LMVDR
Active Member
I doubt LCBO is going anywhere. I’m sure this is a very long term hold scenario.
Toronto 543 Yonge Street | 228.85m | 68s | CentreCourt | Arcadis
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isaidso
Senior Member
Agree but as long as we eventually end up with a redevelopment on either side of this.
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We won’t (the assembled parcels are still too small when angular planes from OPA 183 are applied), and Yonge is better for it.
maestro
Senior Member
Misread things
isaidso
Senior Member
Whether Yonge is better for it is a matter of opinion. Those in opposition will just have to grin and bear it till the rules are changed, I suppose.
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Grin and bear what? Multiple policies, as well as the parcel fundamentally not being large enough, are allied against the redevelopment of the block in the manner you suggest.
I don't get what the city would gain by having all the smaller buildings on Yonge replaced with monolithic redevelopments. I'd like to see older buildings fixed-up, and often that means just the facades, or a few metres back as well, which is a little better… but we seem to end up with chains behind the rebuilt facades at the loss of the mom-and-pop places. Not like I never patronize chains, but do we want only chain retail?
555 Yonge, the building to the immediate north of this, is a condo that was converted from a 1986-built 9-storey office building a dozen or so years ago now. There's only been one condo that I know of where enough of the owners sold for the condo corp to be dissolved and the building redeveloped, so while it's not likely that's CentreCourt's plan here, it wouldn't be impossible. It would be easer for them to try to buy more buildings to the south, but if they did, they'd still end up with a lot that's not particularly deep, and little ability to build much density here.
…or maybe this lot somehow gets combined with the Plaza-owned parking lot to the east?
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555 Yonge, the building to the immediate north of this, is a condo that was converted from a 1986-built 9-storey office building a dozen or so years ago now. There's only been one condo that I know of where enough of the owners sold for the condo corp to be dissolved and the building redeveloped, so while it's not likely that's CentreCourt's plan here, it wouldn't be impossible. It would be easer for them to try to buy more buildings to the south, but if they did, they'd still end up with a lot that's not particularly deep, and little ability to build much density here.
…or maybe this lot somehow gets combined with the Plaza-owned parking lot to the east?
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AlbertC
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Application Details
www.toronto.ca
543 YONGE ST
Combined Official Plan & Zoning By-law amendment for a 68-storey mixed-use building comprised of approximately 40,108 square metres of residential gross floor area with 663 dwelling units and 356 square metres of grade-related retail space.
innsertnamehere
Superstar
Ooh, Centrecourt too. So we know this on will be built and occupied in, say, 3 years.
Northern Light
Superstar
Application Details
543 YONGE ST
Combined Official Plan & Zoning By-law amendment for a 68-storey mixed-use building comprised of approximately 40,108 square metres of residential gross floor area with 663 dwelling units and 356 square metres of grade-related retail space.
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I swear I didn't see this file when when I was in the AIC at 5am....... LOL
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Ok, lets get a fulsome look at the Docs:
As per usual for a Centrecourt, the architect is Arcadis.
There are no other renders, but I can blow the one above up a bit:
Site Plan:
Ground Floor Plan:
Description:
Elevators: 5 vs 663 units
@Paclo
AlbertC
Superstar
I wouldn't be surprised if marketing efforts are being engaged as we speak!
UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
Oof! Kinda makes me wish this one will be zoning exercise only... >.<
TossYourJacket
Senior Member
The back half of the tower is fine, but what on earth is going on with the front half? Fussy and overdone. Also, way too large of a residentially lobby entrance on Yonge. Why kill our main street with grandiose condo lobbies?
steveve
Senior Member
Some additional context:
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Couldn't even be bothered to do 6 elevators. Another CentreCourt project that will fly through zoning, be constructed far too quickly, be an absolutely terrible place to live, and will completely fall apart around the folks who are forced to live there because the only thing that mattered was the closing IRR.
Really great system we have here. Just phenomenal stuff, folks.
Really great system we have here. Just phenomenal stuff, folks.