BlogTO Does a Before and After - Southcore Financial Centre

BlogTo - Before and After on Southcore

ICE Condos Under Construction in Southcore

Blogto has done a retrospective peice on the massive amount of skyscraper construction in Southcore Financial Centre. Southcore which is seeing the most massive skyscraper developments in the downtown core including ICE Towers, Maple Leaf Square, Infinity Condos, PWC Towers, Telus Tower,  Bremner Tower and Delta Hotel is the area between the railway lands and Union Station to the North, and Bay Street to the East and Spandia to the West. It was also raillands at one point, but has now been transformed into a commercial, residential and entertainment complex. The sights here include, the Air Canada Centre, CN Tower, Skysdome, and the new Ripley's Aquarium (For Sharks!)

The skyscraper construction of the ICE Towers is the most dramatic evidence yet of the change that is occuring in this part of town. It is just the beginning of the mega developments set for the area, with Menkes Harbourplaza set to rise to 66 floors and  62 floors a block south of this development, and Tridel's Ten York Development will go south of it at York and Harbour Rising 65 floors and 225 meters.





Without further ado.. here is the link to the storey from the BlogTO website

I doubt anyone needs reminding of the onslaught of condo development in Toronto, but every once in while the rapid transformation of this city is thrown into relief. Case in point: on a recent stop at the parking garage at Queens Quay and York streets — an old favourite for skyline-hunting photographers — I was almost startled to see how much the area has changed.

Just over two years ago, I wrote a somewhat nostalgic post about the loss of the Royal York's iconic spot on the skyline, then devoured (as it were) by the rise of the Telus and PwC towers. This is something of a follow up, as the condos have now moved in, once again changing the shape of the area. Given that vantage points that allow one to track growth like this are at least somewhat rare, I thought it worth adding the latest iteration to the timeline I started back then.