From Bathurst to Spadina, the north side is a mix of residential apartments and commercial development.

East of Blue Jays Way (the extension of Peter Street south), the area becomes commercial.

On the north side of the street are office buildings, including the headquarters for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

151 Front Street West [2] is a carrier hotel that houses more than a hundred telecommunication companies, as well as the Toronto Internet Exchange.

In this stretch, both sides of the street are reserved for parking for cabs and passenger drop-offs, and there is a center divider.

On the north-east corner is the Brookfield Place office complex, which incorporates some heritage buildings along Yonge Street.

Along the south side to the east of the theatre are 19th Century commercial low-rise heritage buildings.

The area is now vacant and partly filled with the new buildings of the West Don Lands development.

The area east of Cherry Street to the south was the site of the 2015 Pan American Games Athletes' Village, which will become the Canary District housing development.

At Bayview, the street ends at the Corktown Common park, once the site of the William Davies Company meat packing factory complex.

Russell Creek was filled in by 1842 and the area of the mouth became the site of the third Upper Canada Parliament Buildings.

A proposal to extend Front Street was made in 1999 as part of efforts to develop the waterfront by the City of Toronto.

The plan would have extended the road west to Dufferin Street, adding connections to the Gardiner Expressway.

While the plan was in development, two local entrepreneurs, Fred Dominelli who later became a city councillor, and Dale Martin, purchased some land on the extension's right-of-way for $280,000.