London Construction - Development News Thread #1 - Page 165

jammer139 · #**3281** Posted **Oct 18, 2024, 9:05 PM**

LFP article on the construction pipeline.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/inactive-home-build-applications-london

Report with list of developers by housing density type by number of units. Land speculators are noticeably absent from this list as they have never gone further then a zoning application.

https://pub-london.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=111931

rdaner · #**3282** Posted **Oct 20, 2024, 3:28 AM**

^Great read! Would love to see a map of where these are going. And what a change in built form!

jammer139 · #**3283** Posted **Oct 20, 2024, 6:40 PM**

Re-zoning applications going to full council this week.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/towers-to-townhouses-london-home-building-on-a-tear

Here are the proposed developments going to before politicians on Tuesday. City staff recommend all for approval:

763-773 Dundas St.: A six-storey mixed-use building with 34 residential units and about 300 square metres of commercial space fronting on Dundas in Old East Village, near Aeolian Hall. The project would also have a 24-storey mixed-use tower at the rear with 213 units and ground-floor multi-use space. There would be a total of 247 residential units, with at least 40 per cent affordable.

At 2118 Richmond St. rezoning is being sought for an 11-storey residential apartment building with 158 units. This proposal is an increase of 51 units from a previously approved development. It removes a previous requirement for three-storey townhouses on the site, north of Sunningdale Road. The building would have a three-storey base and an eight-storey tower.

At 313-323 Horton St. E., the builder wants rezoning for a proposed eight-storey mixed-use apartment building with 107 residential units and 179 square metres of ground floor commercial space. It would be on the south side of Horton Street between Wellington and Waterloo streets.

A proposed apartment tower at 1856-1910 Oxford St. W. near Westdel Bourne would be a mixed-use apartment building with two towers, 10- and 11-storeys high with 223 residential units and a maximum of 850 square metres of ground floor commercial space.

At 279 Sarnia Rd., a three-storey, 20-unit back-to-back stacked townhouse development built on the north side of Sarnia Road between Kininvie Drive and Brescia Lane. The site now has a single-storey single-detached dwelling.

At 1210-1240 Wharncliffe Rd., the recommended action will permit a 3.5-storey, 108-unit stacked townhouse development with a maximum height of 12 metres. It’ll be located south of Southdale Road, near Bradley Avenue.

566, 568, 572 and 578 Colborne Street: Two three-storey stacked townhouse buildings would be added to the rear of existing buildings at 572 and 578 Colborne Street and existing homes would also have more units added. In total, there would be an increase of 12 residential units between the two buildings, for a total of 18 units on the site, just south of Central Avenue.

jammer139 · #**3284** Posted **Oct 23, 2024, 1:47 PM**

A Rezoning Application is not a Detailed Site Plan Application which is not a Building Permit Application.

There are many rezoning applications of properties by land speculators who have no intention of ever submitting a Detailed Site Plan Application followed by a Building Permit Application in order to get a shovel in the ground. In some cases it might be years before a approved building permit results in a shovel in the ground.

The city should be more clear in identifying the numbers when they mention them by the types. It's easy to confuse folks into thinking the number of units is much larger than they actually are depending on which category they refer to.

https://london.ctvnews.ca/city-of-london...-000-residential-units-by-2031-1.7083547

jammer139 · #**3285** Posted **Oct 23, 2024, 6:23 PM**

400 new homes take the next step in booming Strathroy.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/sout...ns-rapid-growth-sparks-400-home-proposal

jammer139 · #**3286** Posted **Oct 24, 2024, 12:32 PM**

Slow uptake on City incentive program to convert offices to residential.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/eigh...l-cash-to-turn-core-offices-into-housing

jammer139 · #**3287** Posted **Oct 30, 2024, 9:23 PM**

Alot of heavy equipment doing site prep for the new Sifton sub division in Dorchester just south of the Shoppers Drug Mart.

https://sifton.com/neighbourhood/hawthorne-park/

Should be seeing the masonry contractor soon on the new McDonalds being built here as well.

jammer139 · #**3288** Posted **Nov 8, 2024, 9:14 PM**

LFP article on home construction and future population growth.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/sign-up-for-lfps-newest-newsletter-homes-in-london

jammer139 · #**3289** Posted **Nov 9, 2024, 8:45 PM**

Demolition permit request for 93 King St.

This might be a York Development property and part of a proposal they have for a future high rise building.

https://pub-london.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=112447

MolsonExport · #**3290** Posted **Nov 9, 2024, 10:06 PM**

Farhi must be stopped.

London’s landlord: How one developer landed at the centre of a fight over the Southwestern Ontario city’s core

Quote:

Farhi Holdings owns most of the empty space in the city’s downtown, which has the highest commercial real estate vacancy rate in Canada. The company says it has big plans*, but patience in the community is wearing thin, Irene Galea and Chris Hannay report

*what a crock of shit. If I had a for nickel every time Farhi et al. said something like this, I'd be able to buy more property than Farhi owns.

GreatTallNorth2 · #**3291** Posted **Nov 10, 2024, 12:41 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by jammer139

Demolition permit request for 93 King St.

This might be a York Development property and part of a proposal they have for a future high rise building.

https://pub-london.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=112447

I believe they have plans for that spot as can be seen on Zedd's site:

https://www.zeddarchitecture.com/18-035

Djeffery · #**3292** Posted **Nov 10, 2024, 1:17 AM**

And as also mentioned in another thread from 7 years ago that jammer just bumped up today. Interesting to see some of the comments from back then and compare to the reality of today, especially in regards to York and their lack of any residential development prior to then.

MolsonExport · #**3293** Posted **Nov 11, 2024, 1:53 PM**

https://www.zeddarchitecture.com/18-035

What the hell is going on here? Where did that looming (with completely out of scale proportions) late 70's-style building on the left, behind Covent Garden Market, come from?

Don't get me started on the puke green and yellow balconies and architectural highlights of that Zedd Architecture Lego building on the right.

ssiguy · #**3294** Posted **Nov 11, 2024, 9:13 PM**

While I don't like the yellow balconies, those could be changed for no monetary cost.

What is exciting about this potential development is that it will have no parking and will be geared to students and working class individuals. This will make the building far faster to build and cost less as parking costs a fortune and takes a long time to build.

Younger people are what the core needs as they are far more likely to visit those coffee shops, restaurants, and bars that give the downtown it's vitality.

jammer139 · #**3295** Posted **Nov 17, 2024, 4:32 PM**

The new No Frills grocery store in Dorchester just behind the new McDonalds now has signs up for Opening soon. Exterior appears to be finished so must be final stages of interior work. The new McDonalds is still waiting on the exterior brick installation.

CanadianTalk · #**3296** Posted **Nov 17, 2024, 6:54 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by jammer139

The new No Frills grocery store in Dorchester just behind the new McDonalds now has signs up for Opening soon. Exterior appears to be finished so must be final stages of interior work. The new McDonalds is still waiting on the exterior brick installation.

Wow, I didn't even know there was all that new commercial growth in the south end other than the Shoppers that's been there for a while..... haven't been in that part of town in years.

And on that note, that's 5 new McDonalds that have either opened within the last year or will be opening soon in the London area (Dorchester, Lucan, Wharncliffe/Legendary, Highbury/Fanshawe, Sunningdale/Richmond)

haljackey · #**3297** Posted **Nov 18, 2024, 1:44 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by CanadianTalk

And on that note, that's 5 new McDonalds that have either opened within the last year or will be opening soon in the London area (Dorchester, Lucan, Wharncliffe/Legendary, Highbury/Fanshawe, Sunningdale/Richmond)

I guess people still have big cravings for McDerps, despite complaints of constant price increases.

Personally I think A&W does pretty much everything better, with the exception of their coffee. Prices are compatible as well, and a lot of those have been going up recently throughout town as well.

MolsonExport · #**3298** Posted **Nov 18, 2024, 5:51 PM**

Hands down the worst McShitties is that found in the Walmart of Hyde Park.

Disgusting place. Always filthy.

Djeffery · #**3299** Posted **Nov 19, 2024, 9:42 PM**

Delivered some equipment to the Dorchester MCDonalds today, asked the site super when they hoped to open, he said "last week". So I imagine they are under the gun to get this up and running. The No Frills from the quick peak in the windows is still a long ways off. By comparison, I was in the T&T a few weeks before it opened and it looked like it could open at any time when I was in there. It might open by Christmas, but I doubt it.

MolsonExport · #**3300** Posted **Nov 20, 2024, 2:22 PM**

Mona Farms Market is about to open on Hyde Park Road, adjacent to the erstwhile Memory Lane Antique Shop.

It looks to be about 3/4 the size of a typical Farm Boy, and peering into the window, it appears that it will cater to the very large Muslim population that has established itself in the Hyde Park neighborhood over the past decade.

As projected:

Amazingly, a "No Frills" is slated for the former Memory Lane site. That would be 3 grocery-store-ish places in the same plaza (No Frills, Mona Farms, Giant Tiger).

https://www.westdellcorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Hyde-Park-Square-Site-Plan-1.pdf

^the "No Frills" must be some sort of new concept store, as it has only 12,000 sq. feet (which is about half the size of the nearby Giant Tiger).