What started off as a contentious development resulting from its overbearing design could get approval from Toronto’s Planning Department on January 30th.
Revised from its original design, a joint venture by developers Freed Developments and Minto Group is planned for Front and Bathursts Streets, right beside Tridel’s Rêve. The condominium project will boast a 19-storey building on Bathurst attached to a 15-storey building at Niagara Street. The modern design has a facade broken up by significant cutaways which reveal a second glass skin behind the buidling’s varied precast grid armature.… Read the rest
January 24, 2012 – 9:45 am
By Eddie
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Also posted in New Developments
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Tagged Bathurst, Condo, Condominium, Downtown, Freed Developments, Front, Minto, new development, Niagara, Toronto, Townhome, Townhouse, towns, Wellington, Wellington Place
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Earlier this year I sold a condo in the Maple Leaf Square building on Bremner Blvd. My client purchased a south facing unit on almost the 40th floor. He asked me if I thought something else would be built just south of him. My response was, “I guarantee it!”
Two condo developers, Menkes and Tridel, are planning to build mammoth-sized (according to Toronto standards) towers south of Maple Leaf Square on the other side of the Gardiner Expressway.
Menkes (builders of Lumiere on Bay and the Four Seasons Private Residences)… Read the rest
November 23, 2011 – 12:43 pm
By Eddie
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Also posted in New Developments
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Tagged 70-storey, 75-storey, Condo, Condominium, Harbour Street, Menkes, Menkes Development, new condominium, new development, RBC, RBC Waterpark Place, Rudy Wallman, TEN YORK, Tridel, Wallman Architects, York Centre, York Street
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A few years ago, I left my pie the sky (a 720 sq. ft. condo on the 50th floor in the heart of Toronto) and purchased a house in the east end of the city. I was a little uncertain as to what I could afford and what I really wanted, but I knew I was ready to venture back to a lifestyle minus elevators and a little away from the hustle and bustle of downtown. After seeing a number of homes, I finally stumbled across a house that was… Read the rest
November 14, 2011 – 11:22 am
By Eddie
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Also posted in Architecture and Design, Buyers
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Tagged Buyers, design, designer, exterior design, home, home buying, House, renos, renovations, Toronto
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Last week, a Woodbridge man won $50 million in the Lotto MAX lottery. You would think that this would be enough to purchase a home, but what would you say if I told you his winnings are barely enough to put a 5 per cent deposit on the world’s most expensive home?
Welcome to “The Antilia” building, situated on a 48,780 square foot plot of land, located in South Mumbai. Complete with six floors of parking space (parking for 168 cars and home to the owner’s car collection) a health… Read the rest
