[Paclo]

Application Details

www.toronto.ca

Resubmission with changes summarized in the table below

Note that the residential unit count of 407 is using knockout panels. The total without knockout panels is 451.

Additionally there have been some slight massing changes, mainly to the podium, visible in the updated renderings below:

 

[goodcitywhenfinished]

Ok this is nice

 

[Northern Light]

Application Details

www.toronto.ca

Resubmission with changes summarized in the table below
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Note that the residential unit count of 407 is using knockout panels. The total without knockout panels is 451.

Additionally there have been some slight massing changes, mainly to the podium, visible in the updated renderings below:
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IF they pull this one off, with good materials, it would be one of Arcadis best efforts. I'm afraid Toronto builders have made me a tad cynical, but I shall live in hope, LOL

 

[ProjectEnd]

Value increase. Don't get attached as it'll only ever exist on paper (especially since Metro has a staggeringly-incompetent real estate arm).

 

[artemperederii]

Uuuuuffff
Build this tomorrow

 

[The Preservationist]

Thinking about it what really bothers me about these value adding exercises, is the amount of effort put in by city planning, (and paid for by us ratepayers) with no tangible benefit back to the city. Perhaps city spent hours should be back billable if there is a title transfer prior to development?

 

[greenleaf]

Value increase. Don't get attached as it'll only ever exist on paper (especially since Metro has a staggeringly-incompetent real estate arm).

ProjectEnd, crushing hopes and dreams on UT since 2007.

 

[ProjectEnd]

ProjectEnd, crushing hopes and dreams on UT since 2007.

 

[ProjectEnd]

Thinking about it what really bothers me about these value adding exercises, is the amount of effort put in by city planning, (and paid for by us ratepayers) with no tangible benefit back to the city. Perhaps city spent hours should be back billable if there is a title transfer prior to development?

If the City didn't want to waste everyone's time, maybe they could adopt a zoning bylaw newer than 1986? The "tangible benefit" used to be the S.37 extraction, but since the introduction of CBC, that dog won't hunt any longer.

I hate the zone-n-flip cottage industry just as much anyone, but there is a reason why it exists.

 

[ushahid]

thats why he is named ProjectEnd. he ends all the hopes for a project.

 

[ImmenselyMental]

Not that it is the most reliable source, but BlogTO already has an article about this project:

Toronto supermarket would be demolished for sculptural condo tower

An evolving plan to redevelop a Metro grocery store on Toronto's Bloor Street West appears to be moving closer to reality. The Metro location at 425 …

www.blogto.com

The article says that Metro would move to the retail component of this project:

350 Bloor West | UrbanToronto

350 Bloor West, Toronto by 1, Arcadis

urbantoronto.ca

 

[Northern Light]

Not that it is the most reliable source, but BlogTO already has an article about this project:

Toronto supermarket would be demolished for sculptural condo tower

An evolving plan to redevelop a Metro grocery store on Toronto's Bloor Street West appears to be moving closer to reality. The Metro location at 425 …

www.blogto.com

The article says that Metro would move to the retail component of this project:

350 Bloor West | UrbanToronto

350 Bloor West, Toronto by 1, Arcadis

urbantoronto.ca

I missed this post.......

So, let me confirm the above as correct.

 

[Paclo]

Application Details

www.toronto.ca

Resubmission with the following stat changes:

• Total residential units increased from 452 to 472 (without knockout panels)
• Total vehicular parking decreased from 60 to 59
• Total bicycle parking increased from 507 to 530
• Minor GFA increase, minor unit mix redistribution

Additional changes related to wind mitigation, via the cover letter

• pulling the tower back from Bloor Street West by two metres, providing a total 5 metre tower stepback in two steps, 2 metres above the third floor and 3metres above the fifth floor, and a total tower setback from the north lot line of approximately 7.4 metres;
• pulling the tower back from Robert Street by one metre, providing a total 4.0metre tower stepback in two steps, 2 metres above the third floor and 2 metres above the fifth floor;

• maintaining the easterly 10.0 metre tower setback;
• extending the tower south by approximately 2.2 metres, while maintaining a20.0 metre tower setback to the south lot line;
• the resulting tower floorplate has been reduced from approximately 820 to 785square metres;
• to offset some of the density lost from the reduced floorplate and from the additional podium stepbacks along Bloor Street West and Robert Street, the rear podium has been increased in height from a maximum of 10 storeys to a maximum of 12 storeys, while maintaining the previously proposed single storey element at the south end of the building and adding a new 3-storeyelement, providing for a series of steps up to the tower;
• further wind mitigation measures includes planters along Bloor Street West within the public realm, which will direct pedestrians away from the curb edge, where wind conditions are currently predicted to be less comfortable, and closer to the building, where wind conditions are predicted to be more comfortable;

• finally, a privacy screen at the southwest corner of the building has been revised to be porous to address one remaining localized wind safety issue identified in the RWDI wind study, within Sussex Mews

Updated renderings:

 

[christiesplits]

I quite like the curves and presence at street level.

 

[Northern Light]

I quite like the curves and presence at street level.

Yes, though no trees showing on the Bloor frontage, in the render ( I'll check the plans later) but I think I would have preferred they pull the base building back by 1-2M on Bloor rather than the tower.