Corktown Homes & Real Estate Toronto

Corktown occupies a narrow area reaching east from Jarvis Street (approx.) to the Don River and north from Front Street (approx.) to Queen Street East. The neighbourhood’s name is believed to have derived from the original Irish settlers, many from County Cork, who arrived in the early 1800s and found work in local brickworks and breweries.

It is not so very long since few downtown-home seekers would spare a thought for this neighbourhood (if they even knew it existed). But now, as with many other older parts of the city, change is coming Corktown — and in a big way.

The diminishing availability of affordable housing in the downtown area has led inevitably to interest in the Victorian mews homes of Corktown, and a demographic shift from blue to white collar.

Change and revitalization are taking place in this once determinedly working-class community, as young professionals make it their own. New zoning bylaws have spawned conversion of many Corktown commercial buildings into live-in work studios, condo lofts and professional offices, all of which has helped to rejuvenate the entire neighbourhood.

Meanwhile, renewal is occurring all along Corktown’s periphery. The first major project was the rebirth of the Distillery District to the southeast, with its Gooderham and Worts Distillery condos and lofts.

Next up... the reshaping of Regent Park to the north, a multi-year mega project that will rebuild the community and reintegrate it with the rest of the city.

At the east end of Corktown, on unused land along the banks of the Don River, the massive West Don Development project is underway — building an entire new community that will be home to thousands of new residents.

With so much renewal activity at the doorstep, the popularity and value of Corktown homes and real estate seem destined to increase substantially in the near and mid term.

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