Please note: There is an update to and correction to this article “Let’s protect a Leaside oasis” about the Crestview Apartments on Leacrest/Mallory at: www.leasidelife.com/revisiting-crestview-apartments Back in May 2016 Allan Redway published an article …more
Contemplating a major home renovation might make you feel like a Leaside raccoon in the headlights: dazed, disoriented and dashing for cover. Most of us have not been schooled on the process; what is needed …more
Garden Court Apartments on Bayview Avenue – Leaside’s Beaux Arts masterpiece (Leaside Life, February 2018) – comprising 10 buildings set around a landscaped courtyard, features a unique laid back Art Moderne elegance. Or at least …more
No, Leaside is not getting backyard chickens, at least not yet! But Leaside is getting the Layers of Leaside Redux – a revival of the Leaside Centennial archival exhibit from 2013 as part of the …more
First, it was the province, with its multiple legislative changes to planning and heritage legislation, and now it is City Planning that seems to be using the theme of this top Oscar-winning movie as the …more
The development application for 1787 Bayview Ave. submitted in October 2022 by Countrywide Homes (a branch of Condor, a Vaughan-based developer), proposes to build over the LRT station, but also incorporates the properties currently occupied …more
Interest in tall development in the Bayview and Eglinton area went sky-high in 2022. New applications came on the heels of the one for 1837-1845 Bayview at Broadway (25 storeys, November 2021). Development applications for …more
Recall that last month’s column began with “By the time you read this piece, Bill 23 – More Homes Built Faster Act – may well have been passed into law.” Regrettably I was not wrong. …more
By the time you read this piece, Bill 23, the More Homes Built Faster Act, may well already have been passed into law – less than a month after being introduced in the Legislature on …more
The demolition in late September of Leaside’s former Canadian Pacific Railway Station has evoked a mixed response. Some were concerned about loss of heritage, but others were skeptical – “the most ugly cladding from the …more
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