Breaking point

Yonge and Eglinton is bursting. If you need help forming a mental picture, think of it like this—enormous robotic creatures ascend screaming from the...;

The blocks that time forgot

It’s a peculiar but prevalent urban phenomenon: Even in areas of high gentrification, there inevitably remains a single block that stubbornly resists...;

Ghost City: Before St. James Town

In April 1971, 68-year-old Francis Berghofer’s century-old house, near the corner of Sherbourne and Earl streets, was dwarfed by the brand-new towers...;

Property Tact: Bowled over

One of the recurring themes in many anti-condo protests is a type of preservationist complaint. Every new highrise replaces something that was there before...;

Sutton Place showdown

For 45 years, the Sutton Place Hotel has hosted movie stars for TIFF and hockey players who would play at the nearby Maple Leaf Gardens, as well as several...;

Snapshot: Ossington gets a little longer

Those spillover crowds you see lining up outside Ossington bars and restaurants every weekend now have a little more room to stretch out. After two years...;

What nightlife tells you about real-estate values in Toronto

I used to use Starbucks as a real-estate divining stick. Once a Starbucks popped up in a slowly gentrifying area, I’d know that the spot was just about...;

The wizard of OZ

You know the old joke: Torontonians would show up for the opening of an envelope. Well, scratch that; we’ve clearly elevated. Last night, pitch-perfect...;

Toronto’s trendy new shopping district…

For as long as there has been a Gardiner Expressway—almost half a century now—people have complained that it’s a municipal dead zone. We’ve often...;

#NewGalleryAlert

The stretch of Dundas just west of Bathurst has been transformed over the last 18 months by an influx of red-hot restaurants and, as of this week, Toronto...;