Completed in 2016,
Alchemy Properties'
FXFOWLE-designed, 35XV Residences, comprised of a 25-storey glass tower built atop a Catholic high school, has a been a project long in the making with plans for the development going back as far as 2008. In a major windfall for both Xavier High School and Alchemy Properties, the developer paid the school $13.7 million for their air rights, and then purchased the former Union Hall at the back of the school for $16.6 million. The demolition of the Union Hall allowed the school to expand from its current frontage on W 16th St through to W 15th St, while the new arrangement with the school or "community space" directly below the proposed new condo tower allowed the developer to build higher and denser than they would have otherwise.
