You wouldn’t want to fall down this Well. There’s a wide and enormously deep, abyss-like hole — 20 metres down — at the corner of Spadina Ave. and Front St. where a massive construction project is going on. A look at The Well, currently a construction site at the corner Spadina Ave. and Front St. W. that’s…
Work at Toronto’s largest construction site ever is getting more and more complex by the day. Excavation continues as the end-of-November target to wrap it up approaches after 14 months of work. Six underground levels deep across most of the site, forming, which is most advanced on the office tower at the east end of the site, has begun now on…
Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust and RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust’s new office development in the heart of Toronto’s technology district has a core tenant: Index Exchange Inc., the closely held global advertising marketplace. The Toronto-based firm will lease as much as 200,000 square feet (18,600 square…
The ramp leads you up from the street into a long, narrow passageway, lined by brick columns. This passageway towers a level below you and a level above, lined by shops; it’s crossed by wooden bridges and capped by a sinuous glass roof above. A breeze washes past as you consider an espresso or a pair of earrings. What is this…
The corner of Front Street West and Spadina used to feel like the Western outback, alone and removed, even if only a few blocks from Toronto’s downtown core, facing noisy commuter rail lines. Wellington, one street north, was a quieter, leafier anomaly with its historic buildings, yet broken by a big gravel parking lot, and King had…
Ed Sonshine, chief executive officer at RioCan REIT, discusses a joint development with Allied Properties to build a new mixed-use urban real estate project that blurs the lines between working and living, and why it will be an oasis in an urban jungle. Source:…
An ambitious development plans to create a sky-high residential and business community at Front & Spadina. Source:…
New thermal energy storage tanks at ‘The Well’ development will provide year-round, low-carbon cooling and heating services to Toronto’s downtown west. Allied Properties REIT (“Allied”) (TSX: AP.UN), Enwave Energy Corporation (“Enwave”) and RioCan REIT (“RioCan”) (TSX: REI.UN) are joining forces to extend Enwave’s…
Welcome to The Well, Toronto’s first real mixed-use community in the heart of the city’s west end, where you can live, work and shop with creativity and purpose. Stretching for 7.8 acres down the western side of Spadina Avenue from Wellington to Front, this urban hub combines sustainability-focused office space, an expansive retail environment…
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