This City is the Next New York

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The biggest issue in the us and Canada are in my opinion the missing of middle housing, which is restricted by zoning. If the zoning wouldn't be that strict, the market would adjust better to the need and thus more affordable housing.

Good for B1M for digging deep for why Toronto is building massive building in certain spaces and not in the yellow belt. Focusing the video on not just the One.

I’ve been regularly traveling to Toronto since 2007 for work. There is always so much construction going on. The city feels quite a bit different now than it did 15 years ago.

As someone who deals with skyscraper wind every day in Toronto I really appreciate them adding wind considerations for the common people walking around the urban palaces which are probably planned for this building.

I lived in London, ON for 7 years and we got the effects of "Manhattanization of Toronto". Lots of ppl sold and moved to London with their big money. In 2014 the avg home was $240K, now it's over $800K. Wages are stuck in the 1990s level. Locals can't afford homes which is why I left. There was no "getting ahead".

Driving through Toronto on the 401 during rush hour is one of the worst transportation nightmares I have ever experienced. There's sections that are 18(!) lanes wide. Truly a chaotic and bizarre experience

We went during Christmas. My dad, who grew up in the city, now live in America, was shocked to see how much development is happening in the city. Thankfully mass public transit is also being developed as a way to properly commute ppl around the city. Toronto has a lot going for it, and has succeeded in many areas where US cities have failed

I just visited Toronto metro area and totally blown away, I felt it the new skylines more like Dubai than New York. I drove Mississauga - Toronto - scarborough and totally impressed by the ever changing multiples skylines (most of the residential towers) and public transport system (also glad to see that many people walking).

It’s definitely booming at a crazy rate, unfortunately the city is becoming painfully unaffordable and the architecture of all these towers is very bland.

I went to live in Toronto in 1970 and there was one, yes ONE, skyscraper and it was the Toronto Dominion Center which is made up of three buildings but one topping at 54 floors where there is a restaurant. It is now dwarfed by the surrounding buildings. I left Toronto in 1980 and at the time I lived in a prestigious condo by the Granite Club at Yonge and St. Clair. By then several skyscrapers had been built including the CN Tower. However, in 40 years the city has been completely transformed.

I enjoy living in Toronto. Made a nice life here with loads of work, a nice but ancient house and a great neighbourhood filled with a diverse group of mostly friendly, and interesting people Everything I want or need within a 5 min walk, transit options galore and even close to highways. Growing up in Rural Canada I had a hate on for Toronto just like everybody else but after 16 years here, I've really grown fond of the place. Its got plenty of issues but is a pretty fantastic place to live in my experience.

this hit home for me. literally studied this exact building and the housing crisis in my college trade program. went to George Brown in Toronto…

Toronto definitely needs missing middle, mid-rise, and anything else that is relatively dense while not being insanely expensive to build all throughout the city and region. This way policies to control some costs or have affordable subsidized housing or the city/province building social housing themselves can be feasible. Also, many single family homes could even be converted into multifamily units without much change if regulations allowed it. The US and Canada are not going to solve the housing crisis with supertalls but with a loosening of restrictions on what can be built where, while also having intervention by government to control pricing/provide housing for those most in need.

I’m such a fan of the three story condo buildings you see in old parts of New England, they’re so much better for yellow belt development than just a single family house; even just changing 15% from 1 family to 3-4 would be massive and it wouldn’t change the cityscape that much. Toronto has an insanely good rapid bus transit and most of those communities are being better connected to bus routes anyways & GOTransit is making regional rail so much better in the whole Golden Horseshoe

Concord Sky Condo and Pinnacle Sky Tower going up in Toronto will also be hitting that 300m mark. I'm very lucky to have spent some time working at the engineering firm responsible for the structural design of those towers. There are lots of interesting projects underway in the city, not just towers, I'm sure we'd all love to see more videos from The B1M that are focused on Toronto!

This was so cool to see my city featured in a B1M video. I'd never even heard of this project until now. My dad said that from his office window he could always see at least a dozen cranes in the city. I always loved the feeling of driving into the city on the highway, like as you drive in the buildings become taller all of a sudden.

Minor note to add is that The One has applied for a height increase to 338M. There are renderings for this increase and the tower looks much more balanced with the top section full sized.

Another Major factor not mentioned is Toronto’s Greenbelt. It’s one of just a handful of cities in North America with a sprawl limiting greenbelt and it is wildly successful. The suburban cities that surround Toronto have run out of, or nearly run out of space to sprawl out over and this has led to suburbs densifying as well.

I lived in Buffalo, NY for 17 years, and always enjoyed my regular visits to Toronto. But I’ve lived in Phoenix now since 2004, and my last visit to Toronto was in 2006. I am utterly blown away by the massive growth in the downtown core. And I thought the city was in a building boom THEN! Can’t wait to get back there to visit friends again, once I get my passport renewed. But it’ll definitely feel different from my last visit…