Construction Sites In your City II

[cranes]

20 University Ave E, Waterloo | 25 fl

@mastermind 07-10-2025

The tower crane is up and foundation rebar has started. It's not very deep, there must not be any underground parking.

Drewlo Downtown Kitchener, 475 King St E, Kitchener

@artyboy123 Jun 19, 2025

Taken June 18th 2025 KW trip

@ZEBuilder Jul 20, 2025

The mechanical penthouse on the second tower is finally being poured. The retail units fronting King St have some activity with permits issued for a nail salon (unit 2) and an Indian grocery store (unit 1). Now that Kitchener has changed their public facing permit system one can't see applications however before the update there was a permit application for a convenience store (this will do extremely well with the high school across the street).

July 19th from Charles St between Borden and Stirling:




45 Courtland Avenue East, Kitchener

@ZEBuilder Jul 20, 2025

This one is now under construction with shoring completed and excavation starting on the site. The GC on this is Jackman Construction. This development has had some changes since it was originally approved since Kitchener has passed the Growing Together zoning. With the new zoning this property is SGA-2 which allows for 8 floors. The building is now 8 floors with 95 units and one floor of underground parking. It is to be constructed using precast from my understanding.

The developer has also bought the property adjacent to this one (63 Courtland) which was the original Schneider's facility before it moved down the street to the property at 321 Courtland which is now being redeveloped by Auburn as The Metz. 63 Courtland is being used as a staging area for this site. There are plans to develop 63 Courtland however those discussions are yet to be public facing but there have been behind the scenes discussions with various city of Kitchener staff members including Heritage staff.

July 19 2025, I will try to get a better picture in the coming weeks:



The Metz, 321-325 Courtland Ave E, Kitchener

@ZEBuilder Jul 20, 2025

Auburn has made getting a picture of this site rather difficult with the hoarding walls they have installed, the vantage point I took the last two from is now blocked off, it's still possible to get a photo but I was being watched so I'll try again another day. Looking through the site access off of Courtland they have what looks like a section or two of raft slab left to pour, columns going in for the first underground level, and then where I was taking photos from they have the second underground level started.

There's now 3 tower cranes up here, it looks extremely out of place depending on what angle you're viewing the site from.

Site from Charles (block away):


Site from Courtland:



Friendship Village, 47-63 Charles St E, Kitchener

@ZEBuilder Jul 20, 2025

The crane is now up with much of the foundation work completed. There is minimal above grade work completed, with what is completed primarily along the shoring wall at the back of the site. As is the case with most KW projects the GC is Melloul Blamey.

July 19th 2025:



RBJ Schlegel Park & Recreation Centre, 1664 Huron Rd, Kitchener

@ZEBuilder Jul 20, 2025

The first phase of the building is now structurally complete, the gym (phase 2) has started construction with footings visible from a few angles.

View of the field house:


View of the swimming pool:


Cladding:

[Maldive]

Ookwemin Minising* | Waterfront Toronto l Park Open

Some gorgeous night shots from @skycandy that celebrate the beautiful new bridges (4 in total).


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Silhouetted swan family.


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Bonus: The Cherry Street North twins over the Keating Channel.


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Still to come: the new Keating Channel pedestrian bridge.


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[cranes]

Kitchener

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/2...reet-kitchener

TEK Tower


The Shanley (melloul | superkul)


Station Park

[Maldive]

Catching up on some odds and ends in T.O.


Regent Park: Daniels on Parliament | 88.25m | 25s | Daniels | Superkül l u/c


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UT lenser skycandy captured a unique moment… Regent Park residents enjoying an outdoor movie ... next to a movie crew shooting on location in the Orthodox church (to the left) lol.


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The amazing transformation of Regent Park continues. Up next, the final phase along Gerrard Street (in the bottom foreground).


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Final phases along Gerrard Street.


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A few weeks ago.


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The Whitfield | 130m | 39s | Menkes | Giannone Petricone l u/c


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400 King West | 164.58m | 49s | Plaza | BDP Quadrangle l u/c

Popping up in the (way too crowded) Entertainment District.


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Podium levels from a few weeks ago.


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The United BLDG | 184.85m | 54s | Davpart | B+H l u/c


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First curtain-wall... tres reflective.


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Queen & Ashbridge | 60.15m | 17s | Context Development | Teeple Architects l nearing completion

Not far from Ashbridges Bay in Toronto's Beach(es) neighbourhood.


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[Dmajackson]

WINDOSR AND YOUNG

A major development is starting construction in North End Halifax. WM Fares is planning for 3x40 floors with ~933 residential units in a mixed-use development. The site is 2.5 acres and is located along a planned BRT route next to CFB Willow Park.




HalifaxDevelopments.ca (Photo by David Jackson)

[someone123]

This one is going to be really visible. It is on a 60 m hill and it should be 120 m tall or so.

The architecture doesn't do it for me but this area was a total wasteland before and this density is enough to make a meaningful change while boosting demand for transit. I do wonder about the BRT concept and the densities they are permitting.

That little 10 storey building doesn't look dense but it is as it's built right up to the edge of the lot. It has a relatively high FAR and by itself probably has the density level of a Japanese city. Then next door are DND lands developed kind of like they are in the countryside.

[someone123]

A view of the North End where those Windsor & Young towers are (there are more photos of the construction site at the source):


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The new buildings will be roughly behind the right cluster of buildings, in front of the ones farther away on the hill. They should look about as tall as the taller radio mast (which is something like 300 m in elevation, but is much farther away).

[Maldive]

Park Road | 97.43m | 28s | Capital Developments | Diamond Schmitt l u/c

Nice gold/bronze cladding appears.


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[Maldive]

8 Elm | 218.2m | 69s | Reserve Properties | Arcadis l u/c

In the centre, with Concord Sky (300.2m and 85s) rising to the left in the foreground. The 2 projects are similar heights at present but Concord Sky will eventually top out more than 80 metres taller.


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QueenChurch | 186.5m | 57s | Tridel | Kirkor l u/c

From late June after excavation and crane assembly.



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Toronto and GTA skyscraper construction update:

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[someone123]

30+ towers built and under construction in Halifax, with Google Earth satellite imagery. Not sure if this is comprehensive.

Dartmouth is really going to look different in a few years. It has 2-3 towers just under the 30 cutoff under construction too.

I count around 50-60 projects under construction in this part of town on the Halifax Developments Blog map. I believe there's no hard cutoff on what's included but generally that would be substantial multi-unit developments, offices, or institutional buildings.

[SpongeG]

there is a lot of construction in the Oakridge Park area, 41st and Cambie in Vancouver.

Some pics from Aug 16

Pics Aug 16

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Oakridge Park
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[cranes]

TEK Tower Kitchener | 45 fl | U/C

@CuilTard 08-09-2025









@CuilTard 08-12-2025

Just noticed those panels are going up at the top, too:

900 King St W Kitchener | 25 fl | U/C

@CuilTard 08-22-2025

Construction elevator and porch gone from the Pine Side:

[someone123]

Excavation began in August on another 2x30 storey tower development in Halifax (now 10x30+ U/C or in the excavation phase). Spring Garden West:


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Not sure what the "future development" to the left is, although there's a lowrise non-heritage brick building with low lot coverage there that's probably a candidate for redevelopment. The one to the right is "The Promenade" which started a while ago but is delayed because they destroyed a heritage house while moving it.

[WhipperSnapper]

Are there really ten plus 30 storey towers under construction or are you counting every tower in multiple phased proposals? Just sayin'; SSP Halifax is quite proactive when it comes to counting developments under construction.

These two look straight out of Waterloo. At least they make all the other mediocre 30 storey tower developments (that I know of) look alot better in all aspects.

[someone123]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Are there really ten plus 30 storey towers under construction or are you counting every tower in multiple phased proposals? Just sayin'; SSP Halifax is quite proactive when it comes to counting developments under construction.

This is meant only to include structures for which there is excavation or construction activity. For example, the Little Brooklyn development in Dartmouth is apparently eventually planned as 4x40 but only one is under construction in this phase so it counts as 1.

It's debatable when to consider something under construction but in practice it's rare (maybe 0 cases in Halifax in the modern era) for a developer to do a bunch of digging and for nothing to ever be built.

There are some more detailed renderings for Spring Garden West but they're a bit limited (I think they were a bit allergic to showing the full height): https://www.mlsarchitects.ca/work/spring-garden-west

I don't have much of an opinion on Waterloo highrises but I think this development is decent and fits in with the area. It is going to have some nice detailing and a masonry podium. Retail spaces all around the base, which this area needs. It's a prominent intersection along a transit corridor, and it's next to what was the city's tallest building back around the 60's (70 m Tupper Building). This area had some other highrise housing going back to the 50's and there is a huge amount of demand for housing here today.

[someone123]

Here is a rendering of the Little Brooklyn project (named after an old ballpark that used to occupy the site) around the bridge area in Dartmouth:


https://www.littlebrooklyndartmouth.ca/

The tower to the far right is under construction. The plain shapes meant to show massing are other developments. I'm curious about the one to the left of Metropolitan Place.

One could find many critiques of this development I'm sure but it's basically replacing a wasteland and it's right by a transit hub.

[TorontoDrew]

One Delisle testing out it's lights.

Source: urbantoronto.ca

One Delisle | 155m | 44s | Slate | Studio Gang

[Metro-One]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

One Delisle testing out it's lights.

Source: urbantoronto.ca

One Delisle | 155m | 44s | Slate | Studio Gang

I love this design!

It looks better than many of the much taller towers going up.

[GeneralLea]

Holy cow - that's crazy how dense Dartmouth is getting. It always came across as a rundown area near Halifax to me, but that's only based on walking through the area a few years ago.