An announcement from earlier this week is nicely going to fill in a gap in the urban fabric on a property currently addressed as 55 Eastern Avenue. The name of the project is Cherry Place, for the street with the longest frontage on the property, so I assume that the address will be changed when the building is finished. The Rekai Centre on Sherbourne (a 126 bed long term care home) will be moving to a new building here with 200 beds (state of the art vs. decades old), which they will share with a new Options for Living condo, which will take the upper storeys.
Here's what the property looks like from Eastern facing south via Google Street View. (It's a long, thin property, but this somewhat distorted image makes it look even thinner.)
Anyway, it'll back on the recently constructed (and architecturally awful) Honda and Acura Downtown dealerships that face Eastern and Front respectively. I'll be really glad to have a building across Cherry from the new Cooper Koo YMCA: it'll repair the tear in urban fabric as you approach the Canary District from Eastern Avenue and help make that area feel more a part of the whole city (even while there are more parking lots in the vicinity to be redeveloped as well).
Anyway, with the specialized care suites and the affordable condos, I'd say it's good news all around.
Speaking of good news, there's more info on our front page.
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Here's what the property looks like from Eastern facing south via Google Street View. (It's a long, thin property, but this somewhat distorted image makes it look even thinner.)
Anyway, it'll back on the recently constructed (and architecturally awful) Honda and Acura Downtown dealerships that face Eastern and Front respectively. I'll be really glad to have a building across Cherry from the new Cooper Koo YMCA: it'll repair the tear in urban fabric as you approach the Canary District from Eastern Avenue and help make that area feel more a part of the whole city (even while there are more parking lots in the vicinity to be redeveloped as well).
Anyway, with the specialized care suites and the affordable condos, I'd say it's good news all around.
Speaking of good news, there's more info on our front page.
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