A zoning by-law amendment has been submitted to facilitate the redevelopment of the site for a 50-storey residential building having a gross floor area of 35,867 square metres. 623 residential dwelling units are proposed, of which, 81 are rental replacement dwelling units. UrbanToronto
An application has been submitted to redevelop 16-26 Cosburn Avenue with a proposed 27-storey condominium building designed by BDP Quadrangle for KingSett Capital on the north side of Cosburn Avenue west of Logan Avenue, in East York. UrbanToronto, Application Details
The folks over at BlogTO seem impressed by the proposal. What do you think?
Beautiful condo tower set to replace a tired old block of Toronto homes https://t.co/783c5oUvUr #Toronto #TorontoRealEstate #RealEstate
— blogTO (@blogTO) May 22, 2022
Cadillac Fairview has announced its intention, if approved, to remake its long-time Sheppard Ave shopping mall into a combination high-rise heaven with stores down below. The so-called Phase One would see towers 38, 48 and 58 storeys. The company hasn’t released what it has planned for further phases. Urban Toronto
The Ontario government’s reconstruction of the Go Transit line will carry the green and white commuter cars over the CPR mainline and bring an end forever to the railway intersection known for more than 130 years as Diamond Junction. That’s how the west-end neighbourhood got its name. There will be new bridges all along the GO line in the Junction. One will greatly improve the look of Bloor St W and another will permit cars to travel under the GO line for the first time ever on Wallace Ave. Generations of Junction residents have resigned themselves to climbing the pedestrian stairs at Wallace to cross the tracks. It’s all outlined at Urban Toronto with some compelling photos and other images.
It’s 2022 and there’s no better evidence of that than the photo at upper left of the nearly finished Leaside LRT station on the southeast corner of Bayview Ave and Eglinton Ave. You used to eat Big Macs above it. Then at upper right is a fun reminder from the past on the Mount Pleasant Village BIA Facebook page. That’s the Bank of Toronto building at Mt. Pleasant and Belsize Drive. Looks like parade day. Bank of Toronto merged with the Dominion Bank in 1955. Below that are some happy yellow roses seen at Longo’s. They convey friendship, it’s said. Further down we see a diagram of the proposed triangular condo on Pape Ave smack up against the Metrolinx rail line. It comes with a 4.4 metre high “crash wall”. Hmm. Finally, decades of memories will be all that’s left as this noble maple on Randolph Rd north of Millwood Rd. comes down.
Treehugger website has written a glowing review of a proposed development in the Leaside Business Park as the future of post-pandemic offices. Treehugger is self described as “the only modern sustainability site that offers advice, clarity, and inspiration for both the eco-savvy and the green-living novice”.
The developer has promoted the project at 154 Wicksteed Avenue as The Leaside Innovation Centre, “a state-of-the-art boutique office building designed to meet the needs of the high-tech industry in southern Ontario with innovation and sustainability as guiding principles. … The building will be one of Toronto’s first mass timber buildings taking advantage of recent changes in the Ontario Building Code allowing the use of heavy timber structure up to 6 storeys.”
Architects and builders turn to "mass timber"—an engineered wood product similar in strength to concrete and steel—to build multistory buildings. “When you come inside, the smell of the timber is almost like you enter a forest.” https://t.co/RwyPPlTTxm
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) April 11, 2022
A sign has gone up at the long-time plaza on the southeast corner of Eglinton East and Brentcliffe Drive telling of a high-rise development proposal. It’s the location of the long-standing Staples as well as Marshalls and HomeSense. These last two stores (and Winners) are operated by the US conglomerate T.J. Maxx. It’s across Brentcliffe from the sky-scraping Upper East Village towers. Application to building department is for 4 new residential buildings (containing 1,279 units) ranging in height from 16 to 28 storeys. UrbanTO, Streets of Toronto
Details of the mid-rise residential development that will include the historic 1922 Capitol Theatre building at Yonge St and Castlefield Ave have been released. The theatre and its long commercial block were made a heritage building in 2016. Urban Toronto
Slate Asset Management, owners of just about everything at the corner of Yonge St and St. Clair Ave, are proposing a mixed retail, office and residential tower rising 49 floors on the southwest corner. Urban Toronto
Surprise, North Leaside. The latest LRT-inspired tower proposal is a 25-storey mixed-use condominium building at the designated address of 1837 Bayview Ave on the southeast corner of Broadway Ave. Urban Toronto
The familiar commercial flatlands of Scarborough’s Golden Mile are facing the same upward development frenzy as the rest of Eglinton Ave. As reported by Urban Toronto, as many as 12 active development applications along the new LRT route would see it transformed into a residential and commercial canyon.
A reader of the development site Urban Toronto has photoshopped pictures of the signs at what was the Logan Ave ramp to the Gardiner Expressway. He changed the signs from Road Closed to Road No Longer Exists. Cute.
