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The biggest issue in the us and Canada are in my opinion the missing of middle housing, which is restricted by zoning. If the zoning wouldn't be that strict, the market would adjust better to the need and thus more affordable housing.

Good for B1M for digging deep for why Toronto is building massive building in certain spaces and not in the yellow belt. Focusing the video on not just the One.

I’ve been regularly traveling to Toronto since 2007 for work. There is always so much construction going on. The city feels quite a bit different now than it did 15 years ago.

As someone who deals with skyscraper wind every day in Toronto I really appreciate them adding wind considerations for the common people walking around the urban palaces which are probably planned for this building.

I lived in London, ON for 7 years and we got the effects of "Manhattanization of Toronto". Lots of ppl sold and moved to London with their big money. In 2014 the avg home was $240K, now it's over $800K. Wages are stuck in the 1990s level. Locals can't afford homes which is why I left. There was no "getting ahead".

Driving through Toronto on the 401 during rush hour is one of the worst transportation nightmares I have ever experienced. There's sections that are 18(!) lanes wide. Truly a chaotic and bizarre experience

I enjoy living in Toronto. Made a nice life here with loads of work, a nice but ancient house and a great neighbourhood filled with a diverse group of mostly friendly, and interesting people Everything I want or need within a 5 min walk, transit options galore and even close to highways. Growing up in Rural Canada I had a hate on for Toronto just like everybody else but after 16 years here, I've really grown fond of the place. Its got plenty of issues but is a pretty fantastic place to live in my experience.

We went during Christmas. My dad, who grew up in the city, now live in America, was shocked to see how much development is happening in the city. Thankfully mass public transit is also being developed as a way to properly commute ppl around the city. Toronto has a lot going for it, and has succeeded in many areas where US cities have failed

It’s definitely booming at a crazy rate, unfortunately the city is becoming painfully unaffordable and the architecture of all these towers is very bland.

Toronto definitely needs missing middle, mid-rise, and anything else that is relatively dense while not being insanely expensive to build all throughout the city and region. This way policies to control some costs or have affordable subsidized housing or the city/province building social housing themselves can be feasible. Also, many single family homes could even be converted into multifamily units without much change if regulations allowed it. The US and Canada are not going to solve the housing crisis with supertalls but with a loosening of restrictions on what can be built where, while also having intervention by government to control pricing/provide housing for those most in need.

I just visited Toronto metro area and totally blown away, I felt it the new skylines more like Dubai than New York. I drove Mississauga - Toronto - scarborough and totally impressed by the ever changing multiples skylines (most of the residential towers) and public transport system (also glad to see that many people walking).

I’m such a fan of the three story condo buildings you see in old parts of New England, they’re so much better for yellow belt development than just a single family house; even just changing 15% from 1 family to 3-4 would be massive and it wouldn’t change the cityscape that much. Toronto has an insanely good rapid bus transit and most of those communities are being better connected to bus routes anyways & GOTransit is making regional rail so much better in the whole Golden Horseshoe

Just like Manhattan, it will become impossible for anyone to live in with rents totaling several thousand a month while simultaneously having a massive homelessness problem.... Oh wait, that's how it is already! They really are ahead of the game!

I went to live in Toronto in 1970 and there was one, yes ONE, skyscraper and it was the Toronto Dominion Center which is made up of three buildings but one topping at 54 floors where there is a restaurant. It is now dwarfed by the surrounding buildings. I left Toronto in 1980 and at the time I lived in a prestigious condo by the Granite Club at Yonge and St. Clair. By then several skyscrapers had been built including the CN Tower. However, in 40 years the city has been completely transformed.

this hit home for me. literally studied this exact building and the housing crisis in my college trade program. went to George Brown in Toronto…

Concord Sky Condo and Pinnacle Sky Tower going up in Toronto will also be hitting that 300m mark. I'm very lucky to have spent some time working at the engineering firm responsible for the structural design of those towers. There are lots of interesting projects underway in the city, not just towers, I'm sure we'd all love to see more videos from The B1M that are focused on Toronto!

Minor note to add is that The One has applied for a height increase to 338M. There are renderings for this increase and the tower looks much more balanced with the top section full sized.

+1 for mentioning zoning. If all the single-family housing zoning were switched to medium-density/medium-rise housing we could more sustainably solve this issue.

I lived in Buffalo, NY for 17 years, and always enjoyed my regular visits to Toronto. But I’ve lived in Phoenix now since 2004, and my last visit to Toronto was in 2006. I am utterly blown away by the massive growth in the downtown core. And I thought the city was in a building boom THEN! Can’t wait to get back there to visit friends again, once I get my passport renewed. But it’ll definitely feel different from my last visit…

Another Major factor not mentioned is Toronto’s Greenbelt. It’s one of just a handful of cities in North America with a sprawl limiting greenbelt and it is wildly successful. The suburban cities that surround Toronto have run out of, or nearly run out of space to sprawl out over and this has led to suburbs densifying as well.

There are a number of transit expansion projects currently underway in the city of Toronto. Rapid transit network improvement is one of the reasons why the city is growing.

This was so cool to see my city featured in a B1M video. I'd never even heard of this project until now. My dad said that from his office window he could always see at least a dozen cranes in the city. I always loved the feeling of driving into the city on the highway, like as you drive in the buildings become taller all of a sudden.

The funny thing is, the best part of Toronto is the areas around the downtown core. If you are visiting the city I highly encourage you to leave the city center and experience the many neighborhoods that are great. Danforth, beaches, the annex, high park, distillery, Kensington market, Leslieville. The city has so much more to offer when you get outside of the high density areas. There are a lot of great live music venues and good entertainment such as second city.

Incredibly glad you addressed the Yellow belt, it is seldom talked about when it comes to the lack of affordable housing in the GTA.

Toronto is a happy place for me. It feels like a bigger version of Boston but with the Manhattenization.. and yet the city lacks the shoulder rubbing bustle of NYC. I typically stay in a high-rise hotel and, before hitting the sack, love gazing out at the skyscrapers for a few minutes wondering about the lives and aspirations of people behind those soft, lighted windows. Hey, its my thing to do when in town!

Love you guys! The B1M is THE youtube channel for megaprojects, greetings from the UK

This is awesome, Toronto is an interesting place. Was born there but live across the lake now. Love visiting it everytime

Fantastic! Every aspect of this story is almost spine-tingling, and I'm 78. May 20, 2022. St. Joseph, MO, USA

Moved to Toronto 22 years ago. The changes have been insane and it is just starting. More in the pipeline for approval than even being built. Not to mention 3 new subway lines.

One of my favorite channels. Thank you.

Of note, most people going to downtown actually commute by transit, especially pre pandemic. What needs to be changed is increasing suburb-suburb transit use, which is why projects like the Eglinton Crosstown and Scarborough Subway extension are being built. In addition, transit capacity in Downtown is oversaturated (pre pandemic), so a new downtown subway is being constructed. Ultimately it's not enough for the amount of residents planned on being added to the city, and the city needs to get serious about an additional downtown subway, and trunk from a new suburb.

1) The most important thing they can do to solve the housing shortage is to change the zoning laws to allow more housing density. 5:37 shows the scale of these zones 2) Hope they won't build super high rises near CN tower, because currently buildings close to CN tower are shorter, creating that unique Toronto skyline 3) Excellent video!!

Translation from Foster & Partners into English: "Maximized in terms of its size and volume" = We're going to use all the space "To create a major urban room" = A space for shops "Distinct horizontal bands" = Concrete-covered columns

Great coverage of Toronto by B1M! We're proud to have our HQ here and definitely looking forward to the rapid changes over the next few years.

Love this video profile more of Toronto, would love to see more Canadian videos showcasing Canadian construction and architecture!

Your videos are always the best💯 I do receive a notification each time you post a new video.. We'll have regrets for things we did not participate in...Investment should always be on any creative man's heart for success in life.

I am proud the say I am part of The One and other skyscrapers projects in Toronto and the GTA. Fabricating and welding the structural steel has been an amazing challenge. Having my fingerprint on this historical project is very surreal.

I was amazed going to Toronto 10 years ago and seeing the crazy amount of growth

my whole life i have been an atlas man, and one tends to overlook many places and what amazing things they bring, so i thank you for this channel and the way you change one's view of each place you video...........now the atlas becomes more exciting, with Fred Mills and B1M channel...

Toronto has a huge amount of potential! We definitely need more affordable housing though!

To anyone having been to both cities, NYC is in a whole other universe compared to Toronto in every possible way.

I have family that lives in Toronto; hopefully this summer I’ll get to see what downtown looks like!

Hi from Melbourne Australia. We have similar urban dynamics here, although I would say there has been more allowance for more medium density and in-fill in the inner city suburbs.

Been waiting for more Toronto based content for years; with the massive number of skyscrapers being approved & built to the various transit lines being worked on there aren't many North American or Global cities that are as interesting (construction & infrastructure wise) than Toronto.

Thank you for mentioning the ridiculous amount of land zoned for exclusively single family homes in Toronto. As cool as skyscrapers are, they really shouldn't be necessary in a city with sane zoning.

Wow I had no idea that Toronto is growing so much!

One thing I like about NYC and Chicago is their historic skyscrapers from the 1920's and 30s. Toronto has a few historic tall buildings but is mostly glass and steel boxes with no real notable landmarks apart from the CN Tower. Still, it's my birth city and I do like Toronto for all of its green space, and cleanliness. Plus it's a relatively safe city compared with many big American counterparts.

Great video! would love to see more on Toronto.

Insert the 30 Rock joke: "Toronto is like New York, without all the stuff"

Very interesting, will be watching to see the progression over the next decade.

Thank you for the video!

As always great video!!

Another fantastic video!

man, this is a hard video to watch amidst the serious housing crisis happening in southwestern Ontario. How many of these new developments are rentals? If they aren't, how can an average Torontonian begin to afford $600k+ for a one bedroom condo? It is known that many neighbouring cities of Toronto have grown in response to people driving in for work, since the city itself is unaffordable, contributing to the congestion issue.

great contents and wonderful videos. thanks for sharing .....!

Toronto's skyline is fantastic, it looks incredible from all angles.

I knew it! Toronto is in need of Architecture glad they’re DOING IT BIG

It would be interesting to see a video on Toronto's planned Ontario subway line. It's recently had developments and would make for a great video

Looking across lake Ontario from the escarpment in Stoney Creek, on a beautiful day, the Toronto skyline looks so cool!!! One of many reasons why ppl flock to the city!

Amazing job. Well done. Maybe for the next topic you can compare Sydney and Toronto with somewhere that were successful to control the housing price.

Been waiting to hear Fred talk about The One for years now. Surprised he didn’t bring up Pinnacle or Forma for their 300M+ status

We have winters here so those small units are pretty terrible for anyone with kids and beyond. The Yellow Belt needs to be opened up to 4plex's that can be purchased.... If Toronto doesn't change 2 entire generations and future generations will not have the chance to purchase anything.... So they'll leave.

As a Brit, who’s been there quite a few times, I’m a big fan of ‘Toranno’. 😊

Wowwwwwwwwwwwwww 😍 another iconic video thankq B1M! You're always the best

Practically obsessed with this channel, scrolling all the day to see if something new is uploaded. great work B1M

my parents bought our house here in toronto in the late 90s for less than a fifth of its current value… meanwhile, the outrageous rent in the new condos being built downtown is forcing many people to spend the majority of their income on housing in a way that limits their contribution to the broader economy. unless we reform our zoning laws to make more room for mixed use housing and stop building luxury condos that even the middle class can’t afford, the housing crisis will only worsen. that’s what the frenetic development of the toronto skyline actually symbolizes

As we quickly discovered in all of our east coast cities in Oz, more skyscrapers doesn't equal a 'better' city for anyone other than developers and their politician allies. No question that the skyline is often a spectacle (particularly at night), but the model of living in the burbs and battling your way into the city 5 days a week is severely dated. The pandemic really shook the foundations of small businesses that rely on those teeming masses 5-6 days a week and it was sad to see eateries that had been in business for decades close their doors.

Thank you for sharing.

Half of those articles you highlighted about real estate are that there is no affordable houses due to investors purchasing up a lot of the condo markets. Many of those condos are over 50% empty but due to the way the industry keeps track, they are registered as occupied. The massive boom is because of the current provincial government’s drive to push big businesses. The larger projects have been removing parks and public spaces. Converting these “yellow belt” zones to condos and commercial have been only pushing the general work force to leave the city to find affordable housing. If you want a great example of this, take a look at the “Aura” condo that went up just south of “the One”. A building intended to be connected to the transit, have modern facilities, and is connected to the underground path. Almost all the commercial real estate is empty, the condo itself is almost entirely empty when viewed at night. Or how about the Telus tower region where the contractors had pushed the area to international investors who converted the low quality (see how much glass breaks and current work-orders out on these buildings) into party buildings. Drug raids, noise complaints, and perpetual renovations plague these places due to the owners not both properly maintaining them as well as the home occupiers negligences. I say all that without a solution mind you, I just see these as a Toronto resident. One who has seen rent prices now sit at over $1,700CAD + utilities for a bachelor/studio. I just want to bring this up in your video as it shines a completely different light on the issue. It sounds like from this video that the issue is that there isn’t enough and that the city needs more. We don’t we need the industry to recognize that the market is getting to a point where the people who NEED to live in this city are very close to not being able to as prices reflect artificial or incorrect data.

Great video! Well done with your works, amazing video, and very informative as well 👍

Excellent report! Toronto has a world class skyline!

My dad is a glazer working at the One right now, he says it is by far one of the most interesting and complex projects he has worked on

The TV show 'Suits' shot most of its Manhattan street scenes in Toronto.

Glad to see a video of Toronto skyscrapers

Boston, MA, Worcester, MA, and Providence, RI are used as stand-ins for each other as well as NYC for a lot of movies. American Hustle, RIPD, and Honest Thief, The Equalizer, and Black Panther to name a few.

Auckland, Sydney, Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary, New England are rapidly urbanizing too.

It's like New York or Chicago but with much much less violent crimes, and universal healthcare

It's been a long time since I have been to Toronto. With all the new editions I might have to return. I am sure Toronto is still a wonderful city.

This was great… subscribed

That freeway in Toronto is a BEAST! 😳

Are those towers really for immigrants because that sounds very unlikely. Looks like a reprise of billionaires row with it's new shiny money laundering towers. Remember when they said those objects were built to combat a growing housing issue? Nobody lives in those towers, definetly not the ones needing a home. I am not being critical towards these towers; I think they are wonderful pieces of achitecture and engineering and I am glad these structures exist. However I am critical of US's and Canada's zoning laws that prevent affordable housing from being built. Canadians love boasting about how progressive they are, yet they can't get their cities in order. It's easy to call yourself progressive socially but stay deeply conservative politically.

Love Toronto getting more YT attention! We have some really interesting transit projects like the Eglinton LRT and the Ontario line that could make for good B1M videos.

We live downtown TO, maybe 10 min walk from The One. We're seeing this first hand, watching from our balcony. Old stock apartments being torn down one by one, sometimes two at a time. The march to Manhattanize gets closer and closer to our apartment. Only a matter of time before the notice lands on our doorstep. Affordability? Not a word for downtown. After nearly 20 years here where do we go?

Same in Shenzhen, I remembered as a kid back in the early 90s, the tallest building was the Guomao building at 500 feet, with a rotating restaurant on the 40th top floor. Now that building is absolutely dwarfed by any of the surrounding buildings and appears tiny. Going back in 2005, there's Shun Hing square which was twice as tall, and 2017 with the Ping An center which is 2000 feet tall. There are over 300 buildings there over 600 feet tall. Shenzhen has become just as expensive as NYC yet the average wage is a mere $1500 per month. A basic 500 sqft apartment costs $800000 in Shenzhen for reference. Shenzhen started out as a fishing village 50 years ago and now is as big as NYC

Love Toronto! Have lived in the city my nearly 72 years. Wonderful city; lots of green space, diverse community neighbourhoods - great restaurants & shopping.Close to Lake Ontario beaches, very walkable, bicycle or take the streetcar/subway to enjoy this vibrant city.

Been there, very beautiful city!

I grew up in Toronto and it’s truly amazing 🔥

The "New York" scenes never fooled me because I'm from Toronto and I can either recognize the locations or the obvious traffic lights that don't look American. Kind of ruins the movies for me sometimes unfortunately....

I recognized this was happening years ago, glad others see it

I bet these apartments will be very affordable 😂

Toronto is WORLD CLASS. And then there is the GREEN BELT which surrounds the city. One of the largest and most beautiful green belts in the world.

Love this channel and amazing to see Toronto highlighted. Toronto is quickly becoming one of the true global cities.

So cool to see Toronto get some attention from a big channel since it usually gets overlooked because of the US's proximity.

Toronto's condo boom has been going on for over 20 years now. Over this time-period, you would have a hard time NOT finding a period where there were less than 100 developments under construction at one time. The only real difference is that in terms of height, 70 floors is the new 50, and 80-90+ floors raises few eyebrows. In 2010 Toronto hosted the G20. This was during the aftermath for the Financial Crisis. The world was still reeling. When representatives and leaders from around the world arrived, and saw building cranes dotting the skyline in every direction, then Toronto mayor David Miller described their reaction as "stunned disbelief" at the flurry of construction activity, as they had NO construction cranes back home. There was a slight pause of new development releases for a few months during the financial crisis, but when you have north of 100 construction developments already under way, that pause is imperceptible. Whether it was the 2008 financial crisis or the global pandemic the skyscraper building boom has continued unabated since the late 90's. Much to the chagrin of those who have been calling for a bursting of the bubble for 20 years now. Toronto overtook Los Angeles as the #1 immigrant destination in North America before the pandemic. We need somewhere to house these people. I am hoping B1M will be back to cover the Frank Gehry designed condo development (renamed Forma). It's a stunning development that will become a city icon once completed. www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2022/03/toronto-frank-gehry-condo-skyscrapers/ I'm a long-time subscriber of your channel. Keep up the great work.

SO happy i left Toronto five years ago. too busy, hectic, too many people and expensive. NEVER going back.

Finally a video about my home town 🙏🏻

I live in the heart of downtown Toronto. Right now there are about 15 yellow NYC cabs outside my window - Nicholas Cage movie.

Toronto definitely gives me more Chicago vibes than NY. When I was there the feel, the skyline, the density, everything felt like Chicago to me. If it weren’t for the CN tower, the skyline looks like Chicago. Calling it a New York is a stretch.

I'm in high school right now, and I think that when I graduate college, I want to move to Toronto! I'll be finished in 2029, so then hopefully some of the projects will be done!