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A condominium proposal at 799 Brimley Road in Scarborough has been returned to City Planning with a revised design, marking the fourth submission since UrbanToronto reported on the initial proposal in 2023. Designed by Studio JCI for Accurate Designs, operating as Brimley Place GP Inc., the new plan would rise 24 storeys in Scarborough’s Bendale South neighbourhood, located within walking distance of the Lawrence East station on the Danforth Line 2 Scarborough Subway Extension that is currently under construction.
The site is on the east side of Brimley just south of Lawrence Avenue East. Currently home to a two-storey strip plaza and surface parking lot, the surroundings include low-rise residential, small-scale commercial buildings, and institutional uses. While much of the immediate area is suburban in form, new mid- and high-rise development proposals are beginning to emerge.
Planning for the site began with a pre-application meeting in May, 2022, followed by an initial Zoning By-law Amendment submission in March, 2023 proposing a 14-storey, stepped slab style building rising 50.13m, plus a row of townhouses at the rear, with 391 units total.
After City feedback, the application was significantly revised and resubmitted in October, 2024 as a 24-storey tower with the townhouses removed and the unit count increased to 417. A third submission followed in February, 2025 with minor refinements. This led to the current April, 2025 resubmission, which maintains the new overall form while reducing the total units to 385 and further refining the design. The tower would be served by three elevators, resulting in a ratio of approximately one elevator per 128 units, requiring high-speed motors for adequate service.
Batory Planning + Management has resubmitted the Zoning By-law Amendment application to the City of Toronto on behalf of the developer. The revised proposal maintains a 24-storey mixed-use tower with a height of 88.3m, rising from a 7-storey podium along the Brimley Road frontage. The massing has been refined over successive submissions, eliminating a previous townhouse block. The tower’s floorplate measures 800m², slightly above the City's 750m² guideline, and the application points to comparable approvals elsewhere and offsets the added mass with setbacks.
The total Gross Floor Area has been reduced to 28,180m² from 28,494m² in the October, 2024 iteration, but up from the initial 25,466m². Of this, 24,108m² would be residential, while 359m² is reserved for at-grade retail fronting Brimley Road, replacing a portion of the commercial space lost with the removal of the existing strip plaza. The Floor Space Index (FSI) remains at 5.1 times coverage of the 5,552m² lot.
Amenity areas include 853m² indoors and 1,362m² outdoors, found in the podium and landscaped areas surrounding the building, a slight reduction from previous totals. Parking would be provided on a single underground level, with 82 spaces for residents, 22 for visitors, and one for institutional or other use. The application also provides 314 bicycle parking spaces (284 long-term and 30 short-term), an increase from 298.
TTC bus routes operate along Brimley Road and Lawrence Avenue East. Stops are located within 110m of the site, or roughly a two-minute walk. Looking ahead, the Scarborough Subway Extension is now under construction, with a station coming at Lawrence Avenue and McCowan Road, about 800m east of the site.
The proposal joins others intensifying the Lawrence Avenue East corridor. To the west, 2683 and 2655 Lawrence East propose 12 and 28 storeys, respectively. 1380 Midland Avenue proposes nine buildings ranging from 9 to 27 storeys, and 2650 Lawrence East calls for two towers at 25 and 35 storeys. East of the site, 615 McCowan Road proposes a 25-storey building, and the Lawrence East Transit-Oriented Community envisions three towers between 24 and 36 storeys.
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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