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o fewer than four rental towers are rising at the west end of Garrison Common while a fifth, built as a 1,200-unit condo at the northeast corner of Fort York, has been rebranded for rent. A year from now, more than 2,600 new rental units will be a five-minute walk from the fort’s Canteen. Minto has rebranded its huge Westside building – which fills the east side of Bathurst from Front to Niagara – as 39 Niagara West. It’s right across the street from the Stackt container market but there’s still no sign of a promised grocery store. People are moving in now even as work on the building’s envelope, landscaping, retail fittings and internal amenities continues at a glacial pace. You can have a bachelor here for $1,944 a month, a twobedroom apartment for $3,164 or a three-bedroom townhouse for $4,799. That, says the web site, is “renting redefined in Toronto’s King West!” (All of these new units are in addition to the thriving rental market in the area’s several dozen condominium buildings, some of which are less than half owner-occupied. Their rental space is being eroded by the likes of Airbnb.) At the west end of Garrison Common, five Hariri-Pontarini towers are in various stages of completion on the Ordnance Triangle. The two with the diagonals are the condominiums; they are adjacent to the still-unseen park by Claude Cormier (to their right, meaning east, in the photo) and will begin greeting residents early in 2020. The other three towers going up on what the developers call Garrison Point are rental buildings of 25, 35 and 39 storeys. They’ll have a total of 1,012 units among them. Across Strachan Avenue, 39 East Liberty Street will be a rental, a bulky 25-storey IBI design with 440 units. On the fourth corner of East Liberty and Strachan will be another tall condominum, and it will complete the eastern wall of Liberty Village. Mail: 250 Fort York Blvd, Toronto, Ontario M5V 3K9 info@fortyork.ca www.fortyork.ca
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