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A redevelopment at northwest corner of Don Mills Road and Sheppard Avenue East may bring additional residential and community amenities to North York's Don Valley Village area. Marlin Spring Developments has submitted Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendment applications to the City of Toronto to intensify the site at 2500 Don Mills with a two-tower condominium with over 800 residential units and commercial space at grade.
The 0.7-hectare property is located on the northwest corner of the intersection of Sheppard Avenue East and Don Mills Road, a 2-minute walk from Don Mills subway station, across the street at Fairview Mall, and is kitty corner to Elad Canada's recently completed Emerald City development. The site currently houses a gas station, convenience store, a take-out restaurant, and associated surface parking. To the south across Sheppard Avenue is a residential low-rise townhouse community.
The property is located in a block shared with three existing multi-unit residential buildings, all built in the Tower-in-the-Park style: 1650 Sheppard Avenue East, 2600 Don Mills Road, and 25 Leith Hill Road, all between 15 and 19 storeys. All have active development applications, each to add new 30 to 33 storey towers, that are either approved, appealed, or under review by the City. The proposals include new public and private roads added to the block, with the City overseeing a block context plan, aiming to coordinate the intensification of the area.
For this site, Wallman Architects have designed two residential towers, at 30 and 39 storeys, atop a four-storey podium, with 50,082m² of residential gross floor area (GFA) and 982m² of ground-level retail, for a density of 7.35 FSI.
The two towers follow the City's guidelines of 750m² floor-plates, and are generally rectangular in shape, with their long edges parallel to Sheppard Avenue. They each have their own base building area connected at the 3rd and 4th storey, creating a 2- storey high breezeway at grade. The building at the northeast corner of the property is proposed at 39 storeys, while the building at the south end of the site closer to the intersection corner of Sheppard Avenue East and Don Mills Road, is proposed at 30 storeys.
Within the total 823 dwelling units proposed, 10 units are townhouses facing west and north. The unit mix is proposed at 2 studios (0%), 530 one-bedrooms (64%), 210 two-bedrooms (26%), and 81 three-bedrooms (10%).
A total of 1,780m² of indoor amenity space is proposed. The two residential towers share 868m² of E-W facing, outdoor amenity space on the roof of the base building. A rectangular 688m² portion of the lands located at the northwest corner of the Property is proposed to be dedicated for a new public park, representing 10% of lot area. It would add to a larger piece of parkland associated with an adjacent redevelopment proposal.
Shared between the two towers are three levels of underground parking that accommodate 376 motor vehicles (327 for residents, 49 for guests) and 741 bicycles. There is no surface parking proposed for the development.
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