Toronto The Gloucester on Yonge | 147.82m | 44s | Concord Adex | a—A

[androiduk]

According to a retail tenant, they have to be out by next July.

 

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587 YONGE ST
Ward 27 - Tor & E.York District

to provide for a 44 storey building. In April, 2013, the registered owners filed an appeal to the Ontario MunicipalBoard. Proposed residential gfa of 34977 square metres and a non residential gfa of 3360 square metres.
Proposed Use --- # of Storeys --- # of Units ---
Applications:
Type Number Date Submitted Status
Site Plan Approval 15 248458 STE 27 SA Nov 6, 2015 Under Review

 

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Request for Direction - 587 to 599 Yonge Street, 2 to 4 Dundonald Street, 7 to 9 Gloucester Street - Zoning Amendment Application
http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2016.TE13.81

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Same report from the April TEYCC - elevations to come:

http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2016/te/bgrd/backgroundfile-91233.pdf

AoD

 

[ShonTron]

This project has been off the radar until Ben's Beer Blog posted that Bar Volo will close after 28 years, by the end of September, and that the 44-storey tower (with 528 residential units and 232 parking spaces) was approved last month.

Bar Volo will be missed. And I lament that new streetfront retail in condos is - with some notable exceptions - incredibly boring and generic. Bar Volo will likely be replaced by a chain pub if any drinking establishment opens here. Yonge Street maybe be tacky, but it's at least interesting, and it's somewhere you can find a place like Bar Volo.

 

[Brown Vinyl Window]

Well, this is pretty depressing...probably time to list the house and pack it in. I was under the impression that the Bar Volo building was to be spared beigeification. Looking forward to the new bastions of torontoculture (BMO/drycleaner/RBC) that will take Volo's place!

 

[stjames2queenwest]

Oh. Really? I thought clover was where the shisha place is. I didn't realize it was this spot.

Are we sure about this? Bar volo is at dundonald. I thought this application was for Gloucester?

 

[interchange42]

The Bar Volo building is at the south end of the Clover project, and at least its facade is being saved, not sure how much more.

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[DouginTO]

Oh. Really? I thought clover was where the shisha place is. I didn't realize it was this spot.

Are we sure about this? Bar volo is at dundonald. I thought this application was for Gloucester?

It's the entire block from Gloucester to Dundonald.

 

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Three new images:

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Not sure if a monolithic glass facade for pretty much the entire Yonge frontage is necessarily all that great given the context. It interrupts the storefront rhythm of the strip and not in a good way.

AoD

 

[P23]

I like the massing of the tower portion, but yes the street level is pretty sterile as usual.

 

[stjames2queenwest]

Tower looks good, I like the 3 amalgamated tower masses. The same glass for a whole block is a little concerning. I suppose it depends on what the retail is.

 

[maestro]

I like the white bikini render person

 

[innsertnamehere]

Tower looks good, I like the 3 amalgamated tower masses. The same glass for a whole block is a little concerning. I suppose it depends on what the retail is.

There are actually 2 buildings here. The white building is its own, higher end condo tower from my understanding.