CRANE STYLE: This may be an obvious observation, but there sure are a lot of cranes in the West Don Lands these days. Photo by Skyjacked, via Urban Toronto. Hope everyone had a delightful Family Day weekend. Here’s what’s happening in Corktown these days: The Toronto Star‘s Andrea Gordon strums a few chords with our own Corktown…

TIME FOR A DIP: The Regent Park Aquatic Centre at Sumach Street & Dundas Street East was officially opened last week. Photo via Councillor Pam McConnell. The new Regent Park Aquatic Centre was officially opened last week. If you haven’t been by already, it’s by all accounts an awesome venue for both youth and adults,…

COLOURS OF FALL: An autumn skyline, taken from just outside the new Trinity Lofts development. Photo by Dan Philips.  Here’s a scoop. The new Corktown Neighbourhood Mural is ready for viewing – check it out on the side of the Green Roofs wall facing Sackville Park. Read the full press release from the Corktown Residents and Business…

ONCE AND FUTURE KING: The new L Tower caps off the changing perspective on King Street East through Corktown. Photo by Jason Zed. Body Blitz, Corktown’s newest water spa for women, held a gala opening party last week, attended by the likes of Jim Cuddy and Caitlin Cronenberg. There was also a mermaid. Check out…

Big news today from Waterfront Toronto: Torontonians can now enjoy phase one of Underpass Park, an extraordinarily original and innovative new waterfront public park. Underpass Park is the most extensive park to ever be built under an overpass in Canada, and the first of its kind in Toronto. Located in the West Don Lands under and…