Category: UrbanToronto

Residents of Mt. Pleasant West have been invited by the City to offer input on the design of a new park to be created on the northeast corner of Broadway Ave and Redpath Ave. The address is 100 Broadway. The planned park, which is said to be 746 square metres was a donation from the builders of the Pharrell Williams condominium at the same location. Mr. Williams is a well-known US singer, songwriter and producer who for reasons not very clear is associated with the development.

Oxford Properties has submitted a Zoning By-law Amendment application to the City seeking to redevelop its 9.2-acre Midtown Toronto site known as Canada Square. It would offer a mixed-use complex of five office and residential skyscrapers and two hectares or nearly five acres of open space.  Urban Toronto

A redesigned proposal for a five-story condominium building at 922 Millwood Rd (at Randolph Rd) contains ground-floor retail space. This is the site of the former Stanley Cleaners. The designers, are Makow Associates Architects for Hamr Millwood Investments. The revised plan calls for a building rising 22 metres, marking a slight increase from the 21.03 height proposed in 2019. The building is planned to contain 30 condominium units, reduced from the 35 proposed in 2019. These are now planned in a mix of 16 one-bedrooms, 6 two-bedrooms, and 8 three-bedroom units. A Facebook post raises this question:

The delay to approving this project was the community’s concern regarding underground parking for 30 condo units being a corner lot which backs onto Krawchuk Lane beside Randolph Road where will the entrance/exit be for these vehicles? Being a safety issue for it’s potential new residents this question is yet to be answered

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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.

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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.