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A major apartment infill proposal has been submitted for 6200 Bathurst Street near and Steeles Avenue West in North York's Westminster neighbourhood. Plans submitted to the City of Toronto call for a pair of purpose-built rental towers rising 39 and 43 storeys beside an existing 14-storey rental building on a Tower-in-the-Park site. Designed by Wallman Architects for Cromwell Property Management, the plans are significantly taller and denser than surrounding proposals.
The proposal applies to a property at the northwest corner of Bathurst Street and Fisherville Road, just south of Steeles and the Toronto-Vaughan city limits. The site is currently occupied by a 14-storey rental apartment building with 181 units, alongside surface parking and landscaped areas. The site is surrounded by a concentration of mid- and high-rise apartment buildings along Bathurst Street and Steeles Avenue West, while lower-rise residential areas occupy nearby local streets.
The Firm Developments has submitted Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendment applications to the City on behalf of the developer. The redevelopment would concentrate new construction on the treed portion of the property facing Bathurst Street, while retaining the existing apartment building on the western portion. Two new residential towers are proposed, with the south tower rising 39 storeys (132.52m) and north tower rising 43 storeys (144.12m). Each tower would sit atop a six-storey podium. Together, the towers would contain 62,067m² of residential Gross Floor Area, producing a Floor Space Index of 13.3 times coverage of the 4,679m² site.
The project would introduce 1,021 purpose-built rental units, with 483 in the south tower and 538 in the north tower. The proposed unit mix includes 65 studio units, 648 one-bedroom units, 208 two-bedroom units, and 100 three-bedroom units. Both towers would be served by four elevators, resulting in approximately one elevator for every 121 units in the shorter tower and 135 units in the taller tower. High and particularly high-speed motors would be required for the buildings respectively to ensure acceptable wait times.
Tower floor-plates would measure approximately 811m² in the north tower and 810m² in the south. A 25m separation distance is proposed between the two new towers, while the north tower would maintain a 25m setback from the existing apartment building to the west. The south tower would sit 15m from the retained building through a corner-to-corner relationship. Indoor and outdoor amenity facilities would be distributed between the ground-floor and seventh-floor amenity levels, including 1,855m² indoors and 1,917m² outdoors. The landscape plan would also introduce a POPS (Privately Owned Publicly-accessible Space) spanning 467m² along the Bathurst Street and Fisherville Road frontages.
Below grade, two underground parking levels would provide 125 parking spaces, including 72 resident spaces and 53 visitor spaces. Bicycle facilities would include 384 spaces, consisting of 348 long-term and 36 short-term spaces.
The site is served by multiple surface TTC routes providing connections to Finch, Pioneer Village, Wilson, and Forest Hill stations. The site is positioned approximately 2.5km west of the future Steeles station on the Yonge Line 1 North Subway Extension and near the planned Steeles Avenue West Bus Rapid Transit corridor. While dedicated cycling infrastructure in the immediate area remains limited today, there are planned cycling facilities along Bathurst Street and future cycling improvements on Steeles Avenue West.
The application adds to a growing cluster of redevelopment proposals around Bathurst and Steeles. Nearby proposals to the southwest include 25 Fisherville Road, where 12- and 21-storey towers are planned, a 26-storey tower at 6020 Bathurst Street, and a three-tower development ranging from 16 to 29 storeys at 6040 Bathurst Street. To the south, 6035 Bathurst Street is proposed at 15 storeys, while sites east of Bathurst Street include the 10-storey Marcher Towers proposal, 12- and 15-storey buildings at 150 Cactus Avenue, and a 29-storey development proposed at 765 Steeles Avenue West.
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