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A proposal has been submitted to the City of Toronto bring a 48-storey tower to 4975 Dundas Street West in Etobicoke's Islington City Centre area. Designed by B+H Architects for Hi-Lo Investments, the primarily residential, mixed-use building would rise within the Islington Major Transit Station Area, within a several minutes walking distance of the Bloor Line 2 subway station.
The property is the south side of Dundas Street West between Cordova Avenue and Mabelle Avenue and is currently occupied by a one-storey commercial plaza tenanted by a Dollarama and Willowbrae Academy daycare, with an associated surface parking lot and play area. The surrounding context reflects the area’s transition, with older slab-shaped apartment buildings and low-rise retail along Dundas to the north, institutional and multi-family residential uses to the south around Islington Junior Middle School and Mabelle Park. There is also a growing cluster of high-rise proposals and recent builds closer to the subway station.
Colliers Strategy & Consulting has submitted Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendment applications to the City on behalf of the developer. Rising 159.95m, the building is planned with a 12-storey podium that presents a two-storey streetwall along Dundas Street West before a stepback.
The tower’s floor-plate is proposed at 854m², larger than the 750m² that the City normally approves. The project would deliver 647 rental units within 45,632m² of total Gross Floor Area (GFA), for a Floor Space Index of 12.23 times coverage on the 3,735m² lot. Six elevators are included in the design, equating to roughly one for every 108 units, requiring somewhat faster than normal elevator motors to deliver prompt service.
Of the GFA, 45,176m² is dedicated to residential space, while 456m² is set aside for grade-related commercial uses fronting Dundas, shaded pink in the image below. Amenity areas are planned across 1,395m² indoors and 1,129m² outdoors, with indoor spaces concentrated on the second and third floors and connected directly to outdoor terraces. Additional outdoor amenity areas are located atop the two-storey base and the roof of the 12th-floor podium.
Three levels of underground parking, providing a total of 177 spaces, divided between 128 for residents and 49 for visitors, plus pick-up and drop-off, would be accessed via a driveway off of Dundas Street. Bicycle storage is accommodated through 528 spaces, including 444 long-term and 84 short-term stalls.
The site is located about 750m, or an 11-minute walk, from Islington subway station on Bloor Line 2, where a new accessible entrance and bus terminal are slated for completion by late 2026. The station connects to multiple surface transit routes. Cycling access has improved recently in the area, with new lanes introduced through the Six Points reconfiguration to the west, while further upgrades are anticipated along the Bloor Street corridor, linking the area into the citywide network.
The tower would join high-rise growth already underway around Islington station. To the east, 1276 Islington is planned at 35 storeys, while to the north and northeast, construction is progressing on Amica Islington Village at 9 storeys, 12 Cordova at 26 storeys, and Westerly Condos at 20 and 27 storeys. Additional proposals include 4888 Dundas West at 25 storeys and 4875 Dundas Street West at 45 storeys, while southeast of the site, 25 Mabelle is seeking approval for a 49-storey tower.
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