It may not be a glorious sight, but the sight shows a bright future: Right now, Toronto has the most construction cranes in North America - which indicates massive development. Toronto has an estimated 97 active construction cranes as of July 2018, according to the recent Rider Levett Bucknall Index (RLB Crane Index). This means the city has more than double the number of cranes of Chicago, four times as many as San Francisco and about five times as many cranes as New York City. In fact,... [read more]

Oxford Properties Group is planning a $3.5 billion (USD $2.7 billion) development in downtown Toronto that would be one of Canada's biggest real estate projects. The property arm of pension fund OMERS aims to build a 4.3 million-square-foot, mixed-use complex on a 4-acre site that's just north of Toronto's Rogers Centre and CN Tower. The development, called Union Park, is the largest ever for Oxford outside of Manhattan's Hudson Yards, the $25-billion project it's... [read more]

TORONTO IS CURRENTLY BEING SWEPT UP BY MEGA DEVELOPMENTS Lauren O'Neil, blogTO Image courtesty of: Wynford Green via Diamond Corp. Nowhere is the rapid pace of Toronto's growth more obvious than in blueprints for future developments.  Within five years, Toronto is expected to see dozens of new master-planned communities built around the city by powerful consortiums of architects, developers and urban planners. The construction of condo buildings is something... [read more]