TORONTO | 277 Wellington St. W. | 220 M / 721 FT | 65 FLOORS

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This crashing bore was announced late last year.

Pics courtesy of UrbanToronto and render by steveveveve:



As depicted in the skyline by steveve (in yellow):

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Reduced to 60 floors and 208 metres:

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Office Space Removed, Entertainment District Tower Bumped to 65 Storeys

A revised proposal has been submitted for the redevelopment of 277 Wellington Street West in Toronto’s Entertainment District, where a Minor Variance application seeks to modify the zoning permissions secured earlier through an Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT) settlement. Designed by Arcadis for Reserve Properties and Westdale Properties, the updated plan would increase the tower from 60 to 65 storeys, while removing replacement office space within the podium in favour of more residential units. The site is within the St Andrew Protected Major Transit Station Area.

The site occupies the southeast corner of Wellington Street West and Blue Jays Way. The property is currently developed with a nine-storey office building with a four-and-a-half-level underground garage accessed from a rear laneway. The surrounding King-Spadina area has transformed over the past decades from warehouses and surface parking into one of Downtown Toronto’s most rapidly intensifying mixed-use districts.

Under the revised plan, the redevelopment would rise 65 storeys or 220m, an increase from the 60-storey, 208m-tall building approved through the earlier OLT settlement. Floors previously designated for office use between levels three and seven would be reconfigured into residential space, increasing the number of podium residential levels from five to seven while maintaining the same podium height. The revised program would raise the total residential count from 654 units to 807 units, adding 153 homes, including 23 affordable rental units secured through a Section 45(9) agreement. The unit mix would consist of 194 studios, 372 one-bedroom units, 161 two-bedroom units, and 80 three-bedroom units. Six residential elevators would equate to approximately one for every 135 units, indicating very high-speed motors would be required for adequate response times when all elevators are in service.