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Sunday afternoon, September 12, 2010.

By this time, the chimney was the only structure left standing on the Tower Automotive property, aside from the tower itself.

A couple of weeks before, I took this photo from inside the boiler house that surrounded the chimney.

More photos from September 12th are here.

The end of August and into September was not a kind month to the vacant Tower Automotive property on Sterling Rd. In the span of a month, all of the buildings on the property have been demolished, besides the iconic 11-story industrial tower. The amazing old facades along Perth Ave. and Sterling Rd. were knocked down first, followed by the boiler house, and eventually the old chimney stack.

I took this photo inside the boiler house on August 28th 2010, just after demolition had started. A few days later, it was gone.

I will post a few more photos from this demolition over the next few days. I sure took alot of pics here, but I want to remember how it looked, and be able to compare it to whatever gets developed here over the next few years.

Another exterior shot of Ontario Redi-Mix on Wade Ave. This is the view from Erwin Krickhahn Park on Rankin Cres. in the Junction Triangle.

It will be interesting to see if this place gets re-used (doubt it), pillaged and vandalized (probably), and eventually torn down to be replaced with something better (probably, but who knows when?).

August 10, 2010.

The rest of my photos from Redi-Mix are posted here.

Looking down from the upper level of the vacant Ontario Redi-Mix plant on Wade Ave. There's a decent view of the surrounding area up here: The Redi-Mix gravel yard, GO Transit's Barrie Line tracks, and over into Erwin Krickhahn Park in the Junction Triangle. Probably an even better view from up on the silos. :)

The rest of my photos from Redi-Mix are posted here.

I was taking a photo of this sign at the vacant Ontario Redi-Mix plant on Wade Ave., when a fellow explorer/photographer walked into the frame. I actually like this photo much better than the one I was trying to take.

August 1, 2010.

The rest of my photos from Redi-Mix are posted here.

The gravel yard at Ontario Redi-Mix on Wade Ave., near Bloor and Lansdowne. The shovels remain where the former employees left them at the end of their final shift.

August 1, 2010.

The rest of my photos from Redi-Mix are posted here.

Exploring the vacant Ontario Redi-Mix concrete facility on Wade Ave., near Bloor and Lansdowne. Much of the site is completely encrusted with many years worth of concrete dust, often settling into really interesting patterns and shapes, especially under the silos where the concrete was pumped into cement trucks for delivery.

August 1, 2010.

The rest of my photos from Redi-Mix are posted here.

Who wants a margarita?! If you bring the tequila, I've got the lemon juice and PCBs!

Photo taken on July 17 2010, at the Toronto Hydro property on Sterling Rd. where they just demolished a nice old building. Needless to say, there's a wee bit of PCB contamination there...

Some random thoughts inside a notebook left in the former D&M Building Supplies on Wallace Ave.

Friday evening sunset over the Junction Triangle, as seen from 229 Wallace Ave., a former hardware store being demolished to make way for new lofts.

There's probably some kind of poetic nonsense that someone could come up with about setting suns, the end of an era, rebirth, and other gobledygook about a changing neighbourhood, but I'll leave that up to you.