BLOOR STREET
TRANSFORMATION

The one-kilometre stretch of Bloor Street between Church Street and Avenue Road is the city’s premier shopping district. Over the past four years, the district has witnessed the restoration and expansion of several cherished cultural institutions, and the development of several five-star hotel and luxury condominium projects.

planningAlliance, together with Brown + Storey Architects, was commissioned to provide a much-needed upgrade to the quality of public space in the Bloor-Yorkville precinct, in keeping with its cultural and economic stature. Improvements include widened granite sidewalks, public art, new lighting and street furnishings, and continuous planting areas with mature trees, shrubs and flowers in raised beds. Construction began in 2007 and was completed in 2009.

BLOOR YORKVILLE BIA
CITY OF TORONTO
TORONTO, CANADA
2005