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The sprawling 60-acre Crosstown Community redevelopment continues to reshape the northwest corner of Don Mills Road and Eglinton Avenue East. Once home to IBM’s Celestica campus, the site is transforming into a mixed-use hub, anchored by the Ontario Science Centre station on the soon-to-open Eglinton Line 5 Crosstown LRT and the upcoming Ontario Line 3. Buildings are planned across the site that include residential towers, townhouses, offices, retail, and recreation, along with new parks.
UrbanToronto’s July, 2024 update detailed the progress on One Crosstown Towers and The Crest, and since then, they and other buildings on the site have been advancing. Furthest along is the site's first office building right at the corner of Don Mills and Eglinton. Designed by Core Architects for Metrus Properties, Crosstown Place's nine storeys of mirrored walls are encrusted with diamond-like projections. The building, seen in September 2024 below, will have a direct connection to the rapid transit station that's been built below the adjacent intersection.
West of Crosstown Place, One Crosstown’s three towers, mid-rise Crest, and associated townhome blocks — designed by Core Architects for Aspen Ridge Homes — are nearing completion. In this October, 2024 view looking south, the stepped, curving massing of The Crest is visible, with its top two floors above the sixth-floor step-back now fully clad in white framing panels and glazing. The black cladding of its mechanical penthouse has also been applied, while the construction hoist remains on its north elevation. Behind The Crest are Crosstown Towers I, II, and III, with the crane of Tower I on the right recently dismantled.
In this view, looking east, Towers I and III having topped off, their concrete mechanical penthouse levels visible. Cladding installation is advancing steadily, with dark panels and glazing now covering two-thirds of Tower I, but only halfway up Towers II and III. The distinctive staggered facades feature both punched-out and punched-in sections, creating a checkerboard pattern along the west and east elevations of each tower. Construction hoists remain active on the north elevations of Towers I and II.
Meanwhile, further north on the site, the 27-storey Generations, designed by architects—Alliance for Aspen Ridge Homes and Larco Investments, is steadily rising. It has been progressing with the installation of dark glazing on the west elevation from the second through fourth floors. On the north elevation, reconstructed limestone panels pay homage to the site’s heritage, preserving elements of the IBM office designed by Clare G. MacLean in 1951 that previously dominated the site.
From an aerial perspective, Generations' U-shaped massing above its podium is revealed. The west volume has topped out at ten storeys, while the taller east volume rises steadily with approximately 14 storeys formed, advancing toward its final 27-storey height. Two construction hoists run along the south elevation. Cladding installation is underway, now enclosing about eight storeys of the taller volume.
This sweeping view looking southwest captures the Generations site in the middle ground, with Crosstown Towers and The Crest in the backdrop. What's most obvious here is all the land that is still to be redeveloped at the site, mostly with more residential buildings, and most of those to be blocks of townhouses. At right, where a field awaits attention, will be a significant new City-run recreation centre for the whole Don Mills area.
Upon completion, the Crosstown Community will feature buildings ranging from 11.52m to 135.02m metres in height, delivering a total of 4,921 residential units across the sprawling site.
UrbanToronto will continue to follow progress on this development, but in the meantime, you can learn more about it from our Database file, 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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