I moved to Toronto from London UK in 2001 and it's been mesmerizing and exhilarating watching the city get re-imagined/re-built block by block. It will be decades before the dust settles but it's already clear that Toronto will be a vastly different place than it was when I first moved here. Canada has always had lots of very nice cities and towns but never a big world metropolis to call its own. It will now.

Skyscrapers are cute but what's the point of making all this residential space without accounting for amenities like transportation and healthcare with the increasing population, we can't just survive on bubble tea, shawarma and weed dispensaries lol

I lived in Toronto back in the late-80's, and can't believe the incredible transformation that has occurred since then. What was once a sea of derelict rail lands and abandoned warehouses by the lakeshore has become canyons of glass and steel for the Gardener Expressway. Old early-20th century low-rise building along the main streets are now making way for new 21st century skyscrapers. It's still sad to witness the loss of memorable stores and buildings I used to frequent back in the day, but I sure would love to move back to Toronto some day, even if it's just for one more year, and live in one of those new buildings… though my income will have to greatly increase to allow me that pleasure.

You Guys Never Fail To Amaze !!

You have to make minimum 100K a year to live here. It's getting really crowded and competitive already. Toronto is turning into a concrete jungle, and the animals who are good hunters will be last one's standing. People (new comers) need to consider & understand that Toronto isn't the only city in Canada. How about you guys move west? Or try Atlantic Canada?

I am a torontinian. These plans seem to impress, unless you think what exactly we see. And it's just a few new glass and steel boxes going up and up in the sky. But the city can't offer anything compared to: CN Tower, Rogers Center and nothing even close to projects by Zaha Hadid (Heidar Aliev Center and Vilnius Raiway Station), Santiago Calatrava (Oculus in NYC), or Guangzhow Baiyun railway station, Istanbul Airport or even something like the High Line in NYC to mention a few. We can't afford anything significant because all the money went to subsidize Ellington Crosstown LRT which is in construction since 2011 and it's cost is $12.81 Bln, and finally renovated Union station (cost=$824 mln), while invisible revitalization of Nathan Philips sqare took some "humble" $40 mln. Where you think they gonna get those $15 Bln. for the new TTC Subway line? Seriously. WTF? (Where's the funds?). Why Chinese construction companies built faster, cheaper and of incomparable high quality?

I've lived downtown since 1982 and lived on Lakeshore and Bathurst before there were any buildings or condos. The city has really changed! I would love to live closer to Orillia/Cottage country.

I spent a lot of time in Toronto when I was a kid. I remember when the Dominion Bank buildings were the tallest and one had an observation deck. Then the BMO building took over. Still love the city. Visit it once a year. Might but a condo there next year.

I noticed that a common point the most advanced metropolis have is a high-extent diverse population. Toronto belongs to one of them without any doubt!

It's called Commerce court not commons court. It also has nothing to do with the Eaton center shots you showed. The commerce court has its own courtyard that would have made a better shot.

Will the Eglington LRT be completed at this time?

Loved the vídeo. ...well except for "FT" ...I can't get a sense of the hights. Aghh ...I need to review the scales again. But hey, cool vídeo.

Hi, My Name Is Tuan Bach and I am a mega 5X foreman for the entire world so far this is a good beginning and we will continue to forward and progress in the next two years, and years, and decades to come timingly due to timing.

those who choose to live downtown must forget going around with cars or spend most of their days stuck in traffic.

They had such a beautiful city in 1990 with very much space and potential to design it like ours , Chicago , but they're making it like New York , UGLY . They should have demolished much on the waterfront to make parkland , plus made a second expessway. There's too much congestion. Take on a aerial view of Chicago

Yeah, sure... we will belike Detroit by 2030...

Woow look at all the real estate I can't afford.

YSL has been taken over by Concord, its called Concord Sky now, its been under construction for a few months already

Very informative video! But some names you mention have changed, ie… YSL Condo now is called Concord Sky as Concord development bought it from Cresford who went bankrupt during pandemic; Mirvish Gehry is called Forma; The One could potentially be scrapped due to recent lawsuit.. but let’s see what happen to it!

So I see all these new office towers and condos going up but where is all the new subways, highways, and other infrastructure that will support all the new people?

As a Torontonian, I can attest that many of the locations mentioned in the voice overs do not match the stock images. This video isn’t accurate at all.

That wonderful 😊🙂🙂🙂 and amazing 🤩😻

I'm a native Torontonian and have lived on the 30th floor of a downtown building for 30 years. At that time I could see across Humber bay and could see planes landing at the Island Airport. I was on top of the world. After 30 years of non-stop construction, I feel like I'm living in a valley with mountains rising all around me. I'm all for progress but not at the cost of our humanity. I just hope our new mayor can instill some balance in our town now.

CN Tower appears rather anemic within the layouts.

Getting jello legs just watching this, how could you sleep knowing you are that high up..... a wind storm would be a nightmare. "I have 2000s/ft, but I only use the area near this load bearing pillar, no I have not looked out the windows, is it a great view?".

CC3 is the acronym for Commerce Court 3, not Commons Court

We are also developing the water front! 😎😎

Damn if that's what my city Toronto is gonna look like in 2030 it's gonna be beautiful

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Commons Court? LOL.

2030 is the first year that the Eglington Crosstown line will begin serving customers. That's 40 years after it was conceptualized and twenty-five years after construction started on what was supposed to be a five-year project. The Scarborough subway is unfinished, and the Gardiner Expressway is still under construction. The Ontario line is several billion dollars over budget, and they only just finished the first ten percent of the construction. Gridlock is now twenty-four hours a day with traffic taking several hours to advance one kilometre on the 413 highway that was supposed to cut travel time by one minute. Thanks to Hurricane Melissa which was stronger than Hurricane Hazel and lasted for an entire month with over 48" of rain being received during that time. most of the downtown core suffered catastrophic flooding since the green belt had had a sizable portion developed into parking lots and residential condominiums. Leaving all those billions of gallons of water to flow down to the lake instead of being absorbed by the greenbelt. This is another example of ignoring the environment to our detriment. The One condo at Bloor and Yonge has not been finished since it went bankrupt in 2023. Over half of the city's population (About one million people in the GTA) now lives in shelters or on the street permanently and is receiving social assistance.

It's going to be even more unaffordable for the locals than it is now

Great video

I currently live in downtown Toronto, and nobody cares about empty, vapid glitzy towers. If anything the constant construction is just a headache and eyesore.

Best city in Canada hands down, followed by Vancouver and then Montreal.

Hey can you have a video of eglinton construction by 2030

Nice video, but video follow knowledge any country project estd. Love from india.

and you will need a income of 400k per year to survive and IM NOT LYING. Right now you need 310k to buy a house

I wish Toronto would create a huge several miles long beach front, would definitely increase its attractiveness and overall value worldwide imho.

This video is a hot mess. All kinds of names for developments are wrong, and not only are the names wrong, but showing the wrong developments to the names.

Mini City Condos (MCC) Everything in 1 building!

I ❤Toronto

Housing affordability: hold my beer 🍺

Why does the future always has to look more big and more shiny?

Three words eglington cross town. Good luck with all this. Ttc life

Toronto is nothing like when I grew up. I’d never live there again but it’s nice to visit I guess

Can I post this video on my channel?

Victoria ruined by rustbelt snobs in 10 years Could have made an epic time-lapse film of the skyline change literally.

Wow

@2:20 photo of Montreal

Thanks The tallest towers .

Not sure about the 8- million by 2030 but hopefully robots 🤖 can greet us at the hotel

Holy Shit

Canada will finally have its moment to shine. So the US takes a backseat and let its neighbors do the real building..

After watching that video I am so glad I no longer live there. None of these building address greening the exterior of the buildings and all are built with the human ego and greed in mind. These types of buildings de-humanise cities.

this is all great but let's make living in Toronto affordable first

Why you use feet instead of meters?

this is all just rich ppl luxury housing. we also need housing for middle class people and affordable housing so hopefully that's being built too.

What'll people think when the CN Tower is only visible from its base? 😁

Many confuse City population of 2.5 million with the GTA population of 6 million. So; this video's population project is more believable if it said the GTA. Another issue at 2:20. WHY is it Showing an imaging of downtown Montreal?

And one-third of all people living in Toronto will still be living significantly below the poverty line. We will have 50% more homeless on the streets and healthcare will be in crisis because the government will continue with its 1% pay raise by legislation. The education sector will be decimated due to low pay and no investment. Low wage workers will live in homeless shelters. Rents will be $7,0000 a month for a basement bachelor. Half the people in the province will receive some sort of subsidy from either the provincial or federal government.

2:19 Montréal city!!

More ugly glass and steel towers . . . Wonderful. . .

"Cummins Court" should be "Commerce Court."

THE REVOLUTION 😈🤠

Bro really

Back in the mid sixty’s Toronto experienced Rental high rise growth by Developers in the Davisville area and Don Mills for example. I actually lived in one of the first Buildings by Greenwin and Cadillac was the other big developer at the time. Clusters of rental high-rise buildings also appeared in the Steeles and Bathurst area and over at Jane and Finch. IN THE MID TO LATE 90s the Condo’s started to appear and BANG, 30 Years later we have all the monster Buildings being developed and planned. Yes, I understand that it was either spread out or build up. No doubt the subway has a lot to do with it and thank goodness for the Toronto The Toronto Council who pushed for its development or it would be a different story, nor could the City afford it today. I must say that Toronto was a much nicer City to live in back in the 1970s through the 90s. I don’t believe I would like to live in it today, 8 Million by 2030/35 in Toronto is just too much to think about. Enter start planning some very big grave yards the other end of Yonge Street, as they’ll all kick the bucket in due course!

Why were the eaton centre geese shown for commerce court in dying 😂 and then you showed sky tower ( a totally diff development ) for commerce court. Sir do better research yikes

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Neom city vs Toronto in 2030

Toronto......WORLD CLASS all the way.

What in the B1M knockoff shii is this video? 🧐

2030: gta8 vice toronto

Lots of people will move out from Toronto because more and more the Asian market will buy everything here, and everywhere. Lots of buildings will be empty because the price of living here will be so high nobody will have money to live in this city, To pay the rent its already insanely crazy. It's very sad.

more people no place to put them cant wait

The YSL residences is actually known as Concorde sky at this point. You also use the old renderings from years ago when more updated plans have been released. It’s going to be a dislike for me, clearly this video wasn’t well researched

Will it even make it to 2030 with all the crimes

2:26 shouldn't it be Commerce Court, as in the office buildings used by CIBC. And the pictures you used are of the eaton centre, and neither commerce court west or north.

2030!? There’s roads that have been under construction since 2006 😂

In 2030 Toronto will be like New Delhi or Lagos

I got stressed watching this.

2001

what new rail transit system will be built

New Delhi 2.0

Toronto was gentrified and sold out to developers with ridiculous heights of new towers. The Manhattan of Canada

Toronto needs a lot of work! But it definitely has the potential to be world-class!

Why does Toronto think being a megacity is a good idea ?

So our population will more than double and the solution is more overpriced condos that families don’t even want and/or can’t afford??? 8 million people by 2030 which is like New York today, but we have so little highways that are already piled up with traffic with no room for expansion. Closing off lanes on major streets that already have too much traffic with light rail transit, bus lanes and bike lanes. I’m trying to get out of here, not waiting for 2030.

Looks like a “Smart City”

the photo has been beautifullized actually toronto feel like middle west usa rust area

Your forgetting that most of the places they are building are in a dense business core area and are going to be for the rich. All those areas, places will probably go for minimum 3.5 million dollars (condos) Rent alone will probably be estimated 4, 000 month minimum. Rent now downtown is approx. 2,500 + My friend lives at young and finch and paying 2700 for a 1 bedroom, 1 living room, 1 kitchen, small room, 1 bathroom. My other friend lives downtown, paying 2800 for 1 bedroom, 1 living room/kitchen, 1 bedroom. The apartments are mediocre, not luxuries. They are paying mostly for location.

This is funny because Toronto has dozens of high rise apartment buildings that are nearly empty. So in eight years all this will be built😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Why do you cut shots into this video that are not even Toronto? Oh forget it. I'm sure AI created this video.

As the effects of climate change intensify, Canadian cities seem to be poised for huge growth. I wouldn’t be surprised if more of their cities go through similar construction booms

Seriously? Construction is almost at a Stand still! Don't let those cranes fool you. It's extremely difficult for developers to sell enough units to begin construction. I was speaking with someone who was running water supply into our site. He told me back in Dec 2022, they're crew alone had lost 7 future jobs permanently because of towers being completely cancelled! So that one crew alone showed me that 7 future towers full of condo units were cancelled. There is far more of that going on. Liberals have made interest rates so high that people can't buy. Housing should have been sped up a long time ago when they want all these immigrants to come into Canada. Trust me, I work in the industry. it is slow.. if it was going the way it should be.. you'd easily notice the difference! 2030 will never even come close to looking like that at this current speed!

That’s only a few years from now. Ya better get to work

Wow, 80% of the images have NOTHING to do with the projects they are discussing!

Thanks for the rose-colored vision. Here’s the raw reality: Toronto is completely unaffordable for most Canadians. Rents are out of control, home prices are insane and a salary north of $250K is needed to afford the average residence. Solve for this before expanding more post-modernist condos lacking history, character and stature. Other than that, great video? 😎👍🏼

Yeah, this. Idea didn’t age well.

Please use metric units.