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The following is a summary of the revisions which have been incorporated into the final design of our client’s proposal:
• The ground floor of the South Building has been reconfigured to further animate the proposed onsite park and the street frontage along Village Green Square. The entrance to the loading area, which previously faced Village Green Square, now faces the rear of the building, while additional retail uses have been added in its place along the street frontage. The ramp down to 2 the underground parking levels has also been moved to the rear of the building, further away from the proposed park. Additionally, the South Building residential lobby has been separated into two distinct lobbies for each tower, with the lobby for the Southeast Tower now facing the public park, and the lobby for the Southwest Tower now located on the prominent southwest corner of the Site;
• The proposed connection between the South Building and the existing office building on the Site has been removed, “opening up” the southwest corner;
• The South Building’s minimum setback from the western property line has more than doubled, increasing from 8.0 metres to 16.2 metres, which increased setback has allowed for a newly proposed outdoor POPS of approximately 619 m2 at the corner of Kennedy Road and Village Green Square, adding a significant public realm component to the intersection;
• The proposed parkland dedication in the southeast corner has decreased only slightly from 1,946 square metres to 1,922 square metres (15% of the Development Site), of which 1,281 square metres will be a stratified conveyance due to the underground garage below, while the remaining 641 square metres will be unencumbered. The proposed POPS north of the parkland dedication has decreased from 2,704 square metres to 1,966 square metres, which when combined with the parkland dedication and the new POPS in the southwest corner, results in a total public realm component of 4,507 m2 (35% of the Development Site);
• The North Building podium setback from the north lot line has increased from 0 metres to 11.8 metres, and all active uses within the North Building are set back from the north lot line by at least 20 metres, in order to provide the required derailment protection due to the adjacent Canadian Pacific Railway corridor;
• Both base buildings have been further set back from Village Green Square; the South and North Building minimum setbacks have increased from 0 metres to 4 metres and 3.1 metres respectively, in excess of the setbacks recommended in the Metrogate Redevelopment Guidelines;
• Due to the increased setbacks and public realm space, the lot coverage on the Development Site has significantly decreased from 51% to 38%;
• All above grade parking levels have been removed from the podiums of the North and South Buildings, and have been replaced with office space and residential units. In order to maintain an appropriate parking supply, the footprint of the underground garage has been extended. The number of parking spaces has decreased from 1,362 spaces to 1,033 spaces for the Development Site, which parking supply will be more than adequate to meet the parking demand;
• The height of each building on the Development Site has decreased; the Southwest and Southeast Towers have decreased from 37 and 38 storeys inclusive of a shared 7-storey podium to two 34-storey towers inclusive of a shared 5-storey podium, and the North Building has decreased from 39 storeys inclusive of a 7-storey podium to 36 storeys inclusive of a 2-storey podium;
• The total Gross Floor Area (GFA) has increased from 80,013 square metres to 80,553 square metres, and the number of residential units has increased from 930 units to 950 units; 3
• At the request of City Staff, the tower separation between the Southeast and Southwest Towers has increased from 25 metres to 28.6 metres, which separation distance now exceeds the tower separation standards outlined in the Tall Building Guidelines
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Quite the density cluster forming at Kennedy & the 401, these are still the best looking of the bunch too. However, without future plans to extend the Sheppard subway line to Kennedy, this will remain an auto-centric and what I would imagine to be a congested node.
 
I talked with someone who lives in one of the Tridel buildings, and they talked about the inconvenience of getting groceries or food without using the car. Since the closest places is to cross the 401 and go to Kennedy Commons. And for more options, would require a car or taking the bus north to Sheppard for Agincourt Mall.

When Tridel was master planning the community, there probably should've been some consideration for more retail components such as a supermarket, and some food or restaurant options, instead of the basic dental office, pharmacy and convenience store on the ground floor that is found at almost all condos.
 
Nice change in design, this cluster needed it.

Always felt it would be nice to see some designs with light features at the top on some upcoming towers in this area. So dark at night for such a key area of the City, even a couple towers Leslie and Sheppard have been designed to have a bit of soul in the dark .
 
Site Plan Approval application submitted:

Development Applications

Updated project description:
The Zoning By-law Amendment application seeks to permit the infill development of the vacant `L-shaped' portion of the site with a mixed-use development comprised of three towers (36, 34 and 31 storeys in height), a new public park (1,922 square metres) and two privately-owned publicly-accessible spaces (POPS).
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Landa acquires Toronto redev. site from KingSett for $81M

Landa Global Properties has closed on its first Toronto property, the $81-million acquisition of 2075 Kennedy Rd. from KingSett Capital, which is slated for a major redevelopment.
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Landa Global Properties has closed on its first Toronto property, the $81-million acquisition of 2075 Kennedy Rd. from KingSett Capital, which is slated for a major redevelopment.

Vancouver-based Landa plans to transform the 6.46-acre Scarborough site, currently occupied by a 200,000-square-foot office building and a parking lot, into a multi-phase, multi-tower project.

“I think Toronto is an amazing market that we have actually been observing for a very long time,” Landa chief executive officer Kevin Cheung told RENX.

The 2075 Kennedy Rd. site is Landa’s first outside of British Columbia and was driven by the opportunity to develop a complete, large-scale, mixed-use, master-planned community in an area in need of additional housing, he said.

Half the site is currently rezoned and approved for three residential towers, with more to come in a second phase. Landa is working with City of Toronto officials on a site plan application for the first phase and a rezoning application for the second.

Three condo towers planned for first phase​

The current plan includes three condominium towers of 31, 34 and 36 storeys, with an affordable housing component, in Phase 1. A total of 920 units are planned.

The proposed development will also feature 20,688 square feet of public park space, indoor and outdoor amenity spaces, street-front retail and second-floor office space.

Phase 2 will include additional residences and amenities.

KingSett had been using BDP Quadrangle as its architect as it was going through the rezoning process, but Landa has hired IBI Group as its architect for the project.

The existing office building will remain in place for now, at least until the rest of the site goes through the rezoning process. Cheung said the site isn’t in a strong office node and there are significant vacancies in the building.

Area is growing in popularity​

Cheung wants to move forward with the project as soon as possible after receiving site plan approval for the first phase, with the goal of launching sales next year and construction to follow shortly thereafter.

It’s too early to talk about timelines for the second phase at this point, he said.
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New docs posted on March 29. From the Cover letter:

The overall number of storeys for all three towers has increased; however, their metric heights have remained within the allowable height limits of the site-specific By-law 179-2022. This has been achieved by reconfiguring the floor-to-floor heights from 2.95 metres to 2.80 metres.

The South-West Tower (Tower A) has increased from 34 storeys to 38 storeys (112.0 metres plus mechanical penthouse).
The South-East Tower (Tower B) has increased from 31 storeys to 35 storeys (103.0 metres plus mechanical penthouse).
The North Tower (Tower C) has increased from 36 storeys to 39 storeys (116.5 metres plus mechanical penthouse).
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Application Details

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Architect is IBI:

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