[ShonTron]

City staff are recommending approval of an 8-storey, 109-unit building with ground-floor retail, along with relocation and restoration of a heritage farmhouse.

The site is just south of Queen Street, between two commercial plazas on the north and single-family and semi-detached houses to the south, so this is decent infill in an area with decent transit and not far from downtown.

As there hasn't been any marketing of this site so far, I suspect it's purpose-built rental.

 

[ShonTron]

Architect is Technoarch, a local Brampton firm.

Work – technoarch

www.technoarch.ca

 

[Paclo]

OPA/ZBA approved by council in April 2022.

SPA under review.

Renderings from the 2nd SPA submission:

 

[Transportfan]

I think the only heritage feature of this "farmhouse" is that it lasted so long close to downtown in a city of 600,000 people.

 

[egotrippin]

I'm usually one to advocate for heritage preservation, but I struggle to see much architectural or historic value in this one. It's in pretty rough shape inside and out with relatively few interesting features. I'm wondering if the money spent on moving and rehabbing this one wouldn't be better spent on something else. Maybe a community garden as a nod to the site's former use as a farm?