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Toronto Real Estate — Bloor West Village

From New Dream Homes and Condos Magazine

In the 1850s, the area now known as Bloor West Village was the property of Lieutenant Colonel William Smith Durie, the first commanding officer of the Queens Own Rifles. The street that ran through his estate is now known as Durie Street. The present day neighbourhood began to be developed in 1909, when this district became part of the City of Toronto. Soon after amalgamation with Toronto, Bloor West‘s roads were paved and city services were made available.

Bloor West‘s first residents were immigrants of Eastern European background. These are the residents who helped found the Bloor West Village Business Improvement Area, the first of its kind in Canada. This shopping district has helped make Bloor West Village one of Toronto’s most popular neighbourhoods.

This is also a popular neighbourhood for families since it is home to many excellent schools and is within walking distance of High Park—Toronto’s biggest and best-known park. Covering 399-acres, this Toronto landmark contains picnic areas, flower gardens, animal paddocks, a restaurant, an outdoor amphitheatre, sports facilities, a trackless train, an adventure playground, and a large pond.

Other local attractions include the Annette Recreation Centre, which is attached to the Annette Street public school. This centre has an indoor pool, a small gymnasium, and a baseball diamond. A little bit east of the Annette Centre is the Annette Street Public Library, which offers programs for adults, children, and preschoolers.

Bloor West Village is also home to The Humber, a movie theatre that is conveniently located on Bloor Street, just west of Jane Street.

Homes in the area are all fairly similar in size and style—having been built in a relatively short period of time between 1912 and 1923. Most houses feature deep front porches that are well shaded by the majestic oak and maple trees that line the streets of this neighbourhood.

Although known for it’s great selection of stores, the Bloor West Village shopping district is as much about eating as it is about shopping. It’s a virtual smorgasbord of bakeries, delicatessens, specialty food shops, cafes, and restaurants.

Convenience stores, fruit and vegetable markets, dry cleaners, video stores, and other shops catering to everyday household needs, can also be found on Jane and Annette streets.

The Jane and Runnymede subway stations are part of the Bloor-Danforth subway line and are both within walking distance of the homes in Bloor West Village. The Annette Street bus connects passengers to the Dupont subway station on the Yonge-University-Spadina subway line and there are additional bus routes on Jane Street and Runnymede Road.

Commuters are only about ten minutes from the Gardiner Expressway and Lake Shore Boulevard—providing quick access into and out of the city.

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  • Toronto Real Estate — The Historic Neighbourhood of Corktown

    Corktown is an historic neighbourhood located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located just south of Regent Park and north of the Gardiner Expressway, between Berkeley Street to the west and the Don River to the east.

    The southern part of this area borders, but is not part of, the Distillery District and contains many vacated industrial buildings, some in use by production and movie studios. The proposed “West Donlands” urban re-development project, slated to be built over the next few years, will encompass the south-east corner of this area.

    The neighbourhood’s name derives from its 19th century origins as an Irish ethnic enclave, particularly for Irish emigrants from County Cork, though some say the presence of a distilleries, breweries and cork-stopper manufactures in the vicinity may have secured the nickname.

    In the early 1960s, a significant amount of Corktown was demolished to make way for several elevated roadways, including the Richmond Street off-ramp from the Don Valley Parkway and the re-routed Eastern Avenue overpass.

    Currently in the early stages of the same sort of regentrification that revitalized present-day Cabbagetown, examples of late 19th century, intimate, quirky British-style row-housing can still be seen lining Corktown side streets such as Bright Street, Trinity Street, Ashby Place and Gilead Place.

    Little Trinity Church just east of King and Parliament is Toronto’s oldest surviving church building, its cornerstone laid on July 20, 1843. Corktown was also the site of the first Roman Catholic church in Toronto: St. Paul’s was originally built in 1822. The current St. Paul’s (located at Queen St. East and Power Street) dates from 1887.

    Corktown is also home to Inglenook Community Highschool. One of the Toronto District School Board’s alternative schools.

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    The Garment Factory — Authentic Live/Work Lofts

    Atria Devel­op­ments intro­duced Gar­ment Fac­tory Lofts, a new live/work indus­trial con­ver­sion that will revi­tal­ize a for­mer gar­ment fac­tory. Gar­ment Fac­tory Lofts is located in the Queen Street East neigh­bor­hood, one that is under­go­ing an excit­ing resur­gence between Logan Avenue and Leslie Street to form a hip Down­town Toronto East.

    This neigh­bour­hood is fast on its way to becom­ing an urban suc­cess story. Gar­ment Fac­tory Lofts is just down the street from the Dis­tillery Dis­trict, and steps from Leslieville. In the vicin­ity are eater­ies such as Verveine and Gio Rana’s Really, Really Nice Restaurant.

    Pop­u­lar nightspots include Bar­rio, where reg­u­lars sip mar­ti­nis and enjoy tapas-style treats while a DJ spins music on Sat­ur­day night. When the pro­posed changes to the Toronto Film Stu­dio suround­ings become real­ity, that entire area will be home to new retail, res­i­den­tial and live/work hous­ing, adding to the urban tapestry.

    Designed by award-winning Core Archi­tects Inc., the eight-storey Gar­ment Fac­tory Lofts meld the orig­i­nal brick façade of the ware­house with mod­ern steel and glass to cre­ate a strik­ing whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. The build­ing ter­races back begin at the third floor, and are dis­tin­guished by an acid green canopy that will grace the entry on Car­law and extend back into the lobby. Every loft offers a glazed bal­cony or spa­cious ter­race with amaz­ing views.

    The Gar­ment Fac­tory Lofts fea­tures 150 lofts com­prised of stu­dios, one-bedroom, one-bedroom plus den/workspace, two-bedroom, and two-bedroom plus den/workspace, and pent­houses with views of the lake. Priced from just $139,900, these lofts, will range in size from 525 to 1,303 square foot and offer the low­est price per square foot of any authen­tic loft in the city.

    The spec­tac­u­lar model loft by Fleur-de-lis Inte­rior Design Inc. con­tains exam­ples of the building’s inter­est­ing archi­tec­tural details such as the orig­i­nal fluted columns, ceil­ings that soar up to almost 12 feet, and large win­dows. The model kitchen will fea­ture mod­ern Wenge-stained cab­i­netry, a stone back­splash and island with a stone top. This one-bedroom plus den/workspace also show­cases a gas stove, gas BBQ hookup, and an optional gas fireplace.

    Atria Devel­op­ments is known as the cre­ator of i-Zone live/work lofts, located across the street from Gar­ment Fac­tory Lofts. i-Zone was a major cat­a­lyst for change in the sur­round­ing neigh­bour­hood, and is now home to artists, film­mak­ers, pho­tog­ra­phers, and other cre­ative spir­its. The devel­op­ment of the Gar­ment Fac­tory Lofts will bring a fur­ther green­ing to this for­mer indus­trial neigh­bour­hood with the inclu­sion of a par­kette that backs onto Boston Avenue.

    Atria Devel­op­ments is a family-owned and oper­ated com­pany spe­cial­iz­ing in the revi­tal­iza­tion of for­mer indus­trial urban areas by renew­ing exist­ing sites.

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