MDC - Ever expanding?

On a personal note, I'm participating in Movember this year. Men grow out their moustaches to raise awareness for prostate cancer and funds for cancer research. My 'stache is fair so I decided to grow out my beard and shave everything but the moustache before the end of November. Have a look at my Movember page and if you feel so inclined donate a little; it's for a good cause after all.

Winter is coming :) and so the current weather doesn't make for good pictures; or at least not with my camera and no polarizing filter. So I'll use the pictures I took before I first started this MDC (my daily commute) series.

At this point I had walked around the AirCanada Centre (see last post) and captured the back side of Union Station (click here for the wiki link). As you can see this is currently under construction and as this station is the main station of Toronto the daily commute for the approximately 200,000 riders is not exactly a highlight of the day. On the other side, the overhaul is desperately needed and they are planning to be done with it before the 2015 Pan Am games. In my case, all the foot traffic is a good reason to stay clear of going through the station, despite it being a potential 'short cut'. For those who read my previous entry, you may have recognized the golden CIBC building and the TD tower in the background.

So leaving Union Station behind, the street opens up and reveals a number of construction sites (even more than are on this picture) and a fully rented out condominium building in the middle of it. That finished building was the one we lived in previously (pretty much on the middle or 26th floor to the left). I guess at this point I don't have to explain our motivation to move this summer. After a lot of thought and time was put in, we found one of the few condos that are not neighbouring a construction site. Toronto's downtown has over 130 high-rise construction sites at this time, so finding a spot without one is actually a challenge. But I also found it very interesting as with every flat visited a new point of view on the city is gained.

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