Toronto skyscrapers keep getting taller and more are coming
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More than 100 years ago, a Toronto news writer warned of the danger of too many skyscrapers crowding the city skyline.
That writer couldn t have known just how much Toronto would change. In an article in the Toronto Star Weekly on April 9, 1910, an unnamed journalist wrote a lengthy story outlining the reasons Toronto shouldn t go sky-scraper crazy. Undoubtedly Toronto and the other large cities of Canada will in the near future have many tall buildings. The advantages of these structures are many, as has been pointed out. They represent the modern idea. We must have them, an unnamed journalist wrote in an article titled
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Toronto neighbourhood upset over potential demolition of historic building for condos
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A more than 130-year-old building that has long served as a landmark along a main thoroughfare in Parkdale is, like many historic buildings in downtown Toronto, currently up for redevelopment and locals are, quite understandably, not happy about the prospect of seeing it turned into condos.
The High Victorian Italianate-style stretch between 1354-1360 Queen West was known for housing DIY haven Designer Fabrics for more than six decades, before which it had various uses, including a grocer in the late 1800s and early 1900s, a liquor store, a men s clothing store, a furniture store and a winery.