My own preference is for simple, clean structures that accentuate the vertical lines of a building. My first impression, then, is that I like the tower part of the proposal. I don't get much of a feel from the renders and drawings of how the podium meets the street, at this point.
 
7 YONGE is going to be the phase 1 of the project 1-7 yonge street.
It going to be located north of the Toronto star building.
So yes it's that location,but to be more precise it's on the corner between Yonge and Lake Shore blvd.
 
The first phase will be the 65-storey tower on the northwest corner of Harbour and Freeland.

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The park at the centre of that rendering is on the LCBO Lands site, and will be given to the City as a park, not as a POPS, by Menkes.

On this 1-7 Yonge site, there is a substantial public benefits agreement which includes Section 37 funds for a new community centre which is being built as part of the first phase, and I believe there's park-in-lieu cash that's tied to the LCBO Lands park too. There's also the complication of the public square which the 1 Yonge supertall will face once Lake Shore's ramp is removed in favour of the straightened Harbour Street: that public square is supposed to be paid for by Pinnacle too I believe. There's a lot that'll be going on here in the coming years, public realm-wise.

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interchange42 said:
The park at the centre of that rendering is on the LCBO Lands site, and will be given to the City as a park, not as a POPS, by Menkes.
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Thanks for the update. That's great to hear! By any chance, is there an official website I could check which details the parkland dedication?
 
Nothing yet. That dedication's quite a few years off, maybe, gulp, a decade. I believe it's part of the last phase at the LCBO.

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From the latest WT Board meeting:

Pinnacle (1 Yonge) submitted a site plan approval application earlier this year for the first three phases of residential development (i.e. the North Block). Waterfront Toronto has reviewed the application for consistency with the principles of the precinct plan and Official Plan, and has provided comments to the City for the applicant. Waterfront Toronto will work with City staff and the applicant on revisions to their application. The 1 Yonge application is going before a joint City/Waterfront Toronto Design Review Panel on October 12, 2017.
 
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