“I didn’t want to own two lawnmowers,” said Dean Martin, a trim, fiftysomething advertising executive, as a siren drifted up and into the eighth-storey windows, which were also providing a lovely cross-breeze.

Toronto is in a rush. Over 2,750,000 people live in a 630 square kilometre area, and many thousands more want to move here every year. With less than 4,400 people per square kilometre we are still spread thinly compared to European standards (London has over three times the population in a similar area), and not all of our new housing stock can or should be built in our central area.

TAS and Fiera Properties’ OMB-approved plan for a condominium development across from Downsview Park in northwestern Toronto could get a bit taller as a result of recent applications to the Committee of Adjustment and for Site Plan Approval, submitted to the City this month.

Toronto builder TAS is filling two community needs with its first foray into the apartment sector at 299 Campbell Ave.

TAS and Fiera Properties’ new condominium development, The Keeley, is set to rise 12 storeys above Toronto’s Downsview Park on Keele Street near Sheppard.

This past weekend, TAS, Bentall Kennedy, and the Toronto Public Library celebrated a ground breaking for their new mixed-use development at 299 Campbell Avenue. The start of construction for the new 14-storey residential rental-library hybrid building was marked with an event attended by Deputy Mayor and Local Councillor Ana Bailão, author/musician Dave Bidini, and residents of the surrounding Junction Triangle neighbourhood.

A few weeks following the launch by TAS and Fiera Properties of their new mid-rise condominium development in Toronto’s Downsview Park area, the continued rollout of marketing material is bringing new details about The Keeley.

Some of Toronto’s most covetable addresses belong to old, industrial-era factories that have been converted into lofts.

Dupont Street in the Junction Triangle is full of history and charm.  Back in the day it’s proximity to the CPR tracks made it an important manufacturing corridor. Today, Dupont Street is slowly transforming.

On Kingston Road, just east of Victoria Park Avenue in Scarborough, construction is in full swing on a new mid-rise condominium development, set to add 145 residential units area.

Last month Curated Properties and Windmill launched a “residential agri-tecture” project on Toronto’s Queen West called The Plant.