Toronto 850 York Mills | 47m | 9s | Dymon | TACT Architecture

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850 YORK MILLS RD
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9 storey non-residential mixed use building consisting of retail uses on the ground floor, offices uses and self-storage uses throughout the building and two levels of underground parking. A total of 699 parking spaces and 7 loading spaces will be provided. Vehicular access is proposed along Lesmill Rd which will facilitate access to the property and the loading area and another vehicular access will provide access to the York Mills Rd underpass.
 
Looks like it's for these barren lands:

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this is the site of the old cancelled walmart that smartcentres was going to build before wal-mart pulled out of all their urban expansion sites a few years ago.
 
Interesting that they are going in, and Blue Bird is going to renovate the old National Post building around the corner.
 
More about Dymon's plans to expand their storage empire:

“We’re out there to try and really service a guest in an industry that really hasn’t focused much on the guest. We’ve had record sales in Ottawa. We just opened our ninth location in Ottawa at Lincoln Fields on Carling Avenue which is a major thoroughfare. And we had the fastest fill in the industry. We stabilized in less than four months and we had 1100 units. Frankly, we can’t build them fast enough in the city of Ottawa.

“We have four other projects under way now under construction in Ottawa. And we have 15 other sites in the GTR (Greater Toronto Region) that we are working on right now and our plan is to build about 15 million square feet over the next seven years between Ottawa and the Greater Toronto Region.”

Creighton said the Etobicoke facility is the latest and greatest offering in the company’s portfolio. The wine storage aspect of the facility will include a private member’s lounge with wine tasting rooms, a bar that members can invite guests over, a meeting room that can be used for dining and a full-time sommelier on staff.

 
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The revised 9-storey (46.40 m, reduction of 4.4 m) development on the subject lands will have approximately 53,427 square metres of gross floor area (reduction of 3,003 sq. m.), comprising of 31,514 square metres of self-storage (reduction of 1,385 sq. m), 16,817 square metres of office (reduction of 1,641 sq. m.), and 5,096 square metres of retail (increase of 23 sq. m.). The revised proposal no longer includes a western retail entrances and will not have pedestrians travelling in this area, as per the City Staff suggestion. Furthermore, the retail elements have been moved to the south façade proximity to the York Mills underpass. The loading/ underground parking ramp has been moved and consolidated to the western façade where the retail components were. The revised proposal has reduced the overall building height by one full storey. Fenestration has been added to the north façade as per City Staff comments to break up the massing as well as the building overall being reduced by one-storey Lastly, a right in/right out condition has been added to the Lesmill entrance to help mitigate the pedestrian crossing distances and conflicts noted in City Staff comments. A comment response matrix has been prepared as part of the resubmission to outline all revisions made to address City Staff comments received to date.

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Retail will be nice, but obviously a bit competitive with the nearby plazas. (a bit as in...so so)
Not really a fan of self storage, but it's good to fill in this area by the very least.
 

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