Article contentAsk a Torontonian to name a few of the city’s 140 neighbourhoods, and Leslieville and The Beaches may well come up. It’s much less often you’ll hear Coastal Queen East mentioned — unless, that is, the respondent works for Context Development or RioCan Living, the two developers behind the new Queen Ashbridge condo project rising over the intersection of Queen Street East and Coxwell Avenue. Try refreshing your browser, or The new east coast Back to video“There’s so much green space and soft sand between the QA site and the lake that we felt the area needed a more evocative name,” explains Context principal Howard Cohen. According to the City of Toronto, the 17-storey building is actually in the lesser-known neighbourhood of Greenwood-Coxwell, the southern end of which has been informally dubbed Coastal Queen East by Context and Rioan. An eight-storey podium will line Queen Street.

Source: National Post October 07, 2020 14:15 UTC