Christie Pits Real Estate offers excellent choices for homes in the heart of Toronto!

If you're looking for a home or residence in the heart of Toronto that offers everything - good value, comfort, access to amenities, and old neighbourhood charm, Christie Pits is it. The area begins just west of Toronto's Korean village and runs through to Dovercourt Park. It's an superior area for families and offers schools, parks, shopping and TTC transportation all in close proximity.

Christie Pits Park, originally Willowvale Park, is a Toronto public recreational area located at 750 Bloor Street West at Christie Street, just west from the TTC Christie subway station. The park is best known for its baseball diamonds, one of which is full-sized and fenced that was re-named "Dominico Field" in 2010 after Jack Dominico, the owner of the semi-professional Toronto Maple Leafs who use the diamond for their Intercounty Baseball League games.

The Christie Pits park has an area of 21.9 acres, about half of which is grassed picnic areas, the rest being various sports fields. Sports facilities on the site include three baseball diamonds, basketball courts, asoccer/rugby/football field, ice rink, splash pad and pool. The sides of the pits are highly sloped, and are used in winter for tobogganing and related activities. Garrison Creek runs under "the pits", and can be clearly seen in winter.

The park was named after a Toronto icon and the sand pits which were on the location until the early 1900s. By 1909, the sand was depleted and the city turned the former quarry into Willowvale Park. However, the name has endured and is used in reference to the park and the surrounding neighbourhood to this day. The sand pits had been named after Christie Street, which was named after William Mellis Christie, co-founder of the Christie & Brown Cookie Company, now known simply asMr. Christie.

Today, the real estate and neighborhoods around the area are some of the finest in the city and feature large homes, large real estate parcels, all carefully tended and tucked into a generous park-like environment. The area remains one of the most desired and sought-after residential sites in urban Toronto.

In the future the city is planning to renovate many aspects of the park to include a community garden, a bike path, and a fully accessible swing. The "spash pad" will also be revitalised.

There is a strong neighbourhood associations in the area of people who live around the park and who think our park needs some Friends to advocate for it and give it some love. The Friends formed in August 2007 and one of our first activities has been to water and protect the 91 trees planted in the park in Summer 2007. Future activities planned for 2008 are continued care for the trees and advocating for planting more trees around the perimeter of the park.

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All in all, this area is one of the finest and most stimulating family environments along Bloor Street West.