Northwest Healthcest Healthcare Properties Reit has again initiated plans for a three-story community with mixed use on the 5 Fairview Mall Drive northwest of the Fairview Mall and the planned infill renovation of its parking spaces. The revision designed by WZMH Architects increases the towers, which were previously proposed at 35 and 39 floors, a height and adds a third 47-story tower. The development would take steps from the Don Mills Station on Sheppard Line 4 in Don Valley Village in Toronto.
View to the southeast of 5 Fairview Mall Drive, designed by WZMH Architects for Northwest Healthcare Properties Reit
5 Fairview Mall Drive of 9,762 m² in the southeastern corner of the Fairview Mall Drive and the Don Mills Road is currently organizing a four -story medical office building with 8,000 m² large Floor Area (GFA), surrounded by parking spaces. The Fairview Mall extends over 80,000 m² in the southeast, whereby residential buildings with medium buildings can be found in the cross -border properties in the north.
The proposal for FairView Mall Redevelopment, which directly adjacent to the 5 Fairview Mall Drive property, is currently converting its country with 14 new buildings from 22 to 52 floors, mainly on what is available for the shopping center today. Phase 1 comprises three towers between 38 and 52 floors. The owners of many regional shopping center in the larger golden horseshoe consider similar intenifications in their location. The members of the Urbantoronto forum have led a certain comparison with the renovation of Scarborough Town Center with this proximity due to its proximity of about 7 km east, where over 40 towers up to 65 floors and over 15,550 residential units are proposed at the larger location. 6,163 new residential units are proposed on the Fairview Mall website.
View to the southeast from the Fairview Mall Drive to the current website, the image of Google Maps was called
The first proposal for the 5 Fairview Mall Drive in August 2022 included two residential towers of 31 and 36 floors, which were associated with a five -story, not in the homely podium and maintained the building of the medical office. After feedback and a changing development scene, Bousfields has now rejected the official change in the planning, amendment of the statutes and the approval applications for the location plan for the city of Toronto on behalf of the developer.
Previous design of WZMH Architects for Northwest Healthcare Properties Reit
The new proposal requests the approval for three residential towers of 35, 39 and 47 floors, which were between 119.25 m and 155.55 m high, from the previous upper height of 134.4 m. The highest tower replaces the office building and introduces a new public road along the East property border. The total GFA is now 92,696 m², a strong increase compared to the previous proposal of 50,203 m² with 82,202 m², which is dedicated to the living space (compared to 38,771 m² and 9,259 m² to office space (from 10,883 m²). The floor surface index (FSI) of 5.96 to 8.42.
Location plan, designed by WZMH Architects for Northwest Healthcare Properties Reit
The three towers would group around a new inner courtyard. Office areas were consolidated in the eight-story podium under the 39-story tower for continued medical office consumption. The retail trade, which was reduced from 549 m² to 328 m², would encourage the ground level. It would more than doubled 2,755 m² interior in the podiums and 2,590 m² outdoor applications, including the courtyard plus terraces, which doubles the previous 2,428 m² total.
Podium for 39-story (left) and 35-story (right) towers, which were designed by WZMH Architects for Northwest Healthcare Properties Reit
The revised layout also demonstrates a 938 m² pop (privately owned publicly accessible room) on the corner of Fairview Mall Drive and Don Mills Road. The development would continue in three phases: the 39-story tower and part of the pops first, followed by demolition for the 47-story tower and the remaining pops, then the 35-story tower.
Residential units have more than doubled from 598 to 1,295. The 47-story tower has five elevators, the 39-story tower four (plus three for office use) and the 35-story tower four or about one for 108, 90 or 100 units each. A three -story underground garage would offer 388 vehicle parking spaces, a reduction in 544 places. This includes 228 Office, 142 residential, 15 visitor and 3 -car content. Bicycle parking spaces were increased from 449 to 1,011 places with 881 long-term and 96 short-term bodies, while 28 rooms that were not located in the locations were maintained.
Plan on the ground floor, designed by WZMH Architects for Northwest Healthcare Properties Reit
The Don Mills Station is a three -minute walk to the south with TTC bus streets along the Sheppard Avenue East and the Don Mills Road and the York Region Transit (YRT) services from TJE North. With regard to the future, Metrolinx studies potential extensions of the Sheppard Line 4 to Scarborough Town Center in the east (exchanging the Danorth Line 2 Scarborough U -Bahn extension) and after Sheppard West station at University Line 1 in the west.
An aerial recording of the site and the surrounding area, picture of the submission to the city of Toronto
There are other development proposals in the region, mainly as infill on existing locations in the tower-in-park style. In the north, 20 Godstone Road are proposed in 12 floors. In the southwest, high -high proposals include 25 Leith Road (25 floors) and 1650 Sheppard Avenue East (31 floors), while in the Don Mills Road 2600 a development with four tower with heights of 42 to 47 floors is proposed. The plan is planned near 2500 Don Mills Road to see two towers, the 43 and 52 floors.
Urbantoronto will continue to pursue progress in this development. In the meantime, however, you can find out more about this from our database file linked below. If you want, you can join the conversation in the associated project forum thread or leave a comment in the room provided on this page.
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