Future Toronto 2030 | $50B Transformation 

I just imagining when all these skyscrapers connected to the underground PATH, Toronto will be something else. Every big city has skyscrapers, but a large underground maze city is Toronto's trademark.

There are still dozens of buildings buildings I didn't include because there is over 100!

I am American but I would love to go there

Having being born here in 1968, the Toronto that I grew up in, is now all but completely disappeared, buried behind a massive wall a glass and steel skyscrapers, blocking out the sun, and all of the historical buildings that used to make Toronto what it was. I realize that change is actually a good thing, and honestly I have no real problem with it, it just seems that is changing far too quickly, so fast that our infrastructure can’t possibly hope to keep up. With an estimated 110,000 people moving downtown every year from all over the world, just walking up York Street, as I did a couple of months ago, I looked up and for a moment didn’t even recognize my own city, because the entire south core, which did not exist when I was a kid (it was all railway lands, docks, and factories), it’s brand spanking new, filled with countless new skyscrapers reaching for the sky. I’m actually an architecture geek, and in particular skyscrapers, but I am also a historical geek, and I hate that they are erasing the vast majority of our cities heritage structures all in the name of progress. How can we progress if we erase everything that we used to be? Their solutions? Completely demolish every heritage structure, preserving only the façade, and attaching it to a brand new building so tall you can’t even see the top. It’s like there is some type of invisible race going on between us, Chicago, and New York City, to see who can build the most the fastest. I know Toronto like the back of my hand, I know every single street, every neighborhood, every single building, but I have to admit even I am having a hard time keeping up with this phenomenal rate of growth. Our skyline looks completely different every single year, as more and more skyscrapers are going up and up and up, everywhere you look. If there’s 100 feet of empty space, you can bet they’re going to put a condominium on it, and that’s no exaggeration) If you’ve been here or live here, you’ll know what I’m talking about. Ever since 2005 with the completion of one king west, this construction boom has gone totally unabated, and it’s only picking up momentum, growing so fast they cannot find enough labour and/or materials and equipment. They are actually importing equipment and labour from all over the world, just to keep up with the demand, not even the Covid pandemic slowed it down!, yet our idiot city Council does nothing to improve the critical infrastructure necessary to support a growth rate of that magnitude. I thank God that I live in the heart of downtown, so I can walk everywhere, but if I had to commute? I would leave the city without hesitation. Most of my coworkers spend at least an hour just getting to work, many of them even longer, so they are losing two or three hours a day just commuting, because it cost way too much to live in the city, so they have to move far out into the suburbs, but even the suburbs are becoming so overcrowded, with so many new condos going up everywhere, it’s almost impossible to find affordable housing within 100 km of the city. There is no such thing as affordable housing in Toronto, it does not exist. The last estimate done in 2018 stated that for a single person to afford a 500 square-foot rental apartment, they would have to be making a minimum of $83,000 a year, and that would just barely be enough to survive on. We have since surpassed that number, and it has gone up to approximately $100,000 a year to afford 500 ft.², that’s absolutely insane! The city I grew up in is long gone, replaced by a forest of concrete, glass, and steel. As I said, normally I don’t have a problem with it, but they’re doing it all wrong, instead of growing critical infrastructure first, then building all these huge towers, they are doing the complete opposite, forcing people to wait forever just to get to and from work. Nobody can afford to park downtown every day, and our raids/highways are literally crumbling beneath our feet, and while it’s definitely not the most expensive city in the world, it’s getting there very quickly. My favourite city on earth is Manhattan, but it’s such a well planned city, laid out in a grid system from day one, they knew what they were doing, I wish I could say the same here, but here, they didn’t give a damn, all they cared about was approving as many projects as possible, so they can make as much money as possible, and to hell with the citizens that live here. People are paying almost $5000 a year in property tax for a tiny 500 sq ft condominium, that is absolutely insane. The average price for a new home in the city is over $1 million, and even that doesn’t get you very much. Remember a time when $1 million is a lot of money? Now it’s expected of everybody who wants to live in the city, and if you don’t have it, which most people don’t, people are being forced to move far away, and commute, because all the jobs are downtown. It’s so screwed up! I am incredibly lucky, because I’ve been renting the same 2 bedroom apartment for 20 years now, long before this construction boom started, so I only pay $1300 a month for a two bedroom, 1100 square-foot apartment, that includes electricity and a parking spot. The neighbours that moved in beside us last year, moved into a one bedroom apartment, and have to pay for their own electricity and their own parking space, and the rent is now $2000 a month for a one bedroom. Thank God we are protected by law, so they cannot force us to pay these insane new rates, but they try everything they can to get rid of us, ignoring all service requests, not giving a damn that were infested with cockroaches bedbugs and mice, each time I’ve been the one to deal with it myself, and I successfully got rid of all of them, but they were coming from the apartments around us. That’s a different story altogether, because I’m a clean freak, but back to the issue at hand, it’s no longer my Toronto, it’s Manhattan Junior!!!! According to Emporis, an architectural website, there are over 350 skyscrapers approved and waiting to start construction, there are also another 320 under construction, with a further 530 proposed for construction, and the shortest one is a meagre 28 floors, but the average height is increasing every year, to approximately 800 feet tall, all the way up to over 1200 feet tall, and over 100 stories. For years, Toronto, for whatever reason, never wanted to build higher than 300 m, which puts buildings in the “super tall” category, but now it seems every second project is falling into that category. That is a lot of strain and stress put on a system that is already overwhelmed. Sooner or later, unless they do something drastic to stop it, that strain is going to snap, and the city is going to fall apart. They’re constantly tunneling under the city for new additional plumbing, sewage, electricity, and all other critical infrastructure needs, to try to keep up with the demand of the gigantic monolithic structures, each housing/holding thousands of people. Whoever is responsible for city planning in Toronto should be fired, because they have no idea what they’re doing. The vast majority of condominiums and the people buying them all, are for the most part, Chinese or Asian. Half the time, the buildings go up for sale in China long before they go up for sale here in Toronto, where the building is going to be constructed, I don’t even know where to begin with how wrong that is, so our idiot government put a 25% tax on foreign investors, who are looking for places to hide their money, but these investors are so wealthy, that 25% is pennies for them, and the city knows that, they’re just pandering to an ever increasing,y pissed off group of Canadian citizens with nowhere left to live, so we have tens of thousands of condominium units filled with kids from overseas, again mostly China, taking up all the spaces, that should be for people who are actually born here, again that’s another issue, but it all ties in together. And frankly it just pisses me off that our city Council is such a sellout, appealing to the highest bidder, and not giving a damn about the Canadian citizens that live here and we were born here. Most of them can’t even afford to live here anymore, how would you feel if your home city was completely overrun by foreign investments, and hundreds of thousands of Chinese kids living in places none of us could ever hope to afford? It’s not a question of racism, it’s a question of doing what’s right! I could go on for hours but what’s the point? If you don’t understand what I’m trying to see if I know you never will.

i live like 30 minutes from toronto, ill see in 10 years what has changed

Did you know that Toronto will be as hot as North Florida in the future?

there is also east harbour and 2150 lakeshore

The tall building at young and bloor south west corner has stopped rebar and structural steel is all rusty

A lot of supertall i see

" IMPRESSIVE!..... But why so repetitious? Several of the proposals kept repeating. "

Toronto downtown is a ghostown right now. Many of these proposals will be anulled.

People don’t realize how horrible most of these will look in reality 😭