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A new mixed-use development is getting set to bring new housing to Toronto's Queen and Coxwell area, nestled between the vibrant streetscapes of Leslieville and the waterfront recreation-friendly Ashbridges Bay with its beaches and parks. The upcoming Don Summerville Apartments Redevelopment is to reshape the existing rental site with a new condominium complex and a rental replacement building. As marketing kicks into gear for the condominium dubbed Queen & Ashbridge, we're learning more about the pair of conjoined towers from RioCan Living, and Context Development.
Designed by Teeple Architects, Queen & Ashbridge is to be built with three separate volumes. The main 16- and 17-storey pyramid-shaped towers to the south are to offer views of Lake Ontario, Woodbine Park, and the Downtown Toronto skyline, while an eight-storey volume would rise over Queen Street East with brick cladding, meeting the street with wide sidewalks, trees, shops, and restaurants.
Further connecting the development with the surrounding public realm, the project is to host a series of outdoor spaces including a lushly green courtyard and landscaped walkways, while residents will also enjoy elevated outdoor spaces including patios, green roofs, along with the private balconies and terraces of each unit.
Location is a major selling point within the development, including the project's planned contribution to the area's vibrant retail and restaurant culture, as well as connectivity to the surrounding city via the TTC's 501 streetcar, with a stop along the site's Queen Street frontage. Just as important to the project's branding is the area's beach culture, with Woodbine Beach and the Ashbridges Bay marina both less than a kilometre to the south of the project site.
Queen & Ashbridge is to launch with 366 condominium units that range in area from 503 to 1,987 ft², and priced between the $500,000s to over $2 million. Residents will have access to a long list of amenities, with interior spaces appointed by Mason Studio. Amenities are to include resort-style spaces dubbed the Upper Lounge, The Woodbine Coworking Space, and The Coast Club—housing a two-storey fitness centre with cardio, strength and functional training zones and dedicated yoga and spin studios. We'll be sure to take a closer look at these amenity spaces in a future article.
A new Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) building is to bring 138 rentals to the east end of the site on a footprint currently home to a surface parking lot along Coxwell. It will include replacements for the existing 120 Rent-Geared-to-Income units within the existing two towers that will be demolished, and serve as another example of the type of highly successful neighbourhood revitalization that TCHC has taken on in Regent Park and Alexandra Park, using private development resources to replace aging rental housing stock, and opening up their land assets to condominium developments that are then used to finance new rental units.
You can learn more from our Database file for the project, linked below. If you'd like to, you can join in on the conversation in the associated Project Forum thread, or leave a comment in the space provided on this page.
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