Toronto: Where Champions Live

The last condo in the Canary District--a master-planned community that'll initially serve as the Athletes' Village for the 2015 Pan Am Games--has topped off. "I know I shouldn't be doing this but I am going to do it anyway," Kilmer Group vice chairman Ken Tanenbaum (right, with Dundee Kilmer Developments president Jason Lester) told us as we snapped this pic. (Hey, if Steven Seagal can do it outside the TCL Chinese Theater, than you're more than qualified, Ken.) After it's done with the games, the community will transform into a live-work-play area for the rest of us folks who don't look good in gym shorts. On our tour, we saw the 82k SF YMCA in the distance, and beyond that the 500-bed residence for George Brown College. There will also be two affordable rental buildings and the condo districts.

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