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I'm probably the most pro-development member on this forum, but I can understand the city planners' dilemma with this case. The proposal vastly exceeds anything the city could ever have been envisioned on this site. It changes the land-use and character of the strip while resulting in the...

Great update, thanks. I'm pleasantly surprised that the York Quay folks didn't try to shoot this one down in its entirety. Traffic concerns are legitimize given the magnitude of this development, and I'm even more surprised that they were satisfied by the answers given by the transportation...

^An excellent evil villain lair for the next Bond movie.

This looks fantastic! I love these midrise infill developments along the Avenues. Keep it coming, Toronto.

The office tower isn't going anywhere. I was unable to find the occupancy rate for 2 Bloor West, but Oxford's office portfolio occupancy rate as a whole is 93 percent for 2012. I can't see how it would make economic or political sense to demolish it as Oxford would lose a steady income stream...

kweku, I could not agree more. I'm not a fan of the final version. The one you posted looks really good. Although the design& architecture gurus of ET will probably disagree.

Toronto has employment lands in their zoning. Of course more jobs are needed but it's a fallacy that zoning lands for employment will bring jobs (Scarborough Centre has been waiting a long, long time). Let's say demand for office space in Toronto grew at 1 million sqft a year. I have no...

Thanks for posting! I like these buildings, and I hope they serve as a catalyst for future high quality, midrise developments along that stretch of Kingston Rd. God knows that area needs all the help it can get!

I'll be the first to admit that I don't know much about design, but I too am enjoying this discussion on the atchtectural merits of the existing warehouses and the proposed towers.

Nice infill and the yellow brick looks half decent. A positive for the area.

If these towers are truncated by 30 stories, is it still worth the loss of the heritage buildings?

No condos

;) Why is 157 metres the chosen number anyway? (The current height limit for the site is 30 metres.)

The plan will likely be modified from the 45 and 54 storey tower proposals to a single tower to free up land for a park. KWT has this one right! It balances the needs of the community with the rights of the developer.

That may be CF's next move so they can count it as a 'concession' in the approval process. It's like a developer that wants to build at 50 storey tower, so 60 is proposed and 10 is cut off, while someone somewhere pats themselves on the back.

67.9 FSI?!? Whoa! As for parking, the site sits directly above a subway station and there are a couple public parking garages nearby in the area. I understand they had to say what they did because current zoning requires parking but I hope city council or the OMB uses this development as a...