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Gairloch adds high-rise project to Toronto development list

Gairloch Developments has made its reputation building mid-rise condominiums, but a proposed 34-storey tower in Toronto’s Mount Dennis area will be its first solo high-rise. “It’s part of our core business strategy to be diversifying the product offering and doing
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The development site at 15-23 Hollis St. will be close to a large transit hub with Toronto Transit Commission, Union Pearson Express and GO Transit stops, a key factor which attracted Gairloch.

“Mount Dennis looks like it’s going to be one of the most dynamic and up-and-coming neighbourhoods in the city, primarily driven by development that’s chasing sites near transit,” said Woods. “We’ve already seen quite a bit of that along the Eglinton LRT.”

The proposed 365-unit development is going through the entitlement process with the City of Toronto. architectsAlliance, which designed Gairloch and Centrestone Urban Developments Inc.’s completed 383 Sorauren and Junction Point projects, is leading the project team.

Woods hopes to launch sales in late 2022 or early 2023 and to break ground in mid-2023.
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New render from http://www.gairloch.ca/15-hollis

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New renderings are updated in the database. The overall project information is also updated. The total storey count changed from 34 storeys to 45 storeys. The overall height increased from117.05m to 146.60m. The total unit count increased from 365 units to 596 units. Finally, the total parking spaces changed from 134 parking to 163 parking.

Renderings are taken from the architectural plan via rezoning submission:

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Taller by a third, wow…

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The new tower design language is a huge downgrade from the previous grid iterations. The podium is pretty bad too, but the previous versions weren’t anything to write home about either. All in all it looks like something that would have come out of G+C.

Hopefully this is just a massing model, but if not… how the multi-res mighty have fallen…
 
Applicant appealed to the OLT last August.

Report now headed to the next meeting of EYCC seeking direction to attend the OLT in opposition to this one (seems a bit late seeing as they've already held the first CMC, but I digress)

The hearing is scheduled for June '23


From the above report, we learn that staff are fine w/the height, but have many objections around form and massing.

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I have a bit of a problem squaring the circle on the City's position. On the one hand, we want 45 storey buildings here. Yet, when a proponent actually proposes one, we disagree with how they are going about it.

The lots on streets like this are not going to accommodate the point-tower over large podium type development that the City prefers. In terms of separation distances from other future towers, there are no other towers presently in the vicinity, so to me, as the first mover, this application may as well get an advantage and be permitted, with neighbouring applications, if they come, being scrutinized for separation distance.

If we want this area to develop into a high density node, shutting down an early actual application for how it might affect purely academic potential nearby future developments seems shortsighted.
 
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