Infrastructure is the key to Green
By Terri Chu,
I ran into many neighbours at a recent community consultation for the Honest Ed’s redevelopment project. Westbank unveiled its plans, which consist entirely of rental units with a strong emphasis on the key buzzword of the day, “microretail”.
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Photo: Brian Burchell, Gleaner News
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Photo: Brian Burchell. Gleaner News
Owner/Developer: The Wynn Group
Status: Pending, before the OMB
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Owner/Developer: Mix of private owners, University of Toronto
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Owner/Developer: Tribute Communities, Knightstone Capital Management
Status: Underway
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Photo by Brian Burchell, Gleaner News
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Photo by Brian Burchell, Gleaner News
Owner/Developer: 500 Bloor Street Property Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Westbank Corp.
Status: Proposal pending
Board destructive to environment
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The edict from Liz Sandals, the province’s education minister, to the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) that it must, among other things, decide on which underutilized schools should close might just break the institution into shell-shocked pieces.
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By Annemarie Brissenden
Jennifer Hollett received the New Democratic Party nomination for the new riding of University-Rosedale earlier this month at a lively meeting packed with party faithful. Trinity-Spadina councillors and trustee Joe Cressy (Ward 20), Mike Layton (Trinity-Spadina), and Ausma Malik (Ward 10), as well as Peggy Nash (MP, Parkdale-High Park), were among those who showed up to support the broadcaster, academic, and self-described “leading digital expert and visionary,” who was also the digital director of Olivia Chow’s mayoral campaign.
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Police have arrested three suspects in connection with a brutal alleyway assault last summer. Feyzullah Cetin, 19, and an 18-year-old who cannot be named under the Criminal Youth Justice Act have been charged with conspiracy to commit an indictable offence, robbery, attempted murder, assault to cause bodily harm, aggravated assault, and assault with a weapon. A third man, Dominik Rezi, 19, has been charged with conspiracy to commit an indictable offence and robbery, also in connection with the case.
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The former headquarters of the Boy Scouts of Canada and, until recently, the Restaurant Association of Canada, is slated for demolition to make way for a major condo development.
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Architect’s rendering of the proposed 42-storey tower for Bloor and Madison Ave.
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Elected representatives agree on Trinity-Spadina priorities
By Annemarie Brissenden
Trinity-Spadina’s elected representatives are committed to working together to improve transit infrastructure, increase affordable housing, and enhance the liveability of the area. They also share a renewed spirit of optimism after a series of elections last year that have resulted in new faces at all levels of government.