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Building a corporate headquarters on an old parking lot near once-abandoned rail lands in the core of a major city says a lot about the company's ethos. It says they want to be citizens, by putting dead space to use and giving it back to…
Research predicts a 900 per cent growth in green projects in the next 10 years
Certified green building projects are on the rise and a future where sustainable residential developments are the norm may not be too far away, says ZweigWhite. "If we can ever get this communicated to the building industry, I can't imagine…
CUI seeks new president and CEO
The Canadian Urban Institute (CUI) is currently seeking a new president and CEO to advance the organization's vision and mandate, strengthen CUI as a leader in urban policy development and promotion in Canada and beyond. If…
Toronto and Montreal share top spot as Canada’s most expensive retail strip, according to…
Toronto’s Bloor Street and Montreal’s Ste. Catherine Street are Canada’s most expensive retail corridors where merchants pay an average lease rate of $300 per square foot, according to Colliers International’s…
Toronto launches online Streetscape Manual (June 13, 2010)
The City of Toronto released the Urban Design Streetscape Manual in a new online format. Available at www.toronto.ca/streetscapemanual, the manual focuses on design quality in the public right-of-way, with an emphasis on coherence, beauty,…
Build Toronto lists first property
Build Toronto, the City of Toronto’s newly formed arms-length real estate development corporation, is pleased to announce the listing of its first property – 154 Front Street East. The sale of this site is part of the Build…
What is the future of the edge?
When it comes to city building, nothing stays the same forever. Things change. Except for one thing: growth. Growth drove the traditional city building model and it will drive the future model. As we now know, for the first time in history…
Canadian real estate investors cautiously optimistic about a pending market rebound
TORONTO -- Although Canadian institutional and private real estate investors think the market has yet to reach its lowest point, they are cautiously optimistic that a fast recovery is on the horizon and are honing their expansion…
Exit 438-86: By-Law Reform in Toronto
Even "hardcore" real estate practitioners forget just how recent zoning by-laws are. Juxtaposed against the millennia-old heritage of many tenets of real property law, the introduction of municipal zoning by-laws is a comparatively new…
From Suburb to City: An Opportunity Born of Necessity
An article entitled "transforming suburbia" runs the risk of suggesting a known and relatively constant urban configuration is either in the process of, or more proscriptively should be, changing. In 2006, The Globe and Mail reported that…