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Call to Teams for Design Competition for Ontario Line East Joint Corridor

By:Building .caPosted: Jun 30th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

Metrolinx has launched a design competition to encourage teams to submit innovative urban design and landscape architecture solutions for the Ontario Line infrastructure that will be built around the existing rail corridor extending from Eastern[...]

RioCan REIT sees demand for retail space soar as it reports first quarter profit

By:Building .caPosted: May 11th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

TORONTO – RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust is seeing strong demand for retail space, even as companies work to recover from the effects of COVID-19 and cope with rising inflation. Jonathan Gitlin, the real estate[...]

Vandyk’s transit-oriented community Grand Central Mimico appoints PCL Construction

By:Building .caPosted: Oct 9th, 2021In: ConstructionNews

Rendering: SVN Architects + Planners Vandyk Properties (Vandyk), has announced PCL Construction as the official construction manager of record for the master-planned, community of Grand Central Mimico in Etobicoke. According to Vandyk, Grand Central Mimico marks the first-ever[...]

Toronto’s Alexandra Park Community Revitalization Wins ULI Global Awards for Excellence

By:Building .caPosted: Aug 19th, 2021In: ConstructionNews

Photo: Janet Rosenberg Studio Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC), Tridel and their Toronto community design team have been awarded an international award for development and urban design, the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Global Awards for[...]

SmartCentres REIT Releases Second Quarter Results for 2021

By:Building .caPosted: Aug 13th, 2021In: ConstructionNews

Rendering source: transitcity.com SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust reported its financial and operating results for the quarter ended June 30, 2021. “Our second quarter results reflect the continued strength of our portfolio that experienced collection[...]

Long Awaited Bay Concourse Opens inside Toronto’s Union Station

By:Building .caPosted: Jul 28th, 2021In: ConstructionNews

The new Bay Concourse offers plenty of transit options. (Nitish Bissonauth photo via blog.metrolinx.com) Six years after the City of Toronto closed Union Station’s Bay Concourse for major rehabilitation and construction, the work is now[...]

Collaboration with industry required for local housing crisis, says area developer

By:Building .caPosted: Jul 9th, 2021In: ConstructionNews

An artist rendering a ‘tiny home’. The Employee Village concept proposed creating 23 of these homes that would be approximately 900-square-feet. Contributed photo. COLLINGWOODTODAY.CA A major factor impacting the region’s attainable housing crisis is the lack of[...]

Stantec and PUBLIC WORK selected to lead design services for Waterfront Toronto projects

By:Building .caPosted: May 14th, 2021In: ConstructionNews

Global design firm Stantec and landscape architecture and urban design firm PUBLIC WORK have been selected by Waterfront Toronto to design transformative infrastructure for the city’s waterfront. The design of the Queens Quay East Extension[...]

Ottawa’s decision on controlling the fate of GTA West Highway will come by May 4th

By:Building .caPosted: Mar 4th, 2021In: ConstructionNews

By Isaac Callan, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter THE POINTER For more than a year, the PC government’s plan to build a sprawling GTA West transportation corridor flew under the radar. When Doug Ford and his[...]