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Fuelled by its convenient location at the new Vaughan Metropolitan Centre terminus of the TTC's Line 1 subway, a new community is forming around Jane and Highway 7. Several projects are taking shape in the blocks surrounding the new station, the largest being SmartCentres' and CentreCourt's 100-acre master-planned community, known as Transit City at SmartCentres Place.
The Diamond Schmitt Architects-designed community has been under construction since early 2018. In the roughly one and a half years since shovels went into the ground, two of the community's first three condominium towers—with heights of 55 storeys—have grown to become dominant features on the nascent Downtown Vaughan skyline.
When we last checked in on construction back in May, the complex's northwest tower had risen above the 20-storey mark, the northeast tower's podium was taking shape, and the standalone southwest tower had reached the 16th level. Two of these towers progressed a fair bit over the summer, with the northwest tower now having its 44th floor formed, and the southwest tower now standing 35 storeys tall.
At the north end of the site, a podium links the fast-rising northwest tower to where the northeast tower is soon to rise. Here, the first floors are now being formed above the podium for the northeast tower, eventually to rise to the same height as its sibling towers.
Cladding installation has been gradually enclosing the first two towers with a mix of reflective blue-tinted windows divided by slender vertical mullions, and framed by a pattern of staggered white boxes. The northwest tower is now enclosed as high as the 35th floor, while the white vertical frames have been installed up to the 21st level. On the south tower, glazing has been installed up to the 25th floor and the staggered framing has risen as high as the 16th level.
Just east of the tower bases, crews have begun to mobilize on the future footprint of Transit City's next phase. Known as TC4 and TC5, the two new condominium towers will be joined by a purpose-built rental building and new public space at grade.
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