January 17, 2019

Councillors concerned after data reveals crane count climbing in Toronto

Some Toronto city councillors hope to reduce the number of high-rise buildings being developed in Toronto after new data revealed the city is considered one of North America’s crane capitals.

According to a city economic bulletin published on Jan. 4, there were 191 high-rise and mid-rise buildings under construction in the City of Toronto on Dec. 31, 2018. Two of the buildings under construction are expected to stand at more than 70 stories.

One of those buildings is located at Yonge and Bloor streets. Called “The One,” the 83-floor building is set to be Toronto’s tallest habitable tower. The Sugar Warf Tower D at 100 Queens Quay East will stand at 70 stories and is expected to be completed in 2022.

Around the same time a year earlier, there were 30 fewer buildings being constructed, the bulletin says.

“It’s great that Toronto is a place people want to set up headquarters, people want to build, but we also have to make sure that where there are towers, they go to the right places,” Ward 12 councillor Josh Matlow told CTV News Toronto. “There are areas like Yonge and Eglinton and elsewhere where it is too much, where it has been over intensified.”

Matlow said that he believes developers should be looking at other urban growth centres like Etobicoke and Scarborough.

The economic bulletin pulled data from various sources, including SkyscraperPage, a website that tracks skyscrapers around the world. According to that data, Toronto is in second place after New York City in terms of the number of major buildings under construction. The data also found that 15 more buildings of at least 70 stories have been proposed for construction in the city.

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