Canada's 10 Tallest U/C - Page 478

76samian · #**9541** Posted **Apr 8, 2026, 10:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by caltrane74

27 years on this forum, finally the Toronto boom is ending.

Dramatic ending, crashing.

The government will have to finance housing construction or people will be living on the streets

I'm disappointed One Bloor got chopped down. it would have been an incredible tower. However, were also fortunate to have concord and sky tower go up before this crash shut down construction.

gaviscon · #**9542** Posted **Apr 8, 2026, 11:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by caltrane74

27 years on this forum, finally the Toronto boom is ending.

Dramatic ending, crashing.

The government will have to finance housing construction or people will be living on the streets

Hopefully this means more investment in the infrastructure...
The roads, streets, overhead wires, fine dust-filled subway stations.. these are looking like a third world country right now.
None of it meets Toronto's self-proclaimed status of being "world-class". Skyline? Maybe.
These planners should be travelling more often to see how bad Toronto has fallen behind.

Nite · #**9543** Posted **Apr 9, 2026, 8:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by gaviscon

Hopefully this means more investment in the infrastructure...
The roads, streets, overhead wires, fine dust-filled subway stations.. these are looking like a third world country right now.
None of it meets Toronto's self-proclaimed status of being "world-class". Skyline? Maybe.
These planners should be travelling more often to see how bad Toronto has fallen behind.

How does less housing development equal more infrastructure spending??

Since a large part of city revenue come from housing development and property taxes, it should mean less infrastructure spending going forward actually.

WhipperSnapper · #**9544** Posted **Apr 9, 2026, 1:56 PM**

Development fees aren't free money. They subsidize the costs for expanding services for a greater population. Property taxes revenues are determined by the budget. More households doesn't mean more fucking revenue. In simplest terms, each household pays a smaller percentage with more households. However, refugee claimants and temporary residents are a massive drain on city resources and reducing the numbers not to pre or early Trudeau era numbers would free up a ton of municipal monies that Toronto would be forced to reverse the tax increases of the last 10 years.

Unfortunately, I have to add this as I find reason and rationale in less supply in Canada than in the US. I'm not saying shut it all it all down. Just that believing there are only benefits and no costs a delusion. So many services across so many provinces are stretched to their breaking point due to too many people requesting them. Tens of billions in housing isn't going to resolve those. You'll need additional tens of billions to address those That's not a one time purchase either. It will be needed every 10 to 15 years as long as we continue to believe tax payers subsidizing housing at incredibly high construction costs will resolve everything. It's fine if you can afford it. We can't even afford this first investment.

The tax increases of the last ten years should have informed you that development fees and greater number of households isn't profiting the municipality.

WhipperSnapper · #**9545** Posted **Apr 9, 2026, 2:00 PM**

There's 29, 150 metre towers under construction in the SSP database for Ontario of which 25 have an estimated completion date of 2026 and 2027. Keep in mind, it's four to five years from shoring to completion so 4 out of 29 is a massive crater in new tower starts over the last 18 months.

gaviscon · #**9546** Posted **Apr 9, 2026, 4:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by Nite

How does less housing development equal more infrastructure spending??

Since a large part of city revenue come from housing development and property taxes, it should mean less infrastructure spending going forward actually.

Well yes, it speaks to how broken the city is relying on condo developments for architectural and infrastructural innovation.

In cities like Tokyo, Seoul, and many other "world class" cities that were previously considered to be lagging behind Toronto, it's usually small retail and small-to-medium size office towers that lead innovative architectural experiments. Also I don't know how those cities managed to get the money, but they installed subway screen doors at all of their stations back in 2009.
In Toronto, it was only recently we started discussing whether a few stations like Yonge and Bloor need them, and we failed. Do you realize how fine dust-filled these stations are in Toronto?

Those cities regularly repave their roads with the latest asphalts known to last longer, and they have long-term projects led by the city to bury power lines throughout the city.
They don't rely on condos to do that.

It's exactly like you said in Toronto: condos. That's our only hope, apparently.

If you don't see how broken this city is, then you have to travel more.

caltrane74 · #**9547** Posted **Apr 11, 2026, 9:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

There's 29, 150 metre towers under construction in the SSP database for Ontario of which 25 have an estimated completion date of 2026 and 2027. Keep in mind, it's four to five years from shoring to completion so 4 out of 29 is a massive crater in new tower starts over the last 18 months.

Wow. That is an incredible drop off.

That means any cities in Canada that had plans for super tall, well those dreams are over.

Maldive · #**9548** Posted **Apr 11, 2026, 9:51 PM**

Supertall bookends viewed across Humber Bay.

Full Metal Junkie

Nite · #**9549** Posted **Apr 15, 2026, 1:42 AM**

Demolition is progressing for 55 Yonge [232m]
It would be the 8th tallest building under construction if it was under construction now.
Affordable rental and condo.

https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/toronto-55-yonge-232-86m-68s-h-r-reit-partisans.32133/page-14

TorontoDrew · #**9550** Posted **Apr 16, 2026, 11:26 PM**

I am so happy to see this moving ahead. If they can pull this off I hope it inspires other developers to be a bit more creative.

isaidso · #**9551** Posted **Apr 17, 2026, 12:21 AM**

If built as suggested it could contend for my favourite high-rise in the country. I'll have to temper my enthusiasm as 98% of good high rise architecture in this city gets de-value engineered.

TorontoDrew · #**9552** Posted **Apr 17, 2026, 2:21 AM**

Well if Partisans can make it look like their renders maybe they will be able to do the same with a few other of their somewhat stale proposals like 15- 17 Elm.

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