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An application has been submitted to permit the redevelopment of 525 Eglinton Avenue East, where Cromwell Property Management proposes replacing an existing 10-storey rental apartment building with a 45-storey purpose-built rental tower designed by Wallman Architects. Planned near Leaside station on Eglinton Line 5 in Toronto’s Mount Pleasant East area, the site falls within the Leaside Protected Major Transit Station Area, and would deliver one of the tallest buildings yet proposed along this stretch of Eglinton Avenue East.
The proposal is at the southwest corner of Eglinton Avenue East and Hoyle Avenue, a couple blocks west of Bayview Avenue. The site is currently occupied by a 10-storey, 53-unit rental apartment building, which would be demolished for the redevelopment. While lower-rise residential properties remain to the south on adjacent streets, the area overall is experiencing significant intensification pressure following the coming of the Eglinton Line 5.
The Firm Developments has submitted Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendment applications to the City of Toronto on behalf of the developer. The proposal calls for a 45-storey mixed-use building rising to 152.33m, starting with a six-to-seven-storey podium. The tower would have setbacks of 10m from the west property line and 11.2m from the south, creating a 15.5m separation distance to the upper floors of a new 16-storey building next door to the west at 389 Cleveland Street, now beginning construction. The residential tower would feature an approximately 808m² floor-plate.
The building would contain 526 purpose-built rental apartments, including 53 same-size, same-bedroom-count rental replacement units for the site’s existing suites, while adding 473 new homes. The proposed unit mix would comprise 46 studios, 341 one-bedroom, 113 two-bedroom, and 26 three-bedroom suites. With four elevators serving the building, there would be roughly one cab for every 132 units, indicating particularly high-speed motors would be needed for adequate response times when all elevators are operational.
The development would have 34,991m² of Gross Floor Area, including 34,665m² devoted to residential uses and 326m² of non-residential space, resulting in a Floor Space Index of 18.2 times coverage of the 1,920m² site. At street level, a 326m² retail space would front onto Eglinton Avenue East. Residents would have access to 1,036m² of indoor and 574m² of outdoor amenity areas.
Three levels of underground parking would accommodate 84 vehicle parking spaces, including 77 spaces for residents and seven visitor spaces. Bicycle facilities would total 291 spaces, comprising 237 long-term and 54 short-term spaces, supplemented by 10 publicly accessible bicycle parking spaces at grade.
The site is located approximately 250m, or about a four-minute walk, from Leaside station. Nearby TTC bus routes along Eglinton Avenue East and Bayview Avenue provide connections to destinations across the city. While cycling infrastructure in the immediate area remains limited, the planning materials note that protected cycle tracks are planned along Eglinton Avenue, together with future cycling routes identified through the Yonge-Eglinton Secondary Plan and the City’s Cycling Network Plan.
The proposal joins a growing concentration of high-rise development projects and proposals on the east side of Midtown. Besides the 16-storey 389 Cleveland Street which recently went under construction to the immediate west, 550 Eglinton Avenue East across the street to the north is proposed at 25 storeys. To the east, proposals at 545, 586, and 589 Eglinton Avenue East would rise to 35, 46, and 40 storeys respectively, while the Sunnybrook Plaza redevelopment further east would introduce three towers ranging from 32 to 44 storeys. A 35-storey tower has been proposed at 1779-1787 Bayview Avenue to the southeast. To the northeast, proposals include the dual 15-storey buildings at 609 Roehampton Avenue and a 46-storey tower at 1802 Bayview Avenue.
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