Parkway Forest is a neighbourhood in Toronto

Toronto

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, Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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. It is located in the north of the city, in the former City of North York. North York was merged with five other municipalities and a regional government to form the new "City of Toronto" in 1998.

Parkway Forest is bounded on the west by Don Mills Road, on the north by Sheppard Avenue, on the east by the Don Valley Parkway

Don Valley Parkway

The Don Valley Parkway is a controlled-access six-lane municipal expressway in Toronto connecting the Gardiner Expressway in downtown Toronto with Ontario Highway 401, the Macdonald–Cartier Freeway. North of Highway 401, it continues as Ontario Highway 404. The parkway runs through...

, and on the south by Highway 401.

It is a dense development of luxury condominiums, high-rise rental apartment buildings, low-rise rental apartment buildings and townhouse

Townhouse

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 complexes. Parkway Forest has a large open park (Parkway Forest Park), a firehouse, a recreation centre, a shopping plaza (Parkway Forest Plaza), and a public school (Forest Manor Public School).

It sits directly to the south of the Fairview Mall

Fairview Mall

Fairview Mall is a major shopping centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada of about 80,000 m² , located at the northeast corner of Don Mills Road and Sheppard Avenue in the former borough of North York...

 shopping centre, and is served by the Don Mills subway station

Don Mills (TTC)

Don Mills is the eastern terminus station of the Sheppard line of the subway system in Toronto, Canada. It is also a "Vivastation" on the Viva Green line of York Region's Viva bus rapid transit system...

 on the Toronto Transit Commission

Toronto Transit Commission

-Island Ferry:The ferry service to the Toronto Islands was operated by the TTC from 1927 until 1962, when it was transferred to the Metro Parks and Culture department. Since 1998, the ferry service is run by Toronto Parks and Recreation.-Gray Coach:...

's Sheppard subway line.

A new "affordable-housing development" has recently been constructed adjacent to Parkway Forest Plaza, at 121 Parkway Forest Dr. The apartment building occupies what used to be the heavily-wooded Forest Manor Park.

In early 2005, the North York Community Council committee of the Toronto City Council rejected a proposal to replace many of the low-rise apartment buildings and townhouses by seven high-rise condominium

Condominium

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towers ranging in height from 39 to 49 storeys. In July 2009, construction of two 9-storey replacement rental towers began at the corner of Forest Manor and Sheppard. This is supposedly going to result in the removal of two of the apartment buildings adjacent to these two construction sites. The removal of the older rental complexes east of the construction site, at the intersection of Don Mills and Sheppard, will be the site of the future high-rise luxury condominium towers known as Emerald City.