{"id":34736,"date":"2026-03-20T04:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/sea-change-urbantoronto\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T04:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:50:15","slug":"sea-change-urbantoronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/sea-change-urbantoronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Change | UrbanToronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p>A sea of cars surrounds Yorkdale Shopping Centre (unseen, off to the left). Recently built residential towers in the background, however, signal the sea-change that is coming to this parking lot, and many such Toronto shopping centre parking lots over the coming years. Across the street is the first high-rise redevelopment in the surroundings, a trend that will soon enough overtake Yorkdale, sequestering the cars in garages when more residential towers and pedestrian mews bring high-density development to car-centred wastelands.<\/p>\n<p><imgx class=\"image-display_default\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyrisecities.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/articles\/2026\/03\/60589\/60589-195191.jpg\" data-entity-uuid=\"insert-display_default-7960894f-5189-4d20-abd9-d1753baacca6\" data-entity-type=\"file\" alt=\"A sea of cars fill the foreground, while pioneering towers herald a wave of coming redevelopment, Toronto\" title=\"A sea of cars fill the foreground, while pioneering towers herald a wave of coming redevelopment, image by UrbanToronto Forum contributor Johnny Au\" onclick=\"photo('https:\/\/cdn.skyrisecities.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/articles\/2026\/03\/60589\/60589-195191.jpg', true, 'A sea of cars fill the foreground, while pioneering towers herald a wave of coming redevelopment, image by UrbanToronto Forum contributor Johnny Au'); return false;\"><span class=\"image-description\">A sea of cars fill the foreground, while pioneering towers herald a wave of coming redevelopment, image by UrbanToronto Forum contributor Johnny Au<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This image comes to us courtesy of UrbanToronto Forum contributor <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/urbantoronto.ca\/forum\/threads\/toronto-sloane-103-4m-30s-fitzrovia-arcadis.26060\/post-2321555\" target=\"_blank\">Johnny Au<\/a>. 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