy new high-rise communities and an inspired addition to Concord Adex’s portfolio of master-planned condo communities in the GTA. This month, the renowned GTA developer is back at it again with Forward Condominiums, an ambitious high-rise community planned for the historic Fort […]