The Beach earns a spot among Toronto's most anti-condo neighbourhoods
Toronto Life (blog)
Last Monday, a vocal and well-organized group of residents gathered for a tense meeting about Reserve Properties' plan to build a six-storey condo on Queen Street East (a city staffer's hands reportedly even shook as she faced them) and another ...
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A walk through Toronto housing history
NOW Magazine
By Ben Spurr There's a sign outside the apartment buildings at 1555 Queen Street East that identifies them as social housing units, but it's hardly necessary. You're not likely to mistake them for anything else. Plain, squat, and unattractive, ...
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Beach NIMBYs try to hold condos at bay
Open File (blog)
The Star has an article about the latest controversy, over a six-storey condo building that's being proposed by Reserve Properties Ltd. for Queen Street East and Kenilworth Avenue. The opposition is as strong as ever, as the Star's quotes and ...
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The Beach: Will the condo boom kill it or save it?
Toronto Star
Reserve's application for the Lick's site must still be approved by community and city councils in the coming months; another less controversial project, the conversion of an existing Queen St. E. church to a five-storey condo, is already going ahead.
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The Beach: Would you turn down more than $1 million?
Toronto Star
... and Woodbine, one already underway and one in the early application stages. ... The Beach is the Beach, it's not downtown Toronto.” She's staying put.

City planner ruins the party at Queen Street meeting
Beach Metro News
However, Lintern, while speaking to over 250 residents at Kew Beach Public ... future development site, at the northeast corner of Queen and Woodbine.

Doug Ford and the Port Lands: that sinking feeling - Waterfront Toronto

Years from now, once the dust has settled, it will be clear that the Battle of the Port Lands was but a single skirmish in a larger war over the future of Toronto. The fight has been raging since last summer, when the rookie councillor from Etobicoke, Doug Ford, mused publicly about the "boondoggle" that is waterfront revitalization and then proposed his own Coney Island vision of the 400-hectare site.

The house that Sam built still stands
Toronto Star
In fact, between 1987 and 1990, in association with Easton/Phillips Development Association, the Sorbara Group renovated the entire complex of buildings on the old Dominion site along Queen St. E. into trendy commercial and retails spaces.
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Taming Queen developments
Beach Metro News
Local historian Gene Domagala described how the history of the Beach has shaped a ... However, with eight identified sites from Woodbine to Lee that are ...

Sold: Builder intends to create new luxury home on site
National Post
By Connie Adair The Beach 9 Glen Ames (Kingston Road and Woodbine Avenue) Asking price: $689000 Sold for: $680000 Taxes: $4329 (2011) Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: ...