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An appliation has been submitted proposing a mixed use development at 7161 and 7171 Yonge Street, north of Doncaster Ave in Thornhill. The applicant proposes to demolish the existing commercial buildings on the site and build two 39s and two 32s residential towers with a total of 1,380 units as well as a 10s commercial office building fronting onto Yonge St. The residential and commercial buildings fronting onto Yonge St. will include retail and service uses on ground level.
 
Yes though Hy & Zels is no more. Its Pharmacy One or something like that now.
 
Two 40s, and two 30s towers in Thornhill...

Clearly the developer wants to build three 10s towers and is aiming high so they'll have something to give during stakeholder negotiations.

Really? Does this have a shot in hell with those heights up there?
 
There's a couple of 20's or so just north of this on the other side of the rail lines. Also nobody lives close to this (mainly car dealers and warehouse style retail) so hardly anybody to complain.
 
Ok, no complainers. How about takers to live on floor 35 then?
 
You'd have a hell of a view up there, with nothing remotely nearby to block it
 
Yonge and Steeles

Finally a proposal to redevelop the nasty parking lots at Yonge and Steeles. This proposal is located in Thornhill, on the northeast corner of Yonge and Doncaster where there is currently a Wendys, gas station, and stirp mall. It would have among the tallest buildings north Eglinton if approved:

Condos: 39, 39, 32 floors (1380 units)
Office: 10 floors
Parking: 3032 required, 2410 requested

Link

A bit to the north is an unrelated project that rivals the Canadian Tire lands in size. On Yonge, also in Markham, this project south of the 407 could contain:

Condos: 28,28,28,24,24,21,18,16,16,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8 (3000 units)
Hotel: 8 floors
Office: 20 floors
link
 
That second proposal has so many buildings with 8 floors, floor counts with numbers that either have 8s in them or are multiples of 8 (lucky to the Chinese) . This must be a Chinese developer proposing this! (the linked page says the developer is called Mark Tan, a very Chinese sounding name)

However I must say that the 407/7/Yonge Street area (the so-called "Richmond Hill Centre" area according to Viva) is quite a mess. The linkage between Yonge and Hwy 7 is not direct, which is bad enough. Hwy 7 runs through this area much like a parallel expressway to 407, with no room for development on either side of it. Just off the north side of Hwy 7 are mostly big box stores. Mark Tan's proposal may sound great, but as a "city centre" the layout of the area is even worse than Scarborough Centre.
 
With all this intensification proposed on Yonge St north of Steeles, why not extend the subway to Steeles?
 
that would logically be the next step, the city subway loop looks like it might come closer to a reality
 
^They're afraid that it would push the Yonge line over capacity
 
Besides which, a loop is markedly less likely now that the Spadina line is veering off to the northwest.
 
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