Toronto 86 John Street | 42.97m | 10s | Tawse | Sweeny &Co

jje1000 said:
I think if quality materials are used, the current design will be perfect for the site. It's almost exactly the same design as the previous one, but without the chamfered corners. The very first design was sort of interesting, but I don't think it could have been built without compromising the vision promised by the rendering.

IMO too many people often get caught up in little design gimmicks that don't really have any contextural relevance and can often work to quickly date a design.
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Strictly an opinion thing nothing more. Many of us like the quirky buildings better then everything just fitting in to its sorrourdings. Examples of this scattered around the city. And they attract attention. Usually in a positive way.
 

Ultrathin rental building could be coming to Toronto’s Entertainment District

By SHERINA HARRIS STAFF REPORTER EMMA SANDRI STAFF REPORTER
Tues., June 11, 2019

The city has received an application to build a narrow 10-storey residential rental building at 86 John St. on a property wedged between Festival Tower and the Pinnacle. The lot is roughly 6.5 metres wide and just under 43 metres long.

The new building would include a restaurant and 14 two-bedroom units — with most floors containing two units, one at each end, according to the application submitted at the end of May. The building would have no vehicle parking spaces, but would include two short-term and 13 long-term bicycle parking spaces.

It would also include a multi-level restaurant space, two rooftop terraces and a shared outdoor amenity space, said Holly Saplamaeff, an associate at Sweeny & Co Architects, which submitted the revised application on behalf of Tawse Realco Inc.

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The company previously applied to build an eight-storey commercial building on the site in 2016, according to a heritage impact statement prepared for the city. Saplamaeff said the project was revised to be a residential rental building because of “market demand.”
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Looks like the site has remained barren after the soil sampling shown above. There's also no fence barrier along John Street:

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Given high land prices and construction costs, would a project like this be financially viable in the suburbs? Say it was replacing one or two 60s Scarborough bungalows going for $1 million a pop right now.
 
Undead said:
Given high land prices and construction costs, would a project like this be financially viable in the suburbs? Say it was replacing one or two 60s Scarborough bungalows going for $1 million a pop right now.
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You couldn't get rezoning for something like this in any yellowbelt area of Toronto where you typically find 60s bungalows… which are likely on a wider lot that this one. Meanwhile, this one's taken long enough that it's not likely been easy to make this one financially viable here.

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interchange42 said:
You couldn't get rezoning for something like this in any yellowbelt area of Toronto where you typically find 60s bungalows… which are likely on a wider lot that this one. Meanwhile, this one's taken long enough that it's not likely been easy to make this one financially viable here.

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Assuming rezoning, of course.
 
Undead said:
Assuming rezoning, of course.
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Which, in the yellowbelt where those bungalows are, you can't get. (And frankly, even if yellowbelt zoning reform comes, they'll never allow skinny 10-storey towers to nestle in between bungalows.)

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the new Official Plan policies that went into place in 2018 (?) mean that you can't rezone for anything that isn't the existing "prevailing character" in neighbourhoods. So if the existing neighbourhood is single storey bungalows - nothing but single storey bungalows are allowed without an OPA.
 
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