Touted as a panacea for Ontario’s ailing economy but condemned by others as the biggest cash grab in the province’s history, the harmonized sales tax will likely have more than a few people scratching their heads when it takes effect next July.
Archive for December, 2009
A towering success
Posted: 30th December 2009 by Laurin Jeffrey in Green & Eco News, Miscellaneous, Toronto Real EstateTags: 25 york street, Building Code, canadian, City of Toronto, cold water, congestion, conservation, construction, construction industry, CREA, development, downtown toronto, efficiency, energy conservation, energy consumption, energy efficiency, energy savings, environment, environmental, environmental design, environmental sustainability, enwave, estate, first, gold, gold certification, green building, green buildings, home, indoor environmental quality, industrial, industrial warehouse, ird, lake ontario, land, landfill, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, lease, leed, LEED buildings, light fixtures, location, ltd, menkes, menkes developments, new, office building, office buildings, peak times, public transit, rainwater, real, real estate, recycle, recycling, reduce, residential properties, retrofit, square feet, square foot, sustainable building, td, tenant, time, toronto, tower, traffic congestion, warehouse, Water efficiency, Waterfront, work space
25 York Street is a 30-storey tower features 780,000 square feet of premium office space next door to Union Station, the transportation hub of the city, where some 60 million commuters walk through its doors each year. That location, Mr. Menkes says, made it ideal to build it to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards.
The top five worst reno mistakes you can make
Posted: 28th December 2009 by Laurin Jeffrey in Toronto Real EstateTags: architecture, bad reno, blueprints, buy, centre of attention, construction, construction season, corner fireplaces, CREA, developers, fireplace, floor plan, floor plans, focal point, foot ceilings, frustration, hard, home, home reno, homeowners, investment, market, odd angles, planning phase, Plumbing, resell, right angles, spiral staircases, square foot, time, ugliness, wind, Wood Floors
People make a lot of mistakes, avoidable mistakes, when they’re building or renovating a home. Those mistakes begin at the planning phase – when the homeowners are developing the layout with a designer or architect.