Downtown Toronto faces the daunting task of balancing an ever-changing city, the need for greenery, and being a place for many to work, live, and socialize. This balancing act is evidenced in the zoning by-law amendment application documents being prepared for 839 Yonge Street, north of Bloor Street. Bousfields, along with Adamson Associates Architects and other team members, prepared a design for CT REIT, the development arm of Canadian Tire Corporation.
The site currently includes a Canadian Tire store and gas station, as well as a Service Ontario office at 839 Yonge Street. The proposed project would result in new towers from a shared podium covering much of the site. The north tower at 839 Yonge Street would be 160.2 m and 49 storeys high, and would be on the west side of the lot facing Yonge Street. The neighboring south tower at 835 Yonge Street would face the TTC corridor on the east side of the lot, with a shorter height of 136 m and 41 stories.
At the base would be a 10-story podium containing a mix of retail, residential and amenity space. The project would also consider greenery for the area, with 627m² of open space. There would be a landscaped roof over the top and the podium would stand next to a private publicly accessible space (POPS) at the northeast corner of Yonge and Church streets.
In addition to retaining green space, 839 Yonge Street would also retain the designated heritage façade facing Yonge Street. These components date back to 1935, which were retained from a former Canadian Tire store, when the Canadian Tire Corporation previously expanded the site. Currently an entrance to the car park, the proposal would use this facade as an entrance to the retail area.
There would be 950 residential units between the two towers, with approximately equal amounts of indoor and outdoor amenity space of 1,908 m² and 1,900 m² respectively. There would be three parking garage levels, with 138 residential spaces and 223 commercial spaces. There would also be 1,096 bicycle parking spaces. The site is located about halfway between the Bloor-Yonge and Rosedale subway stations, and a short walk from either.
The retail space would total 17,663 m², with the intention of the proposed design to include a new Canadian Tire store, as 839 Yonge Street is one of the oldest Canadian Tire stores in the country. The store is just one of the many balancing pieces of this new proposal.
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