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The area is quite interesting and doesn't make a bad impression, but there is a large derelict industrial site nearby and little in the way of residential and economic growth. It's the result of bad planning in the Stock Yards, where the strategy for revitalizing the area after the dominant meatpacking establishments left in the 1990s was to raze everything and build suburban-style big box stores. There were old warehouses like in Liberty Village which could have housed startups and lots of land to build a dense and walkable community. Today, it's a mess, but we have to move forward. One building nearby once housed the Canada Bread bakery but is now used for studios and a craft brewery. That's a good development, but it's just replacing an industrial operation that moved away.
 
There was a public information meeting on this tonight.

Completely new design, name may include "Upper Junction" once the marketing kicks in.

No application at the City yet, but the City has now allowed 2/3 of the site to be Mixed Use, while retaining Employment on the south end of the site, to buffer the residential in the north from heavy industry (the rubber plant) to the south.

Stanton Renaissance, with MSA, the same firm that designed On The GO Mimico for them, are proposing 4 east-west buildings.

The north three at 14, 12, and 12 storeys, are residential condos with about 460 suites amongst them, and some ground level retail.

The south building is 8 storeys, mostly offices and some workshops. It'll go up nearly entirely leased out. Mike Holmes will be moving his production company's HQs in here, as will Stanton Renaissance. A world renowned* Inuit artist will be moving his workshop in here.

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*Amongst the exhibitions of his work, Abraham Anghik Ruben has actually had a solo show at the Smithsonian in Washington, so "world renowned" is not a stretch for the circles he moves in.

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There'll be much more coming in a few months once the City has the application and issues a preliminary report.

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Not dead. The St. Clair underpass widening is subject to an EA currently in the works. This project would have one of its garage entries from a widened St. Clair eastbound just west of the underpass.

Of note, zero parking for this project would be at the surface; all vehicles would be accommodated below ground.

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interchange42 said:
Not dead. The St. Clair underpass widening is subject to an EA currently in the works. This project would have one of its garage entries from a widened St. Clair eastbound just west of the underpass.

Of note, zero parking for this project would be at the surface; all vehicles would be accommodated below ground.

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Im hoping that st clair is widened till Weston and the streetcar is extended as well.
 
This project could be amazing for the area. It looks like a huge a step forward to see dense mixed-use development where the worst urban form of big box retail used to prevail (like acres of surface parking lots and stores with blank walls along main streets). The Stock Yards could one day could be a great mixed-use neighbourhood.
 
Throw in a GO REX stop when the corridors are electrified and you've got a great node for intensification....you could have stations on this GO corridor and/or the Barrie corridor a few blocks over.
 
I am excited for this project. It is much needed in the Junction and long overdue. The Stanton website still has no renderings of these buildings and there is no info on it anywhere. Just my opinion but they could have gone higher at least in the 20 storey range, maybe even 30s... The views of the downtown are amazing if your up high in this part of the city.
 
…and the last stickied thread at top of each Projects and Construction Forum page has further instructions on that.

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Staff recommending refusal of the submission. Significant issues regarding negative effects on the adjacent viable employment uses and the potential for the development to create hazardous living conditions due to insufficient/impracticable odour mitigation from the neighboring rubber plant. The shorter height of the office building does nothing to mitigate or buffer the effects of the odour plume on upper floor residents in the higher buildings. Staff note that this site was exempted from the encouragement of redevelopment along St. Clair in the avenues studies for these and other reasons. Staff also take issue with the proposed driveway fronting onto the parkette and the lack of street edge definition in the building design.

The development is also not sufficiently set back from the rail corridor by 30m as the rail companies have reccomended for all residential building along all rail corridors. Interestingly, staff also bring up the viabiltiy of a future St. Clair GO Station should the project move forward.

The report is well worth a read before we jump to conclusions. Staff have laid out strong arguments here which the developer would be hard pressed to overcome at the OMB. As the report notes, previous efforts in 2005 at the OMB to provide for allowances for residential development of the site were denied due to the acknowledgement of the incompatibility of the related land uses.

I fully expect this to go to the OMB but all i can say is good luck to the developer.

It goes to EYCC on February 18, 2015 Report can be found here: http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2015/ey/bgrd/backgroundfile-74893.pdf
 
I am shocked this is happening again. National Rubber will do anything to prevent more residences in this area. I really hope it does get built. I feel so badly for the developer all the money they are spending on redesigning and fighting the city. The city councillors have got to be in bed with National Rubber for this not to get approved. This is unbeleivable! one factory closes and another one opens and it closes and another one opens, the area has changed and is evolving if they want the stockyards mall to survive this better be built.
 
Just because Metrolinx wants buildings to be 30m from their property line, they can't force anyone to do that in the first place.

Developers need to have warning signs posted in their sales office stating that anyone buying a property that is inside this 30m Metrolinx request are accepting the noise conditions and will not be allow to appeal the lack of noise protection or been close to the property line. Same for the smell.

All property Land Registers will contain the same warning clause so future buyers are aware of condition that exist today.

National Rubber has the right to protect itself since it been there for decades and an employment place. It want to make sure that no one come after them once they move into the area because of the smell.

Its "BUYER BE AWARE" and they need to do their homework when buying in this area. Otherwise, move on.
 
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