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Cadillac Fairview plans to redevelop the site of the Don Mills Civitan Arena with a 31-storey mixed-use rental tower in their Shops at Don Mills precinct in North York. Designed by BDP Quadrangle, the redevelopment forms part of a land exchange agreement with the City of Toronto, under which the arena lands would be transferred to Cadillac Fairview for intensification. At the same time, an adjacent parcel at 966 Don Mills Road would be conveyed to the City for the creation of a new public park, while the City of Toronto is replacing the single rink Civitan Arena with two rinks in the new Don Mills Community Centre about a kilometre to the south.
The 6,333.5m² site, addressed to 1030 Don Mills Road, is positioned at the northeast corner of O’Neill Road and a private east-west street. The property is located just west of Don Mills Road, within the internal street network and commercial uses of the Shops at Don Mills redevelopment site. The block is currently occupied by the Don Mills Civitan Arena, a two-pad facility leased by the City, but will be the southern edge of the broader open-air retail complex.
Planning permissions for residential intensification within the Shops at Don Mills date back to 2011, when Official Plan Amendment 587 and related zoning amendments established a framework to introduce housing while retaining the retail centre. A Minor Variance application was approved by the North York Committee of Adjustment in March, 2025, permitting the building height and revised parking supply needed to implement the design. The redevelopment is to proceed in tandem with the land exchange.
Bousfields has submitted a new Site Plan Approval application to the City of Toronto on behalf of the developer. The proposal organizes the development into a 31-storey tower rising to 103.1m, emerging from a seven-storey, “C”-shaped podium. The building would deliver a total Gross Floor Area of 36,340m², resulting in a Floor Space Index of 5.74. Of this, 35,730m² would be dedicated to residential use, with 611m² allocated to retail space at grade, at the southwest and northwest corners of the podium.
The residential program would comprise 402 purpose-built rental suites, including 206 one-bedroom, 136 two-bedroom, and 60 three-bedroom units. Amenity space would total 980m² indoors and 1,140m² outdoors, located at grade, on the eighth floor, and on the rooftop. Four elevators are planned, resulting in approximately one for every 101 units.
Below grade, a single level of underground parking would provide 145 resident parking spaces, with no dedicated visitor or retail parking, as these uses are permitted to rely on the existing supply elsewhere within the block. Bicycle parking totals 239 spaces, including 199 long-term spaces located on the ground and upper ground floors and 40 short-term spaces at grade, each with direct exterior access.
Several TTC surface routes serve the site, all within a 4- to 10-minute walk. Don Valley station on the recently opened Eglinton Line 5 is located approximately 1.3km south of the site and will eventually also serve as an interchange with the under-construction Ontario Line 3. Longer-term transit plans include a potential northward extension of the Ontario Line 3 along Don Mills Road. Cyclists have access to the nearby East Don River Trail and Moccasin Trail, connections to the Don Mills Trail via the Duncairn Park Trail, and recently completed dedicated bikeways along Eglinton Avenue East.
To the east, 2–6 The Donway East is proposed with four towers ranging from 16 to 29 storeys. Northwest of the site, 150 The Donway West would introduce buildings of 9 and 15 storeys, Spirit Residences is planned at 12 and 28 storeys, and at 895 Lawrence East, three towers are proposed between 26 and 34 storeys.
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| Related Companies: | BDP Quadrangle, Bousfields, Gradient Wind Engineers & Scientists, Grounded Engineering Inc., STUDIO tla |
