City councillors have voted to rezone Kingston Road for a seven-storey, 49-unit condo and two town houses just east of Main Street on land including the former Dip ‘n Sip doughnuts property at 663 Kingston Rd. As part of the rezoning, Streetcar Developments gave city planners a study showing another eight properties from Brookside Drive […]
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The constantly changing face of Kingston Road
One of the oldest roads in Toronto is undergoing a veritable deluge of development. Over the next two to three years, seven, possibly nine, condominium buildings will be constructed on Kingston Road from Woodbine to Victoria Park, adding at least 500 new homes to the area. While a spate of new developments on Queen Street […]
Students have say on YMCA
Students in Neil McNeil’s Grade 12 architecture class recently got an inside tip from the people designing a new YMCA on Kingston Road. Think flexible. Across the city in the century-old West End Y is a former bowling alley that turned into a weight room, said Virginia Dimoglou, assistant manager of the Kingston Road Y. […]
Reactions mixed on plans for expanded Kingston Road YMCA
Some want to move in, or move their butts. Others want to be sure that local traffic moves, too. Plans for a new YMCA topped by condos got a mixed reaction on June 17, when more than 100 people packed a meeting inside the low brick building on Kingston Road that the Y first opened […]
