Barrie 34-50 Bradford Street | 101.4m | 29s | HIP Developments | Martin Simmons

[Undead]

N.B. I'll be posting a bunch of recent development applications in Barrie. Generally, I'll only be including proposals that have had some activity in the last 2-3 years. There are a few more proposals that seem to have stalled years ago, so my posts today aren't exhaustive. But it's clear development is on fire in Barrie--another place flying relatively under the radar like KW and Hamilton. Apologies if any of these proposals have already been posted and please merge the threads.

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Application: https://www.barrie.ca/City Hall/Pla...rrie-Central-Collegiate-Red-Storey-Field.aspx

Type of Application	Date Application Received / Deemed Complete	Status
Zoning By-law Amendment	July 31, 2019	Complete
Site Plan Control	TBD	Application Pending

"A mixed-use development comprised of three residential towers (20 storeys - Building 1; 20 storeys - Building 2; and, 10 storeys - Building 3) with a total of 600 residential units. The proposed development also includes a YMCA community facility and private urban parkette."

Arch plans:

Streetview:

 

[Bjays92]

Ohh boy. HIP... this is gonna be a disaster. I feel sorry for Barrie with this one.

 

[interchange42]

So a pile of units will just stare into an aboveground garage? Bad idea.

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[Undead]

Site prep underway, but unsure if the Dufferin work is part of this site. Today:

 

[Undead]

Revised Proposal Submitted (Jan. 2022)​

34 - 50 Bradford Street. Two (2) residential apartment buildings with shared 6 storey podium (119 units). Tower 1- 29 storeys (276 units), Tower 2- 25 storeys (228 units).

New renders:

 

[AlbertC]

HIP project at Barrie Central site beginning to take shape

'We’ve since come back (with) a much more intense development,' HIP official says at public meeting

www.barrietoday.com

A public meeting was held Tuesday evening for new residential development plans on the former Barrie Central Collegiate property. HIP, or Barrie Central Developments, wants to rezone 34-50 Bradford St., to build 630 residential units on the seven-acre site.

“We’ve been at this site for a while… (and) we had a proposal come forward a few years ago. We’ve since come back (with) a much more intense development,” said Joel Doherty, HIP’s vice-president of real estate and development.

“We feel that this is a key downtown site. It’s large (and) has great potential,” said Trevor Hawkins of MHBC Planning, also speaking for HIP.

The project would include developing a two-tower residential apartment building with a shared five-storey podium. The podium would have 110 units, one 30-storey tower would have 284 units and the other tower of 26 storeys would have 236 units. There would be ground-floor commercial space and a parkette in what remains of Prince of Wales school.

Special variances requested include an increase in building height and reduction in parking to 0.78 parking spaces per unit, from 1:1, on the property, located on the west side of Bradford Street, south of Dunlop Street and east of the Eccles Street South and Perry Street intersection. The development would be built in phases, with what’s being proposed now as the first phase.

 

[Bjays92]

HIP project at Barrie Central site beginning to take shape

'We’ve since come back (with) a much more intense development,' HIP official says at public meeting

www.barrietoday.com

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Knew the render before this one was too good to be true. The other day someone pointed out that virtually all HIP projects are the same and yet again that is proving to be the case. Grey concrete box with glass balconies.

The balcony patterns have slight variations project to project but overall they just end up looking like a great big concrete slab in the sky. This is no exception.

 

[sonellecrawford]

34-50 Bradford Street: a 29 & 25-storey residential apartment and mixed-used development designed by Martin Simmons Architects for HIP Developments on the west side of Bradford Street, south of Dunlop Street West in the City Centre neighbourhood of Barrie.

 

[lenaitch]

Is that where Barrie Central HS used to be (and the Prince of Wales PS still is - I think)?

 

[ben.thebean1]