Developer proposes Junction’s 1st condo car stacker
Highlights, Pics not from the article
A three car stacker as sold by http://www.mytoolguy.com/PL14000ParkingLift.htm
No underground parking – the developer is proposing parking stackers, three trays on hydraulics accessible off of Pacific Avenue
mix of one and two bedrooms
units would face out onto Pacific Ave
from the article…
At this point, the developer is proposing an eight-storey building at 2978 Dundas St. W. comprised of 51 units, a mix of one and two bedrooms starting at 575 square feet to 1,200 square feet. Most units would face out onto Pacific Avenue. The seventh floor would include two-storey penthouses. Because it’s a narrow site, about 50-feet wide, there is no room for underground parking, Rom Colthoff said. Instead, the developer is proposing parking stackers, three trays on hydraulics accessible off of Pacific Avenue, 27-parking spaces altogether. The building would include 4,000 square feet of retail space on the ground floor.
Similar to many of its existing projects throughout the city, R.E. Millward and Associates Ltd. is proposing a 25-metre structure that tapers back at a 45 degree angle at 16 metres.
It amazing that just this property is to be redeveloped. Usually, developers buy up multiple buildings the size of this one and demolish them for a single large development. The streetscape gets one longer facade, which can be monotonous to walk by. I wish we’d see more of this kind of development throughout the city. It’s replacing an insignificant two storey block. There are no heritage issues fortunately.
I heard that at a recent meeting, people were concerned about modern architecture on this building’s facade. I think modern design can fit in well in historic areas like ours with the right materials on the facade like brick and stone. Also, I think the architecture should be particularly impressive because Dundas and Pacific is a very historic intersection for the Junction: it’s where the town hall was located, inside James Hall on the southeast corner.
Hey Juntioneer
I walked by the silo’s on Junction Rd and Keele today, and they are putting on a new roof or repairing the existing one on the warehouse in the parking lot. Maybe a new tenant moving in?
Oh, thks for the update,
I contact them and get a update
I checked the realty listing for the site and it says it has been leased
http://www.aristonrealty.com/component/option,com_ezrealty/task,detail/id,192/Itemid,37/
This proposal, much like Duke worries me with how it can permanently change the neighbourhood.
What I expect after a project like this gets built: a significant increase in rents, displaced small businesses, more precedent for further development. This project “might” not affect a heritage structure but that is not to say a project following in it’s footsteps won’t. It is certainly very far out of line with the height of every other building in the neighbourhood.
Junction is turning a corner in it’s gentrification process. I think we are turning a corner where we are going to start seeing things and people that make the neighbourhood what it is disappear unless we start to care about controlling it.