Legacy Village by Old Oak - London Psychiatric Hospital Lands Redevelopment

[jammer139]

Council approves sub-division zoning plan for this new neighbourhood.

Hopefully we see the start of the site prep work soon as there is alot of work ahead to install all the new sewers and utility services.

https://london.ctvnews.ca/biggest-projec...mer-psychiatric-hospital-lands-1.7074889

[tyeman200]

Does anyone know what Old Oak is doing with the 4 old buildings?

2 of them have had fires, and the admin building is very unstable.. are they going to start fixing them or get rid of them? Haven't heard much of it.

[Djeffery]

Originally Posted by tyeman200

Does anyone know what Old Oak is doing with the 4 old buildings?

2 of them have had fires, and the admin building is very unstable.. are they going to start fixing them or get rid of them? Haven't heard much of it.

Officially they have some unnamed (as far as I know) plans for those buildings. Unofficially, they probably hope the next fire is more indepth or a tornado goes through or something.

[Djeffery]

A couple dozers were out ripping up the grass and spreading the dirt around, close to the Highbury and Oxford intersection. Might just be that it's easier than cutting the grass every month or so lol.

[jammer139]

Site prep for this sub-division is going to be a big job likely taking at least a couple of years as they need to grade and install a lot of underground sewers, utilities and build a SWM pond in the SE corner with the tie into Pottersburg Creek. A lot of civil engineering work to get the site ready to start building the new roads and above ground infrastructure for the first buildings. If they are starting this year they might be done just as the BRT work wraps up on Oxford and Highbury in 2027.

[CanadianTalk]

A site-plan application has been filed for 3 apartment buildings, presumably the ones right at the corner of Highbury and Oxford

Originally Posted by CanadianTalk

Note from the report: The application has been revised since the renderings were prepared to request a maximum height of 32 storeys and 1,571 units on Block 16 (where 22 storeys, and 817 units would have been permitted through the previous application). No new renderings have been provided to date.

[jammer139]

Work has started installing the sewers into the subdivision where the 3 towers on the SE corner of Oxford and Highbury labeled block 45. The map showing street "F" above is currently getting sewers installed and will provide an entrance off Oxford St.

There appears to be three soil testing drilling rigs working the corner of this property. They may also be installing de-watering pipes.

I wonder if Old Oaks has already received permits for the subdivision utility installation in this block 45 of the site?

[CanadianTalk]

A building permit (for the foundation) has been filed for the first building. This is marked as Tower 1 on the site-plan in my previous post. It will be right at the corner of Highbury and Oxford, and it will be 32 stories.

[jammer139]

HCM has brought in a caisson piling drilling rig and they have started drilling for the excavation for the foundation of the corner building. Still have the smaller rigs which are drilling and installing what appears to be dewatering pipes.

[jammer139]

Official groundbreaking today. Pilings being installed along the Oxford street side of the corner for the first tower which is planned to be 32s and completed in 4 years.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/london/article/a-...ntatives-break-ground-on-legacy-village/

[GreatTallNorth2]

This looks like an updated picture of the 32 floor building:

[jammer139]

LFP article

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/work...e-heres-how-it-could-reshape-east-london


Interesting the drilling rigs that have been on the site for months are for geothermal heating and cooling.

Geosource Geoexchange Solutions positions a remotely piloted device at the construction site for the Old Oak project at Highbury Avenue and Oxford Street in London on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. The housing development will use geothermal energy to heat water in winter and cool buildings in summer. Officials say drilling reaches 850 feet to access temperatures around 11 C, reducing energy needed to warm water from the Great Lakes.

[jammer139]

They have started excavating the pit for the first building right on the corner of Oxford and Highbury. About 3m deep now up against the pilings. Not sure if they plan to have 2 levels of underground parking or only one. Would suspect for a 32s building they might have 2 levels of underground parking and foundation footings below that.

[MolsonExport]

35 stories is going to radically change the look of that part of town. For the better, too.

[MolsonExport]

Oxbury Mall, 1974:


This is how I remember it:

[jammer139]

The piling drilling rig has been removed from the site. Looks like pilings were only drilled along the Oxford St north side and the corner with Highbury leaving the rest of the pit open. Might mean they will only have one underground level resting on a floating raft slab foundation footing. A couple of more months will tell if this building will have a single underground level or two.

[CanadianTalk]

Here is a higher-quality version of the updated renderings for the first building currently under construction.

And just a reminder that this will be right at the corner of Highbury and Oxford, and it will be 32 stories.

[GreatTallNorth2]

Uggg

[jammer139]

Good find tracking down these renders. Will be the tallest buildings east of Waterloo St when completed.

[jammer139]

Large mobile crane onsite today as they may be prepping to setup a tower crane for building one on the corner.