Branden Simon
Senior Member
June 15, 2024 - 9th Floor has been installed only 3 more floors to go for first of two 12-Storey apartment buildings and
Holy shit these are ugly. Looks like some sort of soviet communist housing block. Wow how did this get approved.
The Province has never given any city the power to reject proposals based on their looks: Hamilton (and other cities in Ontario) can only refuse if the designs don't meet various building codes.Holy shit these are ugly. Looks like some sort of soviet communist housing block. Wow how did this get approved.
If you click on the project page link at the top of the page it gives to project details: https://urbantoronto.ca/database/projects/roxborough-park.48740Between the townhomes already built and still in progress, the completed building and the two additional buildings in progress - anyone have an idea how many residents this will bring into the area roughly (assuming full occupancy)?
I assumed that was an earlier plan which included a building or two they ditched.If you click on the project page link at the top of the page it gives to project details: https://urbantoronto.ca/database/projects/roxborough-park.48740
UT is pretty good about updating the data.I assumed that was an earlier plan which included a building or two they ditched.
EDIT: I guess it's up to date, since they only show the 5 individual developments.
So that's 1290 units... which brings in probably an average of between 2 and 2.5 people per unity (will split the difference at 2.25) - which is around 2900 people. That's a nice boost in density.
I used to live on Reid Ave. from 1969-1983... so it's a nice and long-awaited improvement to the area.