Category: UrbanToronto

Go figure. Online shopping giant Amazon, is considering moving fulfillment centres into suffering bricks & mortar shopping malls. Plus, Cloverdale Mall is targeted for a makeover. Urban Toronto describes QuadReal’s plan as a transformion into a mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented community complete with thousands of new residents, a neighbourhood park, and plenty of new, reimagined retail.

• Wave of Store Closures to Hit Canada in the Summer of 2020
• Amazon reportedly considering mall space for fulfillment centers

Urban Toronto reports Thursday that an application has been submitted to the City to rezone the northeast corner of Eglinton Ave. West and Duplex St. to build a 65-storey condominium tower. The address would be 36 Eglinton West. It joins the frenzy of developer interest in building anywhere along the new LRT. This proposal carries with it the optimistic view that only 72 parking spaces will be required because, of course, everyone will be on the underground. Hmm. Urban Toronto

Familiar area streetscapes at the northeast corner of Yonge St. and Roehampton Ave. and at Jarvis and Dundas Sts. are proposed for high-rise redevelopment. RioCan has submitted a request to build a 37-storey mixed-use tower at 2323 Yonge Street. On Jarvis, Amexon Developments will demolish the former RCMP headquarters at 225 Jarvis with plans to build a 45-storey condominium tower at the site.

Gairloch Developments is proposing to build a nine-story condominium with 123 units on the west side of Bayview Ave. between Eglinton Ave. and Soudan Ave. It would occupy the space of nine properties north of the Bayview Avenue Church of Christ. The addresses in question are 1718 to 1734 Bayview. Gairloch is the developer which has recently received approval to build at 1414 Bayview south of Davisville Ave. Urban Toronto

UrbanToronto has reported that Rockport Group has submitted a Zoning Bylaw Amendment application for 733 Mount Pleasant Road, replacing their initial submission from 2018. Originally proposed as a 9-storey mid-rise, the developer is now proposing a 27-storey tower, with five times the number of residential units of the original application.

“The change corresponds to the changes to OPA 405, commonly known as Midtown in Focus, that were unilaterally made by the provincial government in 2019. The changes to OPA 405 came in July, 2019, when the Ford government made over 70 alterations to the Midtown official plan. Focusing on intensifying nodes surrounding transit stations, the changes allow for increased density across the board. With the subject site located roughly 160 metres south of a future Crosstown LRT Station at Eglinton and Mount Pleasant, the project is well within the radius for added density.”

More: https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2020/01/27-storey-condo-proposed-733-mount-pleasant

Previous application: https://bayview-news.com/2018/11/nine-story-mixed-use-condo-proposed-for-newbigging-site.html

Arborists and simple tree lovers alike may wonder how the lush trees shown sprouting out of every balcony of a proposed complex on Davenport Rd (at Bedford Rd) will grow adequate root systems. Plans for the curious development proposed for 306 through 326 Davenport Rd are described at Urban Toronto. It is said that in order to properly install, maintain and preserve the trees, they’d be chosen from a specific list of species that are capable of surviving in such a setting. They’d then be kept in planters that are both waterproof and thermally insulated.

A proposed development at 276 Merton St. by the Rockport Group has been resubmitted to the City showing fewer floors and a more sculpted design. Designed by Wallman Architects, the building has been reduced from 16 to 13 storeys in height. As reported by Urban Toronto, the original slab tower form stretching the depth of the 25 metre wide site is now revised into a series of shifted step backs in a somewhat pyramidal shape. Zig-zag motifs are used in different elements of the design including the precast framing, balcony placement and specific cladding pieces.

Urban Toronto has stories on Midtown developments proposed for the north side of Danforth Ave. near Donlands Ave and for the southeast corner of Davenport Rd. at Bedford Rd.

The re-making of the corner of Yonge and St. Clair by Slate Asset Management goes on with a four-floor lowering (48 to 44) of the development called One Delisle. It shows a tower made of elongated hexagonal modules pieced together in a honeycomb pattern which, as noted by Urban Toronto, is unlike any other building in Toronto The story Tuesday notes public meetings held earlier this year led by Councillor Josh Matlow’s Working Group and City Staff. They resulted in a lower height as noted. This is all about the reality of the automatic precedent whereby a building of 48 stories results in dozens of others all justified by the first.

• Three-tower proposal would change Yonge/St. Clair forever

Urban Toronto has published renderings of a 79-floor tower which would appear to move or undulate. It is proposed for 80 Bloor St. West. The striking design is said to possess “both gradual and supper stepped reductions to its floor plate as it rises” and is tapered inwardly in spots and clad in a “pleated” curtain wall glazing that would catch light at different angles to give the exterior a sense of motion.

Harry Rosen store to remain

According to Urban Toronto, the plan calls for the full retention of the existing 4,673 m² Harry Rosen flagship store and head office at 82 Bloor Street West, which would be integrated into a surrounding podium rising 17 storeys, or 63.5 metres above Bloor Street West. 62 more storeys of residences would be placed atop, bringing the tower to a height of 266.50 metres. If this proposal topped out today, it would stand as the 5th tallest building in the City. Urban Toronto

Application has been made to build this triangular eight-storey rental building at 1601 Bathurst St. opposite Heathdale Rd. The “flatiron” shape of the apartment will take advantage of and use all the space on the same-shaped property. The Kirkor Architects-designed building would bring 88 residential rental units, 79 of which would be new rental stock, to the neighborhood. Urban Toronto