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)
April 11th, 2022 · Comments Off on DEVELOPINGS: Developments on your doorstep (Spring 2022)
FORUM: Ford is no friend of affordable housing (June 2021)
July 15th, 2021 · Comments Off on FORUM: Ford is no friend of affordable housing (June 2021)
Bill 108 cements opposition to inclusionary zoning
By Jessica Bell
Housing affordability crisis requires action
Housing prices are now so high that the National Bank of Canada calculates that only the top five percent of income earning households can afford to buy an average Canadian home. Housing affordability is one of the defining issues of our era, and it threatens the very soul of Toronto.
NEWS: Affordable housing brought to Bathurst (Feb. 2020)
February 27th, 2020 · Comments Off on NEWS: Affordable housing brought to Bathurst (Feb. 2020)
Feds invest $200 million
By Tanya Ielyseieva
NEWS (DECEMBER 2016): Infill versus open space at 666
December 20th, 2016 · Comments Off on NEWS (DECEMBER 2016): Infill versus open space at 666
Residents decry loss of green space and heritage impacts
PHOTO BY BRIAN BURCHELL/GLEANE NEWS: Uno Prii designed 666 Spadina Ave., which is listed on the city’s inventory of Heritage Properties. The property owner wants to add an 11-storey building and eight stacked townhouses on the site.
By Brian Burchell
Tags: General
EDITORIAL (DECEMBER 2016): Grappling with growth
December 20th, 2016 · Comments Off on EDITORIAL (DECEMBER 2016): Grappling with growth
Toronto is growing. The downtown population residing south of the Canadian Pacific Rail tracks at Dupont south to the lake and from Bathurst in the west to the Don Valley Parkway to the east is presently 250,000 and by 2041 is expected to be 475,000. New condo towers that dominate the skyline south of Queen Street are just the beginning. Like a tsunami, the wave of residential development needed to accommodate this population growth will migrate quickly north to the Annex.
NEWS (OCTOBER 2016): Preventing a wall of towers
October 28th, 2016 · Comments Off on NEWS (OCTOBER 2016): Preventing a wall of towers
Spadina Avenue high-rise not a bar for height
By Annemarie Brissenden
A 25-storey, 334-unit apartment building is providing the model for a new mixed-student residence at the northwest corner of Spadina and Sussex avenues, but not in the way local residents’ associations would like.
CHATTER (SEPTEMBER 2016): Two new rezoning applications submitted to city
September 15th, 2016 · Comments Off on CHATTER (SEPTEMBER 2016): Two new rezoning applications submitted to city
By Annemarie Brissenden
Applications to rezone an area at Spadina and Sussex avenues as well as 666 Spadina Ave. have been received by City Planning and are available online.