32 h. ago Toronto ferry terminal now under construction for massive months

As we look ahead to a time when ferry service to the Toronto Islands will be more efficient, reliable and frequent enough to accommodate the immense (and growing) crowds who head across the water during the warm-weather months, ground has finally been broken to prepare the waterfront for our fancy new fleet of watercraft.After months of planning and preliminary work, the City announced this week that construction at the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal has officially begun, with fencing now blocking off some of the areas where crews will install key infrastructure needed to dock and charge the electric vessels heading our way in 2026 and 2027.The boats — though expensive — will be a welcome upgrade, being quieter, more eco-friendly and, of course, more modern, along with having increased passenger capacity than our current ferries (which range in age from just over 60 to a whopping 114 years old).As the shoreside proj...

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36 h. ago Home construction must double over decade to restore 2019 affordability: CMHC

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says up to 4.8 million new homes will need to be built over the next decade to restore affordability levels last seen in 2019 based on projected demand. The national housing agency released its latest supply gaps estimate report on Thursday, which said between 430,000 and 480,000 new housing units […]

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61 h. ago Site of demolished Toronto mall about to be a hive of subway construction

A key transit hub for Toronto's upcoming Ontario Line is about to take shape on the former site of the Riverdale Shopping Centre, marking the next major step in the city's rapidly expanding transit network. Starting as early as July 4, 2025, crews will begin piling for the support of excavation at the Gerrard Portal, located at the northeast corner of Gerrard Street East and Carlaw Avenue. This work is expected to continue for about one year and marks a critical milestone in preparing the site for tunnelling activity. The former Riverdale Shopping Centre, which was once home to a No Frills grocery store, Dollarama, a gas station, and other local businesses, was closed in 2024 to make way for the Ontario Line. Early 2025 views of demolition at the site of the former mall.Metrolinx previously announced last year that demolition would begin at the plaza as early as January 2025 to provide space for the future Gerrard Tunnel Portal. So far, the transit agency has ...

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7 d. ago Enormous cavern below major Toronto intersection is getting even bigger

Construction has reached a fever pitch on the downtown Toronto stretch of the future $27 billion Ontario Line subway.The new transit line will relieve existing subway interchanges with a 15-station, 15.6-kilometre route between Exhibition Place and the shuttered Ontario Science Centre — including a six-kilometre underground section between Exhibition Place in the southwest and the Don River in the east The stations being constructed along this tunnelled section are among the most complex and expensive on the line, involving unique construction methods and intensive subterranean mining, all without disrupting the already-chaotic downtown traffic situation.Metrolinx recently shared a fascinating update on the future King-Bathurst station, where crews have been working to excavate a cavernous void below the stop's namesake intersection since last year.The vast hollowed-out space being mined below King and Bathurst, known as the north site cavern, recently crossed an impo...

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1 week ago Toronto highway construction doubled Gardiner travel times, new study finds

Gardiner Expressway construction has doubled travel times and intensified pressure on businesses and drivers, new analysis shows.

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2 w. ago Construction on Toronto's new artificial island is coming along stunningly

You'd be forgiven as a Torontonian for not having visited the city's Port Lands in recent years (or ever), but the formerly barren industrial area is in the midst of a groundbreaking revitalization, setting it up to become one of our most exciting and walkable precincts.Part lush oasis, part completely new neighbourhood replete with condos and businesses, the future Port Lands community will be unrecognizable — and already is, with all the progress that's been made on the $1 billion initiative since its inception in 2017.The engineering feat known as the Port Lands Flood Protection Project has centred around rerouting the Don River to renaturalize its path (and prevent local flooding, as the name suggests), which has in turn created new wetlands and other habitats, along with an entire human-made landmass.Originally dubbed Villiers Island, the islet was renamed Ookwemin Minisi...

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2 w. ago Toronto's enormous temporary stadium opens this month and here's how it looks

The massive Rogers Stadium under construction at Toronto's YZD (formerly the Downsview Airport Lands) is now just a few weeks away from its first scheduled show on June 29, and the temporary behemoth set to become the city's largest purpose-built music venue is inching closer to the finish line.First announced by Live Nation in September 2024 with an eyebrow-raising plan to open the following June, Rogers Stadium has quickly materialized on the former airfield, and a hurried construction timeline that once seemed improbable is now looking very attainable.New photos of the venue captured over the weekend show the temporary structure is now in place, and blue seating has been added to the vast rows of bleachers.Large staircases linking the stadium's interior with the surrounding lot pierce through the network of scaffolding and supports holding up the seating sections.For anyone holding their breath for exterior cladding to enclose this porous structure, the stadium&#...

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3 w. ago 2025 BILD Awards honour people and companies that shape the GTA 

The building and development industry came together earlier this week to celebrate the 2025 BILD Awards. These annual awards recognize excellence in the design, construction, marketing, and sales of new homes across the Greater Toronto Area. The awards are also a time when our industry celebrates the people and leaders within our industry.   Fifty-one experts […]

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3 w. ago 2025 BILD Awards celebrate home building excellence in the GTA

Toronto, May 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Greater Toronto Area, May 30, 2025 – The Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD) recognized excellence in the design, construction, marketing and sales of new homes in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) at its 2025 BILD Awards Gala, held on May 29. BILD presented 50 awards in […]

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3 w. ago Huge Toronto tower made of wood technically started construction over a decade ago

An impressive tower built largely out of wood is rising in Toronto, but this project technically started construction years earlier, before a tower was even proposed for this site near St. George subway station.The University of Toronto's new Academic Wood Tower is rising at an impressive pace, though it had a bit of a head start. Growing from atop the north end of the Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport at 110 Devonshire Place, this structure used the base of the 2014-completed sports complex as a springboard for its ascent towards an eventual 14-storey height.First revealed in 2018, the tower's design by Patkau Architects and MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects (MJMA) plays off the geometry of the existing Goldring Centre — which featured the same design team.Patkau/MJMAWhen construction began in 2023, the tower was able to spring up from above the pre-existing foundations, basement, lower floors, and elevator core up to the fourth floor, which were alr...

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3 w. ago Toronto park will remain a mess of construction for more than a year

Construction is set to impact a small Liberty Village park for the next year and a half, as part of Metrolinx's ongoing work on the forthcoming Ontario Line.At the east end of Ordnance Triangle Park, crews are actively excavating at the future site of an emergency exit building (EEB), which will eventually provide a safety link between the Ontario Line tunnels and the surface.The current phase of work includes the excavation of soil and bedrock to reach the depths of the future Ontario Line tunnels. Once completed, a shaft will house an emergency exit stairwell from the transit line's tracks to the surface.Excavation work officially kicked off in 2024, and this phase is expected to continue through 2025, with the removal of bedrock from the excavated shaft and the creation of a small cavern at the bottom of the shaft.Once this phase of work wraps up, the next task will involve building the permanent concrete foundation, shaping the structure, constructing emergency stairwell...

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4 w. ago Toronto's most cursed intersection about to be a total mess yet again

A Toronto intersection that has been the centre of a massive condo boom, years-long construction on the city's most problematic transit line, and other roadwork that has made it a hellish place for both drivers and pedestrians is set to be hindered once again by, you guessed it, further "improvements."While crews are still wrapping up work on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT — which is now expected to open in September after countless delays — Metrolinx is shutting down parts of the crowded corner of Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue for approximately three full days starting this weekend, which may extend longer, depending on how things go.The closure is, according to a construction notice, for utility works related to the LRT line, and will necessitate intermittent lane closures both ways on Yonge Street north of Eglinton.One lane of traffic will remain open at all times, but those in the area can expec...

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