Toronto 77 Howard Street | 131.4m | 38s | Greatwise | Arcadis

[Northern Light]

The proposal here is an infill, purpose-built rental tower, with retention in full of the existing rental building on site.

Ste as is, per Streetview:

The App:

Application Details

www.toronto.ca

From the above:

Site Plan:

Ground Floor Plan:

Elevator Ratio: 4 elevators - 456 units or 1 elevator to every 114 units.

 

[rdaner]

Thanks! So is the new infill apartment zoning reform approved yet and if so will it make this easier?

 

[Towered]

Subversive flatiron!

 

[beepboop]

Beyond hideous & dated.

 

[Amare]

Are we playing a Sim City game of how many towers we can jam into a single node before it literally burst it seams?

Honestly I think there needs to be a development tower ban in St.James Town, this is just lunacy at this point.

Speaking to this proposal: nobody wants or asked for this foolish "parkland" dedication on site. Or the sad and sorry outdoor "amenity" space. Any development even contemplated in this neighborhood should be forced to bring a major community benefit, because this neighborhood (already the densest in Canada) is already jammed past any reasonable point and is maxed out.

 

[mferna]

A 38-storey infill residential tower has been proposed to rise in Toronto's St James Town. https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2025/09/38-storey-infill-residential-proposed-st-james-town.59403

 

[fredsintown]

Totally agree with Amare. I lived there in the early 80s then in the early 2000s, getting any denser will be an issue. Just ridiculous, there are other areas that could use this.

 

[jmi22]

Are we playing a Sim City game of how many towers we can jam into a single node before it literally burst it seams?

Honestly I think there needs to be a development tower ban in St.James Town, this is just lunacy at this point.

Speaking to this proposal: nobody wants or asked for this foolish "parkland" dedication on site. Or the sad and sorry outdoor "amenity" space. Any development even contemplated in this neighborhood should be forced to bring a major community benefit, because this neighborhood (already the densest in Canada) is already jammed past any reasonable point and is maxed out.

Agreed, this is an obscene treatment of the neighbourhood, especially when the City has made almost ZERO public realm improvements to physically fit all these new ppl. The rate at which we shovel the cost of intensification and economic growth on quite literally the poorest postal codes in the city is outrageous.

Why does Howard Street, chock full with hundreds of below grade parking spaces, with hundreds more on the way, have a sidewalk barely wide enough for two to walk astride, all so we can fit a few dozen more parking spaces? Areas in NYC with comparable densities (and even those degrees lower) have sidewalks 3x the width of our pathetic curbs, full with trees.