New and continuing developments in the Annex
By MADELINE SMART
with files from HENRY WIERCINSKI, Annex Residents’ Association
Photos by BRIAN BURCHELL, renderings from developers’ and city’s websites
DEVELOPINGS: Developments on your doorstep (Spring 2022)
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NEWS: Affordable housing brought to Bathurst (Feb. 2020)
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Feds invest $200 million
By Tanya Ielyseieva
DEVELOPINGS: Annex area developments loom (Jan. 2020)
January 31st, 2020 · 1 Comment
Emerging from the dust will be much greater density
The Annex is by no means exempt from the building boom that sees the City of Toronto with more cranes in the sky than any other North American municipality.
CHATTER (JUNE 2017): The latest from the OMB
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A mediated settlement has been reached regarding the future of 316 Bloor St. W. Representatives from the City of Toronto, the Annex and Harbord Village residents’ associations, and State Building Group (which owns the building) met for two days to address concerns about the developer’s original proposal to raise a 42-storey building on the site.
NEWS (AUGUST 2016): Tall tower before OMB, as city battles back with block study
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PHOTO BY BRIAN BURCHELL/GLEANER NEWS FILE PHOTO: City of Toronto senior planner Barry Brooks said that one aim of the Bloor Corridor/Annex Block Study is to “protect the significant view of the historical building (above) at 1 Spadina Cres. We are trying not to distract from the spire of that building.”