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On September 17, the City of Toronto received applications for Official Plan and Zoning By-law amendments along with a Site Plan Approval application from KingSett Capital to facilitate the construction of a new 35-storey tower in Yorkville.
The applications pertain to a site on the east side of Bay Street bordered by Yorkville Avenue to the north and Cumberland Street to the south, and apply to two properties known municipally as 1235 Bay Street and 1255 Bay Street. Together, the two properties are 2,179.7m² in size, with frontages of 79.5 metres along Bay Street, 26.75 metres along Cumberland Street and 28.06 metres along Yorkville Avenue. The site is currently home to two office buildings with retail at grade.
The applications seek to demolish the 9-storey building on the northern portion of the site (1255 Bay Street), located at the corner of Bay and Yorkville, and replace it with a 35-storey tower designed by BDP Quadrangle. The 10-storey building on the site’s southern portion (1235 Bay Street), on the corner of Bay and Cumberland, would remain.
The proposed tower would sit atop a 10-storey podium, intended to ensure visual alignment with the site’s remaining building. At the east end, the podium would step back a minimum of 4.55 metres above the second floor to create an outdoor amenity terrace on the 11th floor.
The ground floor of the development would front both Bay Street and Yorkville Avenue, with a setback along Bay Street meant to ensure a 6-metre sidewalk width. An outdoor POPS (Privately Owned Publicly accessible Space), measuring 61.9m² in size would be located at the corner of Bay Street and Yorkville Avenue. The building would have ground-floor retail facing both Bay and Yorkville.
At the 11th storey, the building would step back 1.10 metres from the building’s facade along Bay Street and 1.55 metres from its Yorkville Avenue facade to create additional indoor and outdoor amenity space. This 11th storey would provide a visual “break” between the base building and the tower, and would feature taller ceiling heights and dramatic structural elements.
The tower would begin at the 12th storey and would cantilever over the northernmost portion of the existing building at 1235 Bay Street.
The tower would contain a total of 357 residential units, with 103 bachelor units (29%), 109 one-bedroom units (30.5%), 109 two bedroom units (30.5%), and 36 units of three bedrooms or more (10%). The building would also provide 42 underground parking spaces for vehicles, as well as parking space for 429 bicycles divided between the second storey and one of the underground levels.
You can learn more from our Database file for the project, linked below. If you'd like, 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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