Feds invest $200 million By Tanya Ielyseieva Last month we included a snapshot of thirteen major developments underway or pending with the Gleaner’s distribution area. In this edition we focus on eleven of those that include a large residential component and ask the question: “Are they affordable?”  Keenly aware of Toronto’s lack of affordable housing, […]

[Read more →]

Tall structures can curb urban sprawl In May 2020, the Annex Gleaner celebrates 25 years of publishing. In celebration, we are republishing highlights of our past; this feature, Fear of High Buildings Groundless by city-building columnist Alfred Holden, is from May 2001. As thirteen developments are going up in the Annex area it appears Holden’s […]

[Read more →]

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. The Gleaner is distributed to homes from College Street in the south, Dupont to the north, Avenue […]

[Read more →]