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470 WILSON AVE
Ward 10 - North York District

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The site includes 470, 490 and 530 Wilson Avenue. It is presently occupied by a four-storey commercial building and two four-storey residential rental buildings that contain a total of 110 rental units. The Owner is seeking a site-specific rezoning to allow a 13-storey condominium building (353 units), a 12-storey rental apartment building (158 units) with rental replacement units and two (2) stacked townhouse buildings (112 units). The condominium and apartment buildings will front on to Wilson Avenue, while the townhouses are located on the north portion of the property. The condominium and apartment buildings will include retail space at grade, along Wilson Avenue. The proposed redevelopment also includes three levels of underground parking with a total of 564 spaces.

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Applications:
Type Number Date Submitted Status
Rezoning 16 270444 NNY 10 OZ Dec 23, 2016 Under Review

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[ADRM]

470 WILSON AVE
Ward 10 - North York District

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The site includes 470, 490 and 530 Wilson Avenue. It is presently occupied by a four-storey commercial building and two four-storey residential rental buildings that contain a total of 110 rental units. The Owner is seeking a site-specific rezoning to allow a 13-storey condominium building (353 units), a 12-storey rental apartment building (158 units) with rental replacement units and two (2) stacked townhouse buildings (112 units). The condominium and apartment buildings will front on to Wilson Avenue, while the townhouses are located on the north portion of the property. The condominium and apartment buildings will include retail space at grade, along Wilson Avenue. The proposed redevelopment also includes three levels of underground parking with a total of 564 spaces.

Proposed Use --- # of Storeys --- # of Units ---

Applications:
Type Number Date Submitted Status
Rezoning 16 270444 NNY 10 OZ Dec 23, 2016 Under Review

Renderings:
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Nice. Colour me impressed. It'll sure as heck be an improvement over current-state:

 

[innsertnamehere]

this stretch of Wilson is going to have a significant amount of street fronting retail that wasn't there 10 years ago.

 

[Adjei]

This looks good.

 

[greenleaf]

Fantastic. This looks great. I really hope that sawtooth rooftop isn't lost in the end (it looks like it matches - what appears to be - a sawtooth ground level design for retail).

This is just a quick step to the subway and that retail will be a nice addition to connect up with the Bathurst intersection (there's good Filipino food up here).

 

[jje1000]

Feels very European in its detailing.

We'll see what we end up with of course.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Love the institutional look and feel of the project - totally hot for our suburban avenues.

AoD

 

[ADRM]

Love the institutional look and feel of the project - totally hot for our suburban avenues.

AoD

Totally hot for any of our avenues, IMHO. And, yeah, to an earlier comment -- my first thought upon seeing it was (in a good way) "looks like Hamburg."

 

[AlbertC]

Totally hot for any of our avenues, IMHO. And, yeah, to an earlier comment -- my first thought upon seeing it was (in a good way) "looks like Hamburg."

Having spent a couple past winter Holidays in Hamburg, this does remind me of some of the newer developments found in the HafenCity area.

 

[modernizt]

I agree, this thing brings a different type of sensibility than most Toronto residential projects.

Don't get too attached to what you see now, though; looking through the drawings, it appears very schematic/preliminary, even compared to a number of applications that go up around here. It has a lot of evolving ahead of it, but definitely off to a clear, concise start.

 

[Towered]

Wow, this came out of nowhere, though I suppose that part of Wilson has been seeing a bit of action over the years.

Seems there might actually be hope for one of Toronto's ugliest streets...

 

[picard102]

Disappointed the traffic study didn't address southbound turns on Faywood by recommending it be removed or restricted further.

this stretch of Wilson is going to have a significant amount of street fronting retail that wasn't there 10 years ago.

Not sure how many more drycleaners, remittance, and convenience stores the neighbourhood can support.
Judging by the glacial pace of Gramercy it's going to sit empty for years.

 

[interchange42]

Want to create a pedestrian shopping culture in an area that hasn't had one? To thrive, every type of shop requires a particular threshold population within walking distance. It's easiest to support a convenience store or a coffee shop. They might come when you get a thousand new people living within walking distance. A barber shop and a bank? Maybe two thousand within walking distance. A craft shop? Maybe fifteen thousand. Whatever the numbers really are, one thousand people may support only two shops, but ten thousand people may support one hundred shops.

The street now only boasts new people in Gramercy or Station Condos, but soon there will be many more developments there, (including this one), and many more types of shops whose minimum thresholds to survive will have been crossed.

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[picard102]

Want to create a pedestrian shopping culture in an area that hasn't had one?

Do we?

 

[Towered]

Do we?

Absolutely, on as many poorly designed suburban streets as possible (and that's the majority of Toronto). Those are the best areas of the city.