picard102
Senior Member
Are there any new apartment buildings going up in Toronto? Seems like it's all condo development as of late.
There's also a new rental building under construction at Mt. Pleasant and Erskine.
I don't know if you'd consider Queen West. I was in that newish apartment building on Lisgar for the first time last weekend and left rather impressed--yeah, the suites are smaller than my 1960's slab but it's modern, clean, quiet and seems to be affordable.
I lived there for two months in between selling & waiting for a condo to be completed & hated it. My friends lived in there ("The Americana"), the rent was cheap and big apartments but there were bugs and the building was an all 'round dump plus I disliked the area intensely. Too far from downtown too.
The only negatives to living here is all the construction that is set to start--public housing buildings across the street, Art condos nearby, etc--and the disgusting douche bags that create noise at night going to all the nearby bars--aka those drake and social ho's....
I've lived at Yonge & Eg for a long time and while I'm anticipating my move to St. Lawrence Market, I wouldn't consider Yonge & Eg too far from downtown considering it's on the subway line. It takes someone living on King West a longer time to get to Union Station than I do. In big cities, distance is relative to the infrastructure that's in place. With that said, I never go north of a few blocks of Eglinton and am always heading downtown. North of Lawrence is out of the question for me. Taking the subway to Sheppard feels like an eternity.
While we are on this topic, can anyone recommend "newer" apartments that are clean and well managed? All I'm looking for is something downtown or near downtown with central air. My building was so great when I moved in but now it is being run into the ground by the REIT who owns it and it's time to go. I'm looking for a two bedroom under $1800/month. And no, I'm not at a point in my life where I want to buy.