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Along a stretch of Jarvis Street lined with some of the area’s oldest surviving buildings, plans have been filed to redevelop 211 Jarvis Street in Toronto’s Garden District with a 32-storey mixed-use rental tower. Designed by Arcadis for Manga Hotels, the proposal would not include hotel suites, but instead deliver rental units and ground-floor retail space while retaining the street-facing facades of seven heritage-designated 19th-century rowhouses, overseen by ERA Architects. The site is within walking distance of Yonge Line 1 and future Ontario Line 3 stations, and therefore within both the TMU (Dundas) and Moss Park station Protected Major Transit Station Areas.
The site is on the east side of Jarvis Street north of Shuter Street, spanning 207 through 219 Jarvis Street, seven contiguous three-storey heritage-designated rowhouses dating to the late 19th century and currently containing rental housing. Situated within the Garden District, the site is surrounded by a mix of residential, institutional, commercial, and hospitality uses characteristic of Downtown Toronto. Manga Hotels’ 32-storey TOOR Hotel and The 203 Residences on Jarvis, completed in 2024, stands directly to the south.
While the surrounding area has intensified considerably, the seven rowhouses have remained as surviving examples of Jarvis Street’s 19th-century built form. Now, Goldberg Group has submitted Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendment applications, along with a Rental Housing Demolition and Conversion application, to the City of Toronto on behalf of the developer.
The proposal calls for a 32-storey mixed-use building reaching 108.7m. A three-storey podium would incorporate the retained heritage facades along Jarvis Street, while the tower element above would rise from an approximately 750m² floor-plate. The development would contain 22,530m² of Gross Floor Area, including 22,153m² devoted to residential use and 377m² of ground-floor retail space, resulting in a Floor Space Index of 13.2 times coverage of the 1,704m² assembly.
A total of 315 rental units are proposed, comprising 277 new market rental units and 38 rental replacement units. The suite mix would include 15 studios, 179 one-bedroom units, 92 two-bedroom units, and 29 three-bedroom-plus units. Residents would be served by three elevators, equating to one elevator for every 105 units, indicating that high speed motors would be necessary to provide good response times when all elevators are in service. Indoor and outdoor amenity spaces would be distributed across the third, fourth, and eighth floors, providing a combined 1,310m² of amenity area, including 831m² indoors and 479m² outdoors.
The heritage strategy centres on retaining the primary Jarvis Street facades of all seven rowhouses in situ, along with a portion of the north facade of 219 Jarvis Street. The retained buildings would form the base of the development, with upper-storey step-backs before a recessed reveal, intended to maintain views of the historic rooflines.
There would be an approximate 20m separation from the TOOR Hotel and The 203 Residences on Jarvis to the south and roughly 22m from the approved tower at 225 Jarvis Street to the north. Below grade, a three-level underground garage would contain 66 parking spaces, including 61 resident spaces and five visitor spaces. Bicycle facilities would include 348 spaces, split between 284 long-term and 64 short-term spaces.
TMU station is located approximately 650m to the northwest, while Queen station is roughly 750m to the southwest. Future rapid transit access would be strengthened by the under-construction Moss Park station on the Ontario Line 3, located approximately 450m southeast of the site near Queen and Sherbourne streets. Multiple surface transit routes are within walking distance of the site. Nearby cycling infrastructure includes bike lanes on Shuter and Queen streets, cycle tracks on Sherbourne Street, and routes linking through Moss Park.
The proposal arrives amid continued redevelopment activity across the eastern portion of Downtown Toronto. To the immediate north of the site, Missoni Sky is planned at 68 storeys. To the south, Hotel Beebop is planned at 9 storeys. To the north, Toronto Metropolitan University is advancing its 14-storey Science Building. Northeast, plans have been submitted for 44-storey and 52-storey towers at 218 and 239 Dundas Street East, respectively, while a 61-storey tower at 18 Dalhousie Street is proposed to the southwest.
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| Related Companies: | Arcadis, Crozier Consulting Engineers, ERA Architects, Goldberg Group, Gradient Wind Engineers & Scientists |
