All posts in 30 Weston Rd Stockyards Redevelopment

Stockyards Mall requirement for medical offices requested be set aside.

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At the Toronto City Council meeting of December 4, 2009, the City of Toronto adopted a site-specific by-law for the lands municipally known as 30 Weston Road which included provisions for the inclusion of medical uses on the site. 

 By-law 1203-2009, section 2(vi) states:

 that medical offices or a medical clinic having a minimum of 500 square metres of non-residential gross floor area shall be provided and maintained on the lands for the development having a minimum non-residential gross floor area of 40,000 square metre;

 

To-date, the developers have been unable to secure a medical office or medical clinic to occupy part of the site; however, because of the above section included in the site-specific by-law, the developer must retain 500 square metres of floor area for this use.  While there was, and still is a desire to see some sort of medical use on this site, the intent was not to preclude the developer from leasing their space out for another use if a medical office or clinic could not be found to occupy the space. It is therefore recommended that the provision requiring that space be set aside for medical offices or a medical clinic be deleted from the bylaw.

1st permanent structure is going up at the stockyards development at 30 Weston Rd.


 

The retaining wall of the Old Weston Rd site is now being installed. After which the blog is setting thought that the backfilling behind this wall and then the construction of the actial retail buildings will begin.

The Stockyard retail block 30 Weston Rd current works photos

 

Ground works for the huge Stockyards mall at Weston Rd and Keele St. is moving along with drains and water mains installation currently.

Photo post of the site Wednesday April 2nd 2012.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stockyards retail development landscape images.

The huge and highly anticipated retail mall at the north west corner of St Clair Ave and Keele St. has had building permits issued.

But right now the most viable and rather striking feature of the conversation of the last major lot in the old stockyards area are the large landscape views afforded.

These image were taken access the new TTC loop on St Clair Ave. at Gunns Rd. Also pictured below showing addition landscape work being performed.


– TTC loop below

30 Weston Rd adverse effect on of site property meeting March 21st

A copy of the meeting notice was sent in by a blog reader, thanks.

The large construction effort needed to redevelop the o
D Canada Packers/Bunge site has caused some disturbances amount some of the residents.

Image from notice of meeting.

Will attach full text later today, when at laptop.

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The American retailer Target is coming to the Junction and is probably already targeting you

As the NW of St Clair Ave west and Keele St. / Old Weston Rd is moving to bricks, mortar, and asphalt with a lot of green, an interesting article in this weeks New York Times magazines details how the retailer Target – one of the anchor retailers at the site targets its customers for greater sales.

The article uses a example of purchasing for unborn babies –

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The Stockyards Development vibration meeting with Frances Nunziata

Just caught this in a post comment by Rhain, thanks for commenting it.

There is a meeting with Frances Nunziata about the vibrations on Saturday.

Date: Saturday, November 5, 2011
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Luso Canadian Charitable Society, 2295 St. Clair Ave. West (parking is available at the nearby George Bell Arena, located at 215 Ryding Ave.).

See a CityNews story on it here: http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/video/165656

The Stockyards Development, ground moving equipment all over site

Artist view of part of the completed project

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

View from Gunns Ave with earth moving vehicle moving past

This large retail development being build upon the last great track of Meat packing land, has started to move earth as a beginning to the construction of the retail community they are building. Now that the machines have arrived the blog will begin activity reporting the the project. Probably in much more detail than you need 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

American retailer Target adds The Junction to its lineup

 

Well the Junction gets a Target – a store that can cause  more than a few of the Junction people to drive to Buffalo to shop.

This author is wondering just what effect this will have on the store-scape  in the area, will it ring up customers from the local Walmart, Futureshop and the other big box stores in the area?

 

Will it create a greater retail diverse store class on the local Dundas St. West strip?

One area it will definitively have development effect on in the reworking of 43 Junction Road.

 

Toronto location – at a site being developed by Riocan Real Estate Investment Trust at the corner of Weston and St. Clair– was announced at the real estate company’s annual general meeting Wednesday.

….other interesting stories about this development.

 

Why Target’s Canada Move Matters link

Sizing up which REITs will win from Target’s advance

 

30 Weston Rd. all grinding away

Priestly Demolition grinds up the concrete from  30 Weston Rd.  Bunge plant. Wondering if the clean fill they are creating will be used on site.

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http://www.priestly.ca/demolition.aspx

30 Weston Rd. requires Tree Preservation and Archaeological Assessment

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Informational post 2 on the 30 Weston Rd development

The creation of the retail power centre at the old Bunge Plant at St Clair west and Old Weston Rd has stated a city requirement to…

From city staff reports..

Tree Preservation
This application is subject to the provisions of By-law 780-2004, regarding tree
protection. The applicant has submitted an Arborist Report/Tree Preservation Plan, which
is currently being reviewed by staff.
Archaeological Assessment
The site is within the Interim Screening Areas for Archaeological Potential identified in
the Archaeological Master Plan of the City. The applicant has submitted a Stage 1 and 2
Archaeological Assessment Report. The submitted report indicates that there were no
archaeological resources found on site.

Tree Preservation

This application is subject to the provisions of By-law 780-2004, regarding tree protection. The applicant has submitted an Arborist Report/Tree Preservation Plan, which is currently being reviewed by staff.

Archaeological Assessment

The site is within the Interim Screening Areas for Archaeological Potential identified in the Archaeological Master Plan of the City. The applicant has submitted a Stage 1 and 2 Archaeological Assessment Report. The submitted report indicates that there were no archaeological resources found on site.

30 Weston Rd. zoning approval some highlights

(v) that the non-residential gross floor area permitted for all individual retail stores
less than 232 square metres in size shall not exceed 10 per cent of the total
non-residential gross floor area on the lands;
(vi) that medical offices or a medical clinic having a minimum of 500 square metres
of non-residential gross floor area shall be provided and maintained on the lands
for the development having a minimum non-residential gross floor area of
40,000 square metre;
(vii) that vehicular access and pedestrian access to and from the development must be
provided from Weston Road (for clarity additional vehicular and pedestrian
access may also be provided from St. Clair Ave West and Gunns Road);
(viii) a minimum of 3.2 parking spaces per 100 square metres of non-residential gross
floor area shall be provided and maintained on the lands;
(ix) a minimum of 0.13 long-term bicycle parking spaces for each 100 square metres
of non-residential gross floor area shall be required, up to a maximum
requirement of 40 long-term bicycle parking spaces, shall be provided and
maintained on the lands (for clarity this clause does not limit the number of
long-term bicycle parking spaces that can be provided);
(x) a minimum of 0.25 short-term bicycle parking spaces for each

30 weston zoning approival

This is the 1st information post on the rezoning of

30 Weston Rd, detailing the conditions of the smaller stores  and some of the access details. The core of the rezoning is the deleting

the existing Industrial (I3) Zone and replacing it with the Industrial Commercial (IC).

from the staff report….

smaller stores of less than 232 meters not to exceed 10 percent

that the non-residential gross floor area permitted for all individual retail stores less than 232 square metres in size shall not exceed 10 per cent of the total non-residential gross floor area on the lands;

that medical offices or a medical clinic having a minimum of 500 square metres of non-residential gross floor area shall be provided and maintained on the lands for the development having a minimum non-residential gross floor area of 40,000 square metre;

that vehicular access and pedestrian access to and from the development must be provided from Weston Road (for clarity additional vehicular and pedestrian access may also be provided from St. Clair Ave West and Gunns Road);

a minimum of 3.2 parking spaces per 100 square metres of non-residential gross floor area shall be provided and maintained on the lands;

a minimum of 0.13 long-term bicycle parking spaces for each 100 square metres of non-residential gross floor area shall be required, up to a maximum requirement of 40 long-term bicycle parking spaces, shall be provided and maintained on the lands (for clarity this clause does not limit the number of long-term bicycle parking spaces that can be provided);

also the developer shall provide

Public Art program 30 weston rd

Link: To amend the General Zoning By-law No. 438-86 of the former City of Toronto with respect to the lands municipally known as 30 Weston Road.

Parks and Rec.. requirements of the developer.

Prior to the issuance of the first building permit for the development, the owner will pay by cash or certified cheque the amount of $350,000 to the City, indexed to the CPI index from the date of registration of the Section 37 Agreement, to be

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City of Toronto By-law No. 1203-2009 used for improvements to local parks and recreation facilities at the discretion of the General Manager of Parks, Forestry and Recreation in consultation with the local Councillor. Priority consideration will be given

Currently zoned industrial land owner seeks change to retail use

30 weston rd meeting AM

DATE: Tuesday, November 10, 2009
TIME: 7:30 pm
PLACE: Etobicoke Civic Centre, Council Chamber
399 The West Mall, Toronto M9C 2Y2

Read the offical notice over at the

MULOCK AVENUE RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION site link

Mulock Residents Assoc site has a good short overview of the residents concern about the 30 Weston Rd project.

Link to MULOCK AVENUE RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION 30 Weston Rd Post.

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For those  who are interested, this group is in one of the most wonderfully zoned areas of the Junction- it’s an area where you can live in house zoned industrial.

If you have not walked the area –  do – it’s great for the feel of what the Junction was even 12 years ago.

30 Weston Rd. demos some of the last Junction industry process tanks

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The process tanks at 30 Weston Rd have been dropped to the ground using a machine to demo the concrete structure of the building – literally and the contractor is cutting them apart. These process tanks stopped being used just over a year ago and the only other large process tanks in a plant off Symes Rd. stopping being used in the past 60 days.

We now have the sad opportunity of see the last remnants of a Junction industry type fade away – the process industry.