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Midtown West Residences Ltd has submitted a Zoning By-law Amendment application to the City of Toronto for 699 Lawrence Avenue West, a property in the Yorkdale-Glen Park neighbourhood. Located on the south side of the street, the property is approximately 260 metres west of the intersection of Lawrence Avenue West and Allen Road, and Lawrence West subway station, and directly across the street from the Lawrence Allen Centre, a shopping mall formerly known as Lawrence Square.
The application would demolish the existing two-storey retail and commercial strip buildings on the site.
The surroundings are mostly two type of area. Across Lawrence to the north is characterized by a range of retail/commercial employment uses including restaurants, retail stores, fitness and wellbeing centres, and a 10-storey office building. Adjacent to the site on the south side of Lawrence are a gas station and 3-storey office building to the east, 3-storey townhome blocks to the west, and a low-rise neighbourhood of single-detached dwellings to the south.
In the image below, none of the ghosted buildings shown around the proposal represent actual proposals to the City, but illustrate what the proponents of this proposal believe could be proposed in the future.
The actual proposal here is a mixed-use Core Architects-designed development comprised of a high-rise residential tower rising to 40 storeys from a 7-storey podium with at-grade retail uses. It would have 360 residential units in a mix of 46 studios (13%), 183 one-bedrooms (51%), 43 one-bedroom + dens (12%), 52 two-bedrooms (14%) and 36 three-bedrooms (36%). At ground level, approximately 163m² of retail use is proposed. A gross floor area of approximately 22,910m² is proposed, having a density of 12.64 FSI.
The ground floor would also consist of the lobby area, a bike room with 76 visitor parking spaces, and indoor amenity spaces. A total of 1,421m² of amenity space would be provided across the ground level and level 8, with 636m² of indoors and 785m² outdoors. The outdoor space would include a dog run area on the ground level, along with dining areas and lounge areas on level 8 with a communal barbecue and furniture such as patio chairs, tables and benches. Outdoor terraces would be provided on level 2, and levels 4 through 8. Five neighbourhood parks are within a 700-metre walk.
A driveway would enter the site from Lawrence Avenue West. Vehicle parking would be provided below grade on four levels. Of 135 parking spaces, 8 would be accessible spaces. Parking level 1 would also provide space to park 325 bicycle for residents.
The site is a short walk to Lawrence West subway station, located approximately 260 metres to the east, while five bus routes have stops within 190 metres of the site. For residents with vehicles, the site is close to the Lawrence interchange with Allen Road, which connects to Highway 401 not far north of the site.
More information on this development will come soon, but in the meantime, 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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