Etobicoke City Centre, Toronto

Etobicoke City Centre is a dense, high-rise part of Toronto centred on the Islington and Kipling transit stations, where condo apartments make up most of the housing and small parks are scattered between the towers. The area is laid out around a few busy arterial roads and the rail and subway corridor, with local streets branching off in a mix of grid and curving patterns. Density is high near the stations, where apartment towers and mid-rise buildings dominate. Most homes sold here were built between 2003 and 2023, so the building stock is largely recent glass-and-concrete construction, with lower-rise houses and older buildings on the quieter streets. Of the 530 homes sold in the last 24 months, 80% were condo apartments and 7% were detached houses. The typical home sold has 2 bedrooms. The median sale price over that period was $560,000, and the median time on the market was 25 days. There are currently 33 homes for sale. Getting around centres on three facilities inside the area: Islington, Kipling and Islington Bus Terminal. Islington and Kipling are on the Bloor-Danforth subway line (Line 2), and Kipling also connects with GO Transit rail. Bloor Street, Dundas Street and Kipling Avenue are the main roads, and Highway 427 and the Gardiner Expressway and Queen Elizabeth Way corridor are reachable to the south and east. Surface bus routes run along the main roads and feed the stations. Shops and services are mostly grouped along the main roads and near the stations. They include cafes, grocery stores, restaurants and pharmacies, along with other everyday services at street level in the newer buildings. Green space is made up of small and mid-sized parks: 20 Thomas Riley Road Parkette, Alotment Garden Parkette, Islington Parkette, Kenway Park, Michael Power Park, Queensland Park, Senator Marian Maloney Park and Silverhill Park. The Cloverdale Common is the community centre in the area. No library is on record inside the area. Four schools are inside the area: Etobicoke Secondary Alternative School and Islington Junior Middle School, both Toronto DSB, and Holy Angels Catholic School and St Elizabeth Catholic School, both Toronto CDSB.