SOTTO SOTTO HOW A SMALL RESTAURANT BECAME A 'SECOND HOME' FOR A-LISTERS On Christmas night, a still-unexplained fire destroyed the building at 116 Avenue Rd., home to Spuntini restaurant on the top floor an the aptly named Sotto Sotto (Italian for underneath) in the basement.  Many Yorkville residents were tipped off to the three-alarm disaster via the throngs of smoke and screaming sirens. Ninety firefighters worked to put out the blaze, which officials... [read more]

TORONTO CONDO PRICES COULD SKYROCKET 40% Predicts Major Developer A major real estate developer is brushing off fears of a bubble in Toronto's red-hot condo market. "My prediction, and I've been pretty accurate to date, is we are going to have a 30% to 40% increase in values of the condo market in downtown Toronto over the next three to four years," Barry Fenton, CEO of Lanterra Developments, told BNN in an interview on December 3rd. He later clarified he... [read more]

YONGE & BUSY! Big Deals Are On Tap That Will Reshape Canada's Hottest Retail It has been called the busiest intersection in the country. The traffic alone is relentless - in a 24-hour span 401,250 subway riders; 51,392 pedestrians; and 31,600 vehicles pass through where Toronto's Yonge and Bloor streets connect. Now developers have plans to add even more to the mix at the intersection, the cross-section of the city's two subway lines and a growing destination point... [read more]