Grammy award-winning artist, songwriter and producer Pharrell Williams is collaborating with developers on a new midtown Toronto condominium project. Westdale Properties and Reserve Properties launched the marketing for their two-tower residential development, called untitled., today during a press event in Yonge-Dundas Square. Williams, who introduced the project via video on the screens across the public square, partnered with the developers on the design and creative elements of the... [read more]

NEW 59-STOREY TOWER PROPOSED FOR SCOLLARD ST. IN YORKVILLE A residential tower has been proposed by the Cityzen Development Group for the southwest corner of Yonge and Scollard Streets in Toronto's tony Bloor-Yorkville area. Designed by the highly regarded Bruce Kuwabara of KPMB Architects, the 59-storey structure with a marble and white concrete-clad exoskeleton is meant as an architectual gateway to the Yorkville area from the north. 1 Scollard is proposed as a slender tower of... [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]

Change Remains The Constant in Yorkville.   Impeccably dressed in a crisp black blazer and plaid Moschino pocket square, with a vodka martini in hand, designer William MacDonald surveys the early evening streetscape at Bay & Yorkville. His perch is the plush dbar in the Four Seasons Hotel. It's a scene MacDonald has watched for decades since first venturing into Yorkville from his home in the Beach at an impressionable age of 16. "We'd go to the Ralph Lauren store at... [read more]