Canadian City Proposals

[Gresto]

Originally Posted by Maldive

Site demolition was complete in October (below) and site-shoring now started (no pics).

They should have gone ahead and demolished all that NY Towers schlock while they had the equipment in the area.

[Hali87]

Tentative Phase 1 of the Mumford redevelopment (West End Mall lands + Mumford Terminal), across the street from Halifax Shopping Centre. This moves the existing terminal underground, and replaces about 5 big box/strip mall retail units and their surface parking. The surrounding area already has a lot of mid-to-highrise apartments. This is part of the vague borderlands between the Peninsula's West End and the Mainland neighbourhoods to the west of that. Halifax Shopping Centre and Mic Mac Mall (previous page) are the two main "large-scale" malls in HRM and are both major transit hubs. HSC also anchors a secondary office district with several financial companies having large offices in that area, along with CGI, CBC, and the Chronicle Herald. Many of the units (above the ~5th floor) would have excellent views of the Northwest Arm and surrounding hills; some of the uppermost units facing the other direction might have distant views of the Harbour.

The site abuts an existing CN corridor and is a logical place for a commuter rail station, if such a service were ever to be (re)-introduced. (There have been tentative plans for this, possibly in partnership with VIA, but CN and HRM hate each other, and talks stalled)

This makes up about 2/5 of the redevelopment plans for that whole site, which doesn't include HSC itself. 5560 residential units are projected for the entire site, plus commercial space.






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[Maldive]

25 St Mary | 194.9m | 59s | Tenblock | gh3 l pre-construction

In a new submission asking for re-zoning and site plan approval, the east tower has grown 10 metres to 189.5m and west tower has grown 5 metres to 199.5m (just shy of the 200m benchmark ;-).

Most interestingly, parking has been all but eliminated from 367 spaces down to 22 spaces for visitors, daycare and ride-share vehicles.

Slightly shorter (earlier) version of the towers.


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250 King East | 139.5m | 43s | Emblem Developments | IBI Group l Approved

After a settlement at the OLT, this condo and retail project is having its ‘holding provision’ lifted (needed an updated Functional Servicing Report) so approval will allow it to move forward.


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[WhipperSnapper]

369 parking spaces is a lot. 22 parking spaces for 1300 units is not enough. Neither is an average of 1 bike per unit. If built, these towers should stand past year 2100. Whatever. I'm not aware of Tenblock having broken ground on anything yet. They are in the process of repositioning many older properties with intense- fication.


I don't put much stock in approved or proposed. Nevertheless, it's an interesting map. There's a lot approved. Of course, approved on the map also includes under construction and I don't know one from the other. Could be more under construction will less approved.

[TorontoDrew]

250 King St East makes me mad, it's way too tall for the area, and also Old Town will be losing one of it's bets bars that have been around since the 90's, Betty's. that bar has so much Character.


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[koops65]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

250 King St East makes me mad, it's way too tall for the area, and also Old Town will be losing one of it's bets bars that have been around since the 90's, Betty's. that bar has so much Character.

There are a dozen other tall buildings proposed in the area nearby... some are even taller.

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[TorontoDrew]

I remember going to George Brown and Betty's was the only place we could go for lunch nearby or Stonecutters for a beer. The area was dead back then. The heights along this section of King should have been kept lower, with setbacks after the 4th or 5th floors from the street. Much more of a setback then in that design. At least it's black and not blue.

[GeneralLea]

While I agree it's a bit tall, the area is really changing (intensification of the Distillery District and other projects along Jarvis and Church, No Frils lot next to G&M, etc) and will continue to as we get closer to seeing the Ontario Line under construction and someday actively running underground nearby.

I forgot this is this far east, but the height doesn't bother me now that I realize the gigantic Time and Space complex is nearby. And well, the Corktown subway stop will be a 5-10 minute walk away...of course, hopefully in ten years.

It still sucks to see older established businesses have to shutter.

[Maldive]

396 Church | ?m | 43s | Podium | IBI Group l pre-construction

Rezoning application just submitted for this one on Church Street a couple of blocks south of Carlton. 463 residential units that will be targeting Metropolitan University students, particularly since the school canceled the Henning Larsen student residential tower (ill-timed and confounding).


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954 Broadview (Estonian House Redevelopment) | 50.5m | 14s | Diamond Kilmer | Graziani + Corazza l pre-construction

This ain't great but suffice to say I've seen much worse from G + C.


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[Tone]

Îlot Sainte-Agnès à Rimouski - Demolition rig just arrived and the site is being fenced off today!

[Maldive]

2180 Yonge | ?m | 65s | Oxford Properties | Hariri Pontarini Architects l masterplan (revised)

A vastly-improved masterplan was presented recently, now led just by Hariri Pontarini Architects (HPA). Pelli Clarke Pelli are out.

A much larger park is located on the western part of the site (lots of sunlight away from the towers), an urban plaza on Yonge with mid-block connections through the site (appropriately named “Canada Square”),
a large community-use footprint (possible school), an atrium/canopy between towers (reminicent of ’The Well’) and retention of the handsome office tower at 2200 Yonge.

A “Yonge Eglinton Plaza” has been incorporated at the north-east corner to improve access to both the TTC and the site itself, along with better mixes of office, residential and retail through out.

The retained 2200 Yonge office building is on the right below.


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Architectural placeholders for the towers (65, 65, 60, 55 and 45 storeys).


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Siteplan


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Yonge and Eglinton Future Model featuring the 2180 Yonge development in gold.


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[yaletown_fella]

Re: East Harbour

Have any major tenants been announced ?

With Shopify recently pulling out of The Well in Toronto , I dont see many companies upsizing and paying for more office floor space in this bear market tightening cycle.

I could see the developer going back to the drawing board and applying for rezoning or trying to sell off this hot potato as quickly as possible.

[rbt]

Originally Posted by yaletown_fella

Re: East Harbour

Have any major tenants been announced ?

No. Oxford seems to be setting up a number of different locations to be in a construction ready state. The Hub, Union Park, Yorkdale Mall, and Canada Square (this one) are all large projects with large office components looking for tenants.

They've also have an in-progress application for Scarborough Town Centre too but it's rental IIRC.

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by GeneralLeeTPHLS

While I agree it's a bit tall, the area is really changing (intensification of the Distillery District and other projects along Jarvis and Church, No Frils lot next to G&M, etc) and will continue to as we get closer to seeing the Ontario Line under construction and someday actively running underground nearby.

I forgot this is this far east, but the height doesn't bother me now that I realize the gigantic Time and Space complex is nearby. And well, the Corktown subway stop will be a 5-10 minute walk away...of course, hopefully in ten years.

It still sucks to see older established businesses have to shutter.

Yeah, the directional shift from intensification to block busting for giant tower projects has already occurred. The large and tall Globe and Mail tower set the stage. It still shouldn't end up a giant vertical subdivision where people have to jump on a train and travel kilometres to have fun.

[WhipperSnapper]

160 Front is the final piece of the Simcoe Place masterplan developed in 1989. I expect these pension funded backed developer will be more aggressive given that land isn't as cheap as it was in the past. Still, I'd call these long term visions. 10 years passing is a blip. You can sell or rent residential. Is it a good, profitable time to develop residential?

[GeneralLea]

I like what's been changed in the 2180 Yonge masterplan. A larger park, and retaining one of the existing office towers here is a good start. I'd prefer seeing a full office building on Eglinton and Duplex, but I can see it being much easier to sell a project as mixed use, especially in this area and economic climate.


Like various downtown office projects in the proposal mill, I don't see this masterplan going ahead for a while. There's different reasons of course, but I figure this will take some time to figure out the planning of the subdivision here. This is not unlike the Well, but aslightly smaller space in a (arguably) denser area.

[Maldive]

510 Yonge | 196.9m | 59s | KingSett Capital | BDP Quadrangle l pre-construction

As reported quite a while back, City Planning was determined to kill one of my fav proposals because it was angled off-grid (not parallel to Yonge). The original design also had an elegantly stepped roof.

The new application has nixed the off-grid/angled tower and towed the Planning party line. The good news is it will still infuse some much needed colour along Yonge and the retail/at grade stuff still looks great.


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[yaletown_fella]

Looks reasonable to me . It emphasizes the hard edge of Yonge. The brown scalloped brick veneer could turn out pretty nice. No awkward gap toothed sections either.

[O-tacular]

Do my eyes deceive me or is that a condo podium incorporating an actual historic building beyond the facade?

[TorontoDrew]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Do my eyes deceive me or is that a condo podium incorporating an actual historic building beyond the facade?

There are plenty examples of that already and many along or near Yonge. It doesn't look much different then most other fecade jobs in the city.