[AlbertC]

Trolleybus have been working on assembling 17 land parcels along Adriatic Road, which is a small residential side street in the Islington & Hwy 401 area lined with single family homes. They look to be redeveloping (almost) the entire street with multiple highrise residential buildings.

Trolleybus | Communities

This new community consists of 58 beautifully designed townhomes in the heart of the Bayview Village neighbourhood. It is a truly unique development nestled within a quiet, landscaped community.

trolleybusdevelopment.com

Current condition of Adriatic Road:

A few renderings posted on Trolleybus' website, with the buildings designed by superkül:

 

[Northern Light]

17 SFH to vanish, in favour of several hirise towers..............

Pfft. What yellow belt is this?

 

[north-of-anything]

One hopes that they'll take advantage of the Islington frontage and make a pleasant streetwall, if not a retail unit or two. Almost anything is an improvement over a dead-end street of bungalows, though.

 

[Undead]

Seems like Trollbus's specialty is assembling low rise parcels. I believe this is their fifth entirely assembly based project.

 

[yoshirocks702]

Oh wow, I have a relative that lives in the adjacent building south of this, it'll be a good change to the area.
The grade change on islington due to the train track overpass will make it challenging for a good street wall I think. But up to Monogram place is fairly flat hopefully they make the most of it.

 

[slickpete83]

OMG how is this even possible , what are the odds of one developer buying up all 17 of those houses, and not a single owner refusing to sell, i wish i knew i would have bought that house and i would be the only guy on that street who refuses to sell to the developer unless they offered me like $3 million dollars hahahaha..

there is only record of 4 houses that sold on that street according to HouseSigma data that dates back to 2003

 

[innsertnamehere]

Trolleybus' whole schtick is assembling properties then selling them to developers to actually build.. They have gotten it down to a science.

 

[AlbertC]

View of the current condition along Islington, and how the homes on Adriatic Road back on it. The metal protection barrier corresponds with the street incline as it approaches the overpass bridge that goes above the train tracks:

 

[afransen]

I think it would be smarter to put retail streetwalls perhaps on collectors away from arterial/traffic sewers. Toronto is, IMO, making a mistake trying to make traffic sewers vibrant urban streets. That effort will fail because we still need vehicle-priority roads to access neighbourhoods. It is a less dramatic version of Brampton's batshit crazy idea of making the 413 a truck highway/urban boulevard.

 

[Northern Light]

Application Filed for this one:

Development Applications

City Planning COA Application Information Center

app.toronto.ca

 

[Northern Light]

* Docs are Up * (in near-record time!)

First, from the Planning Rationale Report:

Slightly more expansive render of one posted above:

And these:

 

[yoshirocks702]

Looks like we have a hold out house at the south west end at the site of the new park, they bought 17/18 houses on that street.

 

[i3uild]

OMG how is this even possible , what are the odds of one developer buying up all 17 of those houses, and not a single owner refusing to sell, i wish i knew i would have bought that house and i would be the only guy on that street who refuses to sell to the developer unless they offered me like $3 million dollars hahahaha..

there is only record of 4 houses that sold on that street according to HouseSigma data that dates back to 2003
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They tie them up with a $50k deposit and close on zoning or some other milestone.

 

[slickpete83]

Looks like we have a hold out house at the south west end at the site of the new park, they bought 17/18 houses on that street.

i wonder what changes could be made to the masterplan if that 1 house sold like everybody else ? , bigger park or more units ?
if they build the condos as planned, what could be done with that small lot with the house in the future? redeveloped into a few townhomes on the corner ?

 

[AlbertC]

UT article summary:

Trolleybus Urban Development Proposes 1,044 Units in Place of 17 | UrbanToronto

Trolleybus Urban Development has submitted OPA and ZBA applications to the City of Toronto in regards to proposed residential buildings of 19, 34, and 38 storeys that would replace 17 single-family homes with over 1,000 units just east of Islington Avenue and south of the 401 in Etobicoke.

urbantoronto.ca