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Urban Toronto Forum
42m ago
This one flew under the radar.
A four-building purpose built rental complex, with 444 residential units and some streetfront retail units, located immediately south of Mount Pleasant GO Station. The tower will be 26 stories, with a second, six-storey midrise slab, and two three-storey rows of stacked townhouses.
This is a very promising TOD project.
Construction is already well underway with a tower crane rising overhead ..read more
Urban Toronto Forum
2h ago
Here is a presentation outlining this proposal for Woodbine and 16th:
http://www.markham.ca/markham/ccbs/indexfile/Agendas/2008/Development Services/pl080325/woodbine.PDF
The entire development will be 838,267 sq. ft. and it's interesting in that it includes an enclosed shopping centre ..read more
Urban Toronto Forum
2h ago
6835 Main Street: a proposed 3-storey condo-townhouse and 3 & 3-storey freehold semi-detached dwellings designed by Wang Architects for Elite Class Developments on the southwest corner of Main Street and Eastern Gate Crescent in Eastern Stouffville ..read more
Urban Toronto Forum
3h ago
5964 Main Street: a proposed 18-storey mixed-use condominium & retail building designed by TAES Architect for Hyson Properties on the northwest corner of Main Street and Ninth Line in Downtown Stouffville.
Rendering and site plan from the Council Report of February 2023 ..read more
Urban Toronto Forum
6h ago
A demolition application has been submitted for the former First Hungarian Presbyterian Church at 439 Vaughan Road, which is about 5 blocks south/east of Oakwood.
The letter attached in the application document indicates they're planning to build low-rise detached and semi-detached housing, which is expected to start in Spring 2021.
Non-Residential Demolition Application - 439 Vaughan Road
Agenda Item History - 2021.TE22.9
Currently...
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Urban Toronto Forum
8h ago
Application Details
www.toronto.ca
565 Kennedy Road: a proposed 9-storey mixed-use condominium & retail building designed by Studio JCI for 2833307 Ontario Inc on the northeast corner of Kennedy Road and Summer Drive, in Toronto's Kennedy Park neighbourhood ..read more
Urban Toronto Forum
21h ago
From CoStar:
Exclusive: Times Group Pays $122 Million for Yonge St. Redevelopment Site
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CoStar News can report that Times 5800 Inc., an affiliate of Times Group, bought the development site at 5800 Yonge St. from Toronto-Hydro Electric System Ltd., in a deal tied to the 1.25 million square feet of potential density.
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Street View ..read more
Urban Toronto Forum
23h ago
The Crawford Urban Towns - A under construction 9 x 3/4-Storey 254 units of urban townhouses with a crane up designed by SRN Architects for Fernbrook homes located on 8175 Britannia Rd in Milton's Boyne
Photo from google maps from two months ago ..read more
Urban Toronto Forum
1d ago
Bousfields has registered to lobby the City of Toronto in respect of a mixed use development at this site, on behalf of Stafford Homes.
This site is north of St. Clair Avenue west, just west of Spadina
Streetview:
Aerial Pic:
Site Size: ~2400m2/26000ft2
Comments:
Site is currently a nursing home/long-term care facility. Bed replacement certainly needs to be assured.
Height Precedent 24s directly across the street. 30s one street to the west...
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Urban Toronto Forum
1d ago
Building was listed for sale recently: Avison Young Brochure - 141 Erskine - July 2020
Notably, two development intensification scenarios were studied:
Kinda hope that whomever purchases it goes with Scenario II with the townhomes, as the existing building is a great example of mid-century expressionist architecture and was designed by Uno Prii. See UT article here: https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2016/03/photo-day-uno-priis-americana ..read more