Ontario Line : King-Bathurst Station - (North 25 s + South 25 s) - Infrastructure Ontario

[HousingNowTO]

Presentation slides from this week's Open House for King-Bathurst "Transit-Oriented Community" above the new Ontario Line station are posted on-line.

North Building : 25-Storeys / 187 Units
South Building : 25-Storeys / 235 Units

TOTAL : 422 Units (*mostly RENTAL, "Affordable-Units" = TBD)

PDF - https://engageio.ca/en/engagement-initiatives/king-bathurst

 

[concrete_and_light]

Not storefronts on either building at the ground floor? Hopefully there is some micro-retail or something at least in these transit concourses.

 

[AHK]

Threads already exist for these two projects - including updates about Metrolinx preliminary plans for the stations on these sites:

663 King West | 66.12m | 17s | TC | Core Architects ​

Pre-application consultation at Metro Hall tonight at 6pm.

662-668 King St W (Allied?/Metrolinx, ?s, ?) ​

Future redevelopment of the buildings currently owned by Allied REIT at 662 and 668 King Street West for the Ontario Line King and Bathurst station, with Community Oriented Communities development above. From the Ontario Government news release at...

 

[Northern Light]

Perhaps @interchange42 could decide how to disentangle this.

* I note 663 already had a Database entry due to earlier proposals/iterations.

662 does not, meaning you wouldn't see it on the map; I can understand how that would get overlooked.

 

[W. K. Lis]

Will they be enlarging the tunnel between the Wheatsheaf and Ford York?

See link.

 

[TheTigerMaster]

Is this massing representative of the final product, or just a placeholder?

 

[bilked]

Not storefronts on either building at the ground floor? Hopefully there is some micro-retail or something at least in these transit concourses.

Wait, you don't actually think you'd need less than a 15,000 square foot lobby to buy a Presto card?

 

[Northern Light]

Wait, you don't actually think you'd need less than a 15,000 square foot lobby to buy a Presto card?

Sarcasm, from @bilked; colour me shocked.

 

[bilked]

Sarcasm, from @bilked; colour me shocked.

Well I set out my views earnestly in the 663 King thread and Metrolinx still didn't change their plans!

 

[AnnetteMeetsJane]

Seems like the same issues exist for the Queen-Spadina plans - huge lobbies. The docs are up here:

NE corner: here
SW corner: here

My interest is the NE corner, and the absence of a substantial entrance and some sort of micro retail fronting Spadina seems like a lost opportunity. Long, impervious sheet of glass on a heritage façade The documents and plans for both buildings seem to be oriented towards Queen W. rather than Spadina.

AmJ

 

[The Preservationist]

Hows about the "Bank Note Bar" relocated into the podium?

 

[interchange42]

Threads already exist for these two projects - including updates about Metrolinx preliminary plans for the stations on these sites:

663 King West | 66.12m | 17s | TC | Core Architects ​

Pre-application consultation at Metro Hall tonight at 6pm.

662-668 King St W (Allied?/Metrolinx, ?s, ?) ​

Future redevelopment of the buildings currently owned by Allied REIT at 662 and 668 King Street West for the Ontario Line King and Bathurst station, with Community Oriented Communities development above. From the Ontario Government news release at...

As was said in the Transportation Forum, we'll see how it goes, whether we keep separate threads for the station and the buildings above, or not.

42

 

[turini2]

As was said in the Transportation Forum, we'll see how it goes, whether we keep separate threads for the station and the buildings above, or not.

42

If it's anything like the Crossrail stations and their OSD - you'll want to separate the two of them

 

[W. K. Lis]

Wait, you don't actually think you'd need less than a 15,000 square foot lobby to buy a Presto card?

Could end up as a booth in a flea market located there.

Food stalls by the Anyang Station, a ground level metro station on line 1 of the Seoul Subway in Anyang 1 dong, Manan gu.​

From link.

 

[junctionist]

Here's a company that does popup retail in Montreal Metro stations. I've also seen artisans selling handmade trinkets at Metro stations. It seems like quite an evolution from the boring old Gateway newstand. You can do interesting things with spacious subway stations in terms of public realm vitality.