Two more affordable apartment buildings in Birch Cliff have been targeted for redevelopment, which means there are now four proposed “demovictions” in the neighbourhood affecting tenants in a total of 155 rental units.
Birch Cliff is buzzing about the Aug. 1 opening of City Cottage Market, a small grocery/convenience store stocking all of the essentials plus an impressive list of locally sourced products from small-batch producers.
Tenants in three low-rise apartment buildings on Glen Everest Road are fighting to save their homes from a developer who plans to tear down their affordable rental buildings and replace them with a new 12-storey condominium.
Opposition is muted to a comparatively modest eight-storey condo building proposed for 1161 Kingston Rd. at Courcelette Road, the current site of Spiros & Sons gas station.
There’s a possibility that a new elementary school will be built in the Quarry as part of the 19-acre subdivision proposed for the vacant land east of Victoria Park Avenue and north of Gerrard Street East.
Today in History: March 29, 1910. A 200-acre brushfire came close to razing Birch Cliff, as reported by the Toronto Evening Telegram 111 years ago today.
The health and safety of children at Birch Cliff Public School will be at risk if the City of Toronto approves a proposed ten-storey condo on Kingston Road between Birchcliff and Lakeside Avenues, according to TDSB school board trustee Parthi Kandavel.
