Toronto 2250 Kennedy Road | 158.3m | 49s | Cando Apartments | ZO1

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Pretty huge new app (1339 units in 4 towers) at Kennedy and Sheppard. Cando is the owner, Flagship is the development manager:

Flagship Development Group

Development management experts in approvals for land rezoning, official plan amendment, real estate development, plan of subdivision, planning consultant, Toronto, mixed-use, development advisory, urban planning, applications.

flagshipdev.com

 

[Northern Light]

A bit more to add to the above:

Sheppard frontage, as is, per Streetview:

Aerial view from the Planning report:

Site Plan:

Elevator Ratio - across all 4 buildings 16 elevators to 1,339 units or 1 elevator per 84 units.

Comments:

Right location for intensification, subject to Sheppard subway going ahead. However, the site organization is appallingly bad, the suburban cul de sac, along with 2 micro parks that are utterly unusable as proposed.

The site would certainly benefit from including the gas station on the corner, but likely also some/all of the SFH at the south/rear of the site.

Feels very under-baked.

Notwithstanding the above, as this is high density, residential, likely rental, and driven by MTSA considerations. @HousingNowTO is duly notified.

 

[stfeinberg]

Kennedy and Sheppard gearing up to become a major hub, which makes sense given it has both GO and a future subway planned. But is anyone else drawing strong parallels between Agincourt and Main/Danforth? Surely I'm not the only one who sees that both areas are served by subway+GO, and both locations are located in close proximity to a city owned golf course (Tam O'Shanter/Dentonia). Both neighbourhoods are also anchored by their respective community centers and are older/prime for revitalization. To extend this analogy I guess you could say East Danforth is to Toronto what Agincourt is to North York Centre.

 

[Flagship Developments]

Hi All, very nice to meet everyone!

Flagship Development Group is the manager on this file, acting on behalf of owner Cando Apartments. We're excited to help bring over 1300 new rental units, two new parks, and new retail space to the Agincourt community. One of the lesser-known but most-important elements of this file is that construction on new rental replacement will precede any demolition so that existing tenants will not have to leave the area unless it's by their choice.

If anyone has any questions, we're happy to help answer!

FDG

 

[north-of-anything]

Any way they could buy a property or two to extend Lejune Road up through the west edge of the site, instead of a tiny cul-de-sac? Then it's a short walk to Inglewood Heights Park, which could be expanded instead of the southwest micropark in the potential Lejune right-of-way.

 

[Flagship Developments]

Any way they could buy a property or two to extend Lejune Road up through the west edge of the site, instead of a tiny cul-de-sac? Then it's a short walk to Inglewood Heights Park, which could be expanded instead of the southwest micropark in the potential Lejune right-of-way.

Not possible, unfortunately. The houses on Jade Street are not for sale, and the City does not want direct connections from major streets into neighbourhoods. We are maintaining the current pedestrian connection illustrated in the plans, but putting cars through there is a nonstarter.

 

[Northern Light]

Not possible, unfortunately. The houses on Jade Street are not for sale,

That you can't fix..

and the City does not want direct connections from major streets into neighbourhoods.

Right, but depending on where you slot a N-S street within the massing, the City is proposing to take some of Jade street and homes south of your site out of 'neighbourhoods' and slot them into mixed used density.

The MTSA boundary:

I assume you thought of that; I just wanted to put it out there, because I know sometimes there's a sense from the City of treating the yellowbelt as if it's still there, and in other areas (Bayview/Sheppard, and Yonge/Eglinton) come to mind, they're willing to treat things as if the MTSA is in full effect.

 

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I don't think any new info in here but from Renx:

Flagship targets apartments for development management services

Flagship Development Group, a new full-service development manager and advisory firm, is involved with a major project and has submitted an application to the City of Toronto for Cando Apartments to develop a 1,350-unit residential rental complex in Scarborough.

renx.ca