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333 WILSON AVE
Ward 6: York Centre

Development Applications

Project description:
Zoning By Law Amendment application to permit a proposed 12-storey mixed-use building containing a total of 185 new residential dwelling units. The proposal would have a total gross floor area of 18,850 square metres, comprised of 14,000 square metres of residential GFA, and 4,850 square metres of non-residential GFA

This site is currently home to a 6-storey commercial building.

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Aerial pic of the above site:

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Site is 2600M2/ ~28000ft2

So the above reads as a 2-storey commercial podium if the building occupies the entire lot.

If there's outdoor amenity/visitor or commercial parking at-grade, could be 3-storeys commercial with the balance of the building being residential.

Of note the existing building has a surface area of 480m2, so at 6s, ~2800m2 of commercial space. So this would actually represent an increase in commercial space over existing.

The area is comparatively devoid of meaningful park space, but wouldn't be inclined to support another meaningless 2,000ft2 park on this property.
 
This redevelopment will likely be under GreatWise Development - headquartered at 333 Wilson Ave Unit 200,... along with numerous other companies run by the same individual under the G&S Group of Companies which includes G&S Regal (Property) Management,.... basically modern day corporate slumlord who rent about half of their units in bulk to TCHC (Toronto Community Housing Corp)

G&S Regal Rental Portfolio includes numerous not so regally managed apartment buildings in St.JamesTown - https://gsrentals.ca/
240 Wellesley Street East
260 Wellesley Street East ***
280 Wellesley Street East ***
650 Parliament Street ***
77 Howard Street

***
"Hundreds of Toronto residents in the cold after pipe burst"
https://www.blogto.com/city/2019/01/1000-toronto-residents-cold-after-apartment-power-failure/
"Residents of St. James Town highrise without water, heat after safety inspection"
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/resident...-water-heat-after-safety-inspection-1.4287601
"Landlords should keep better tabs on electrical systems, St. James Town report says"
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toro...l-systems-st-james-town-report-says-1.5108354

Heath Residences - 325 Bogert Avenue,
Rosslyn Residences - 5950 Bathurst Street


Apart from a few townhomes in Ottawa, GreatWise Development haven't actually built anything - so this could be a UpZone-to-Flip exercise. Architect here might be Core Architect or IBI Group.

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This redevelopment will likely be under GreatWise Development - headquartered at 333 Wilson Ave Unit 200,... along with numerous other companies run by the same individual under the G&S Group of Companies which includes G&S Regal (Property) Management,.... basically modern day corporate slumlord who rent about half of their units in bulk to TCHC (Toronto Community Housing Corp)

G&S Regal Rental Portfolio includes numerous not so regally managed apartment buildings in St.JamesTown - https://gsrentals.ca/
240 Wellesley Street East
260 Wellesley Street East ***
280 Wellesley Street East ***
650 Parliament Street ***
77 Howard Street

***
"Hundreds of Toronto residents in the cold after pipe burst"
https://www.blogto.com/city/2019/01/1000-toronto-residents-cold-after-apartment-power-failure/
"Residents of St. James Town highrise without water, heat after safety inspection"
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/resident...-water-heat-after-safety-inspection-1.4287601
"Landlords should keep better tabs on electrical systems, St. James Town report says"
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toro...l-systems-st-james-town-report-says-1.5108354

Heath Residences - 325 Bogert Avenue,
Rosslyn Residences - 5950 Bathurst Street


Apart from a few townhomes in Ottawa, GreatWise Development haven't actually built anything - so this could be a UpZone-to-Flip exercise. Architect here might be Core Architect or IBI Group.

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Want to applaud you for the informative contribution. Couldn't not put sad at the supposition on offer!
 
The existing office building is the nicest architecture within a half mile radius.

That is hardly a robust defense in light of the surrounding architecture.

The site is ripe for intensification.
Which the siting of the existing building within the lot makes quite difficult.

The existing building is also far from a stunner.

That said, @sunnyraytoronto has provided info on the likely proponent............and that is not at all encouraging.
 
This area needs all the TLC it can get, so simply for that I already approve.

I'd never live here though, this thing is literally kissing the 401.
 
This area needs all the TLC it can get, so simply for that I already approve.

I'd never live here though, this thing is literally kissing the 401.

Kissing the 401? Before the widening of the MacdonaldCartierFreeway to become express-collector system of Highway 401,... some of the local houses west of Bathurst St were literally on the highway on-ramps and off-ramps! Would you let little Johnny play on his driveway? Image shows MacdonaldCartierFreeway interchange at Bathurst and Wilson in 1960 - subject site is just one block west of Bathurst Wilson southwest corner.
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source: http://jpeg2000.eloquent-systems.com/toronto.html?image=ser12/s0012_fl1960_it0147.jp2

Google Earth image now:
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Kissing the 401? Before the widening of the MacdonaldCartierFreeway to become express-collector system of Highway 401,... some of the local houses west of Bathurst St were literally on the highway on-ramps and off-ramps! Would you let little Johnny play on his driveway? Image shows MacdonaldCartierFreeway interchange at Bathurst and Wilson in 1960 - subject site is just one block west of Bathurst Wilson southwest corner.
The marked-up 1950 aerial photo shows that these bizarre puny on/off ramps were just a repurposed existing street. Surely this wasn't best practices for highway engineering even in 1950.
source: http://jpeg2000.eloquent-systems.com/toronto.html?image=ser12/s0012_fl1950_it0008f.jp2
 

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Two of them still exists. The one on Northbound Bathurst has little change.
The one onto Wilson was given a third lane and made one way.
Some of the others would be nice to still have.
 
Always happy to see new development. Unfortunately, like a lot of North York developments, especially on Wilson, the street level will do little to animate the dreary pedestrian stretch.
 

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