I think it's positive that the Spire has started construction, since this will improve the skyline since it will appear to be wide when seen from the lake. Does anyone of you know of any significant projects east of the BCE-place, besides the proposed Hummingbird-Centre(188 m)?

I believe the East Bayfront area (Queen's Quay from Yonge to Cherry St) will be highrise development. I believe I read somewhere, that the city is interested in capping off the eastern part of the downtown skyline with a significant building to offset the CN Tower on the west.






KGB

Sounds very interesting. That would be a 200 m+ office or condo tower or something like that???

No idea...but that stretch of Queen's Quay is to be the first phase of redeveloping the massive Portlands. And it will be the area that has the most highrises...the rest of the Portlands will be more lowrise development.






KGB

It seems to be moving WEST - see Cityplace, Waterparkcity, Fort York, and some buidlings going up along the Queensway near the lake, plus southern Etoblicoke.
It's moving WEST, but that does not mean it won't also move NOTH (Yonge and Eg) and East as well. The only direction that seems right out is SOUTH.

There is also the West Don Lands Precint area (which is "east" of Yonge), but I believe that it is to be mostly mid-rise. By the way, does anyone know what would go first: the East Bayfront or West Don Lands.

I would also say it seems to be moving West first, and will be the first new large impact on the skyline (esp. CityPlace). I don't see why it wouldn't move East either, though.

What Toronto's skyline to the east needs is the weston skyscraper
http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/547/28toronto-westinolympiatower.jpg Too bad it was cancelled in North York and Toronto most likely will never have it

yeah, let's lobby Westons for a nice landmark tower. They are the largest Canadian corporation after all. Spend a little, dammit!

"No idea...but that stretch of Queen's Quay is to be the first phase of redeveloping the massive Portlands. And it will be the area that has the most highrises"

I doubt very many will ecllipse 30 storeys

Let's revive the Weston and Maryon projects and transplant their locations to east downtown! (not gonna happen)

If projects such as Radio City and Spire are any hint, the East will one day serve the Toronto skyline well. I am curious as to how the condo developments around the Distillery District will pan out. The website requires you register to recieve information.

Toronto Downtown is going to be HUGE! Double the Skyline in 20 years from now. Like Chicago?

Aren't there going to be some significant towers in the Jarvis-Queen area as well?

Distillery will get 3 or 4 30-something Clewes-designed towers I would imagine (I wish they would solve their squabbling and get on with it).

The West Donlands directly east of the Distillery will probably get some highrises too...but I doubt anything really tall...wouldn't fit in with the design of that new neighbourhood anyway....I don't think transplanting Cityplaces all over the place is a good idea.

The western fringes of downtown (Bathurst to Dufferin) is obviously the more desirable area, and will probably continue to get the bulk of the highrises....but the eastern fringes (Jarvis to Don Valley) is highly under-rated...it offers developers cheaper sites to develope, and once it gets to a certain point, this fairly neglected area of downtown will become very desireable.




KGB

I do believe that the east side of downtown will get some infill eventually. The west side has one big advantage in the City Place developement that in it self really makes it look as if there is much more happening there than in the east.

There's gonna be Cooke's Church, SP!RE, Jazz, the Metropolitan, Met Condos, Wellesley Hospital Redevelopement, and something in the Distilley Disctrict called 30 Mill St. or something like that, can't remember the name...

The skyline is moving westward because of the Cityplace Buildings!!

How to move east without subway? There is no subway in this area...LRT promiced to be built (which is in fact, an old streetcar). Seriously, this is one of the reasons why developers are so reluctant to move from downtown core to areas along the lake - even cityplace is really next door to Union station. Apparently, developers will go there - but less enthusiastically than in they could be.
BTW, that's one of the reasons (I believe) why AGO leaders resisted relocation to waterfront - no reliable public transportation. Ontario Place/CNE - good example of it.

^more so the land along the waterfront east of yonge is not yet available to developers.

Strong NIMBYism with full support of council is another