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Nearly three years after UrbanToronto’s last update in February, 2022, when shoring rigs had just arrived, 4800 Yonge Street has emerged above grade after a prolonged and technically complex below-grade phase. Rising at the southwest corner of Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue and straddling a curving subway tunnel, the 49-storey development is now just three storeys into the air. Designed for Menkes Developments by Arquitectonica and B+H Architects with Turner Fleischer as Architect of Record, the primarily rental residential tower will gradually take on a distinctive shape and presence on the North York Centre skyline.
An aerial view in January, 2024 captures preparations for the first crane installation in the excavated pit. The crane base is wrapped in orange tarp, while extensive temporary shoring lines the pit perimeter. Horizontal steel rakers brace the northwest corner, while canted rakers at the northeast corner provide support there. The slow, methodical excavation reflects the site’s major constraint: the subway tunnel that links Yonge Line 1 and Sheppard Line 4. The Sheppard-Yonge interchange station lies just to the north and east of the pit.
A high-angle view from thirteen months later in February, 2025 shows construction advancing toward grade, progressing through five underground parking levels. The excavation is now largely occupied by dense rebar mats and active formwork. Along the Bogert Avenue frontage at right, this block closed during construction, a work platform has been installed just above grade-level to support staging.
By July, 2025, construction has accelerated as the structure rises one storey above grade with the second tower crane now installed near the northwest corner. Exceptionally dense rebar assemblies are visible across the second floor, forming a substantial transfer slab. Along Bogert Avenue, a truck-mounted concrete boom pump arches into the site.
Catching up to current day another ten months later, construction is continuing to advance on the seven-storey podium, with the concrete structure now rising to three storeys, with rebar cages projecting upward to mark work to support the fourth and fifth floors. Along the south elevation, a row of large cylindrical reinforced concrete columns rise from a thick transfer slab to the third floor. Jutting out from the transfer slab, crews have begun assembling a structural steel I-beam frame for a canopy over the Bogert, Yonge, and Sheppard sidewalks.
From the Hullmark Centre across the street, we get a view from above of the steel canopy frame at the southeast corner, to be finished with a white fascia and white soffit and curve along the podium’s north, east, and south elevations. At ground level on the right, extensive scaffolding and shoring line the Yonge Street frontage near the future subway pedestrian connection.
Looking southwest across Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue at night, the emerging form begins to assert itself, rising in front of Emerald Park Condos to the left and Nestle Canada building at right. At the base, the podium walls will comprise clear and spandrel glazing, framed by white aluminum window fins, along with metal louvres and metal panel cladding, while the structure-in-progress hints at the flowing canopy and retail frontage to come.
Once complete, 4800 Yonge Street will stand 168.24m and deliver 498 rental units.
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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| Related Companies: | B+H Architects, Figure3, Menkes Developments, o2 Planning and Design, Peter McCann Architectural Models Inc., Platinum Condo Deals, The Fence People, Turner Fleischer |
