Posts Tagged ‘fort york’
[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: #650Parliament, Leslieville, Bathurst, Sheppard, Scarborough
- That the owners of 650 Parliament Street are charging displaced tenants rent, while they are away from their homes, is unconscionable. The Toronto Star reports.
- This CBC Toronto story about light pollution leaking over from a commercial building in Leslieville to nearby condos highlights a new problem for mixed-use districts.
- Urban Toronto takes a look at the latest version of a proposal for a mixed-used property at Lake Shore and Bathurst.
- blogTO notes that at least some politicians want to extend the underused Sheppard line of the TTC east to Kennedy station.
- Aparita Bhandavi at The Discourse notes how the recent elections confirmed the underrepresentation of non-white males in politics in Scarborough.
[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Stackd, Parkdale, paradise Theatre, Bloor/Symington, Hadrian
- Urban Toronto notes that Stackd, a container-based community market, is taking form near Fort York.
- A Parkdale community group is seeking assurances of affordable housing from local developers. The Toronto Star reports.</li
- The restoration of the Paradise Theatre on Bloor, in Bloorcourt, is proceeding apace. blogTO reports.
- The intersection of Bloor and Symington is getting better. (I imagine that the growth of Sterling Road is one trigger.) blogTO reports.
- This NOW Toronto review of the Rufus Wainwright opera Hadrian suggests promise. Perhaps a remount?
[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links: Metrolinx, Yonge and Bloor, transitions, Fort York, U of T, churches
- Steve Munro finds much wrong with the idea of transit fare integration across the GTA through Metrolinx, over at his blog.
- blogTO notes the possibility of a new Apple store, this one at Yonge and Bloor.
- Christopher Hume notes that 2018 is going to be a year of many transitions for Toronto, over at the Toronto Star.
- An ancient First Nations arrowhead found at Fort York eighty years ago has been turned over to the city by the woman who found it. The Toronto Star reports.
- Alex Bozikovic quite likes the architecture of the University of Toronto’s downtown campus, over at The Globe and Mail.
- I have been talking about the trend of converting old church buildings in downtown Toronto into condominiums for years, even sharing photos of conversions. Why not do this? The Globe and Mail describes this trend.
[PHOTO] Twelve photos of Fort York underneath the city (@fortyork, #fortyork)
On my Sunday visit to Fort York, I was struck by how this fort is now a green space engulfed in city, towers nearby in South Core to the east and further away in Liberty Village to the west, girdled by the Gardiner Expressway to the south and by the rail tracks to the north. It’s an anachronistic island, of sorts.