Toronto 75 Broadway Avenue | 117.34m | 38s | Hazelview | WZMH

[WillTo]

Whoa, it's cantilever!

 

[Marcanadian]

Settlement approved at LPAT:

2019 CanLII 47997 (ON LPAT) | CanLII

 

[Marcanadian]

Rental housing demo application recommended for approval:

Agenda Item History - 2019.TE7.14

 

[Marcanadian]

Site Plan Approval application submitted:

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[PMT]

Site Plan Approval application submitted:

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[Koops65]

A zoom-in and flyover:

 

[WillTo]

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These renderings leave out 55 Broadway.

 

[Lachlan Holmes]

Womp womp. New architectural packages were posted in March of this year and while the overall tower design hasn't changed, the proposed materials sure don't instill confidence:

All images from the Application Information Centre.

 

[interchange42]

Womp womp. New architectural packages were posted in March of this year and while the overall tower design hasn't changed, the proposed materiality sure don't instill confidence:

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All images from the Application Information Centre.

Funny that neither those waist-height mullions nor those spandrel panels show up in the high quality renderings from last year's initial SPA application…

…so this design is absolutely the victim of a value engineering exercise resulting in a textbook case of The Cheapening™.

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[ProjectEnd]

Well at the heart of it, Timbercreek are asset managers - this can be a good thing if the manger cares about their portfolio (Allied, Oxford, Brookfield) but can be a disaster if they just see it as a cash register. Timbercreek fundamentally don't care about what they're building as long as it increases the portfolio NOI year over year. Timbercreek's dogshit treatment of existing tenants is also pretty well documented.

 

[AlbertC]

Yikes...looks like this has the makings of Design Haus 2.0, the midtown edition.

 

[PMT]

 

[GenerationLee]

Well, I guess I can't be surprised to see a turd rise here. It seems like any addition to an apartment building downtown or nearby ends up looking much worse IMO.

 

[PMT]

 

[AlbertC]

Brief mention in this article from July 2021:

Hines, Hazelview partner on T3 Sterling Road office project

Hazelview Investments is best known for its involvement with purpose-built rental apartments, but it has been an equity partner with Hines in its T3 Sterling Road office project in Toronto for more than two years. “Most of our development continues

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Construction is expected to begin this year on a 38-storey, 300,000-square-foot, 336-unit apartment in the Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue East area of Toronto at 73 Broadway Avenue.

Hazelview will build on what was a surface parking lot for an adjacent asset it already owns. The project is expected to take about 45 months to complete.