161 Bonaventure Drive - 8s (Approved)

CanadianTalk · #1 Posted **Dec 20, 2022, 10:05 PM**

An 8s apartment building (containing 125 units with 157 parking spaces) is proposed in Argyle at the southwest corner of Dundas St and Bonaventure Dr.

Bonaventure is a neighbourhood street that continues from Industrial Road south of Dundas, just west of Veterans Memorial Parkway.

Currently this land is vacant, and has quite an interesting irregular shape.

Notice of application: https://london.ca/sites/default/files/20...20161%20Bonaventure%20Drive%20Z-9574.pdf

Application page: https://london.ca/business-development/p...nning-applications/161-bonaventure-drive

ssiguy · #2 Posted **Dec 20, 2022, 10:59 PM**

I thought the entire VMP strip was strictly commercial/industrial?

Djeffery · #3 Posted **Dec 21, 2022, 12:25 AM**

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Originally Posted by ssiguy

I thought the entire VMP strip was strictly commercial/industrial?

It's not on VMP, it's on Bonaventure, opposite of the Peavey Mart (TSC store) and before the trailer park.

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0081403,-81.1596388,658m/data=!3m1!1e3

MolsonExport · #4 Posted **Dec 21, 2022, 5:16 PM**

Pretty decent looking infill for that neighborhood. I never knew that there was a trailer park in that area.

Djeffery · #5 Posted **Dec 21, 2022, 11:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Pretty decent looking infill for that neighborhood. I never knew that there was a trailer park in that area.

Mobile homes, right across from the old strip club. I used to live on Carlyle Dr 40 years ago (can't be that long ago really, 40 years ago was the 1950's lol), and the trailer park seemed much bigger back then. This was before Bonaventure was built and it was just a T intersection with Dundas and Industrial. Not a classy trailer park like the one on Springbank though lol.

MolsonExport · #6 Posted **Dec 21, 2022, 11:28 PM**

So that's were Famous Flesh Gordon's was. I didn't realize that area was developed that long ago. Yeah, 40 years ago used to mean the 1940s or the 1950s, but alas it now means the early 1980s

I started high school in 1982, graduated in 1987. Dammit.

jammer139 · #7 Posted **Dec 29, 2022, 7:01 PM**

LFP article on proposal.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/new-...t-end-just-a-start-deputy-mayor-predicts

Djeffery · #8 Posted **Dec 29, 2022, 10:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

So that's were Famous Flesh Gordon's was. I didn't realize that area was developed that long ago. Yeah, 40 years ago used to mean the 1940s or the 1950s, but alas it now means the early 1980s

I started high school in 1982, graduated in 1987. Dammit.

When I lived over there, the local variety store was in that plaza, Lynn's Bakery was called Buns Master, and Flesh Gordon's was still a restaurant named the El Greco that I celebrated my 14th birthday at (and they let me have a glass of wine lol). Copp's Lumber was Airport Datsun and the now closed bowling alley was the Roller Palace roller skating rink that I spent my weekends at as a teen.

MolsonExport · #9 Posted **Dec 30, 2022, 4:58 PM**

^we may be nearly the same age (with references to Roller palaces, etc....there was one in my neighbourhood (West Island of Montreal) in the late 70s, that was extremely popular for about 3 years before the bottom fell out. The eighties changed the entire cultural scene: disco was swept away like a fart in the wind; fashion changed immeasurably (though not really for the better), brutalism was out and PoMo was in; mullets, ....

I can really connect to those High School movies of the 1980s (like Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Fast Times at Ridgemont High...they depict high school life as it was for me [1982-1987]).

Djeffery · #10 Posted **Dec 30, 2022, 9:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

^we may be nearly the same age (with references to Roller palaces, etc....there was one in my neighbourhood (West Island of Montreal) in the late 70s, that was extremely popular for about 3 years before the bottom fell out. The eighties changed the entire cultural scene: disco was swept away like a fart in the wind; fashion changed immeasurably (though not really for the better), brutalism was out and PoMo was in; mullets, ....

I can really connect to those High School movies of the 1980s (like Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Fast Times at Ridgemont High...they depict high school life as it was for me [1982-1987]).

I believe from past threads that we are almost exactly the same age. I turn 54 in a couple months.

CanadianTalk · #11 Posted **Jan 1, 2023, 12:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by jammer139

LFP article on proposal.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/new-...t-end-just-a-start-deputy-mayor-predicts

Nice to see a ward councillor finally say good things about an infill project in their own ward. It seems like for most (not all) articles on infill apartment buildings, there is always a paragraph in there from the ward councillor saying stuff like the "oh the building is not a good fit", will cause "shadows", "traffic", etc.

All in all I do think this is a good infill proposal. It uses a piece of vacant land within the city, and it is off of Dundas which is a transit route, and it's close to various shops, and not far from the Argyle shopping plaza.

CanadianTalk · #12 Posted **Mar 22, 2023, 2:26 PM**

City staff is recommending that Council approve the zoning change. Goes to planning committee on March 27th.

https://london.ca/sites/default/files/20...nture%20Drive%20Z-9574%20%20%28OA%29.pdf

CanadianTalk · #13 Posted **Mar 28, 2023, 2:13 PM**

Planning committee unanimously approved the zoning change. Goes to full council on April 4th.

CanadianTalk · #14 Posted **Apr 14, 2023, 12:11 AM**

Council unanimously approved the zoning change.

jammer139 · #15 Posted **Jun 28, 2026, 4:43 PM**

Noticed this property has a large Colliers For Sale sign with caption of residential opportunity. The 8s apartment building proposal will have to wait for a new owner to buy land.