Sidewalk Labs’ nearly 1,500-page Master Innovation and Development Plan was released in June 2019. The document exhaustively detailed proposals for a smart city on Toronto’s eastern waterfront.Following nearly two years of…

Affordable housing is having a moment. Research conducted by Abacus Data on the eve of the Federal election ranked housing affordability fifth among voter concerns, just short of perennial front-runners, healthcare and taxes. The media is…

Can the Toronto housing affordability crisis get any worse? Yes. Can it get any better? Yes.What a complicated mess.With the election hovering, and politicians promising fixes, most housing experts say measures in the works are…

It is only days before the 2019 Federal Election, and what many in our industry are waiting to see is what, if anything, the winning party will do to address a relatively new-ish top-of-mind- issue to most Canadians: housing affordability…

Public consultation should be considered an integral strategy for your project—and not just an item to check off a list Too many people think of public consultation as a “checklist” item for their development project. You know, something…

On July 1, 2018, most of the revisions of the overhauled Construction Lien Act (which was renamed the Construction Act, or the “New Act”) came into force in Ontario. On October 1st of this year the prompt payment and adjudication provisions…

Politicians from all parties should be asked tough questions about their support of Toronto’s Sidewalk Labs Quayside project while on the campaign trail. This is an artist’s rendering of the project. Sidewalk Toronto With the federal…

In the inaugural episode of his podcast Single Serves, Arnaud Marthouret chats with marketing consultant Dave Sharp, president of Melbourne-based Vanity Projects, about how and why architects are navigating the world of social media.…

Rhys Phillips chats with Scott Addison, president, Brokerage Services at Colliers Internationals, about the wide-ranging effects PropTech is having on real estate development.How would you define “PropTech?”In my role we touch…

Rhys Phillips chats with Matthew Boukall, vice president, Product Management, Data Solutions at Altus Group, about the wide-ranging effects PropTech is having on real estate development.Given its wide reach, what do you believe are…