[artyboy123]

Taken from DevApp:

"To alter the existing three-storey mixed-use building by constructing a three-storey rear addition and a complete fourth-storey addition. In total, there would be 4 commercial units on the ground floor and 8 residential units on the second, third, and fourth levels."

DevApp: https://www.toronto.ca/city-governm...nt/application-details/?id=5266118&pid=164835

Rendering taken from arch plan via minor variance:

 

[AlbertC]

This is for the northeast corner of Bloor West & Delaware where "The Rooster", a former local favourite spot for rotisserie chicken, used to be before they suffered fire damage.

It's a fairly well travelled corner as Delaware also leads into the secondary entrance for Ossington station. There's also a couple other businesses in those retail spaces along Delaware including Bakerbots Baking.

This stretch of Bloor West does have some cases of extremely slow moving derelict properties though, as seen with 918 Bloor W (one block east), and 895 Bloor W (on the southside of the street, closer to Ossington). So hopefully this project can be done within a decade or so.

 

[AlbertC]

 

[AlbertC]

The boarded up corner building has become increasingly decrepit

 

[denfromoakvillemilton]

Hopefully, this gets started soon. There's a lot of surprisingly abandoned buildings on major streets in Toronto.

 

[AlbertC]

Yes, Bloor West has a fair share of them abandoned and underutilized. There's another one block east on the NE corner of Bloor & Concord, one on the southside of Bloor close to Ossington, and one on the SW corner of Bloor & Grace.

 

[PMT]

 

[AlbertC]

Work starting can't come soon enough!

 

[AlbertC]

Application Details

www.toronto.ca

 

[Towered]

Meanwhile, the relocated Rooster (on Yonge, south of St. Clair) has quietly shuttered...

 

[AlbertC]

Meanwhile, the relocated Rooster (on Yonge, south of St. Clair) has quietly shuttered...

Yonge & St Clair didn't sound like the right market for them. The former location just outside Ossington station had more regular foot traffic, more diverse demographics, and people on the go who wanted to grab a meal to bring home after work and such.

 

[Towered]

Yonge & St Clair didn't sound like the right market for them. The former location just outside Ossington station had more regular foot traffic, more diverse demographics, and people on the go who wanted to grab a meal to bring home after work and such.

Spot on. They were a cheap but solid home-cooked, comfort food take out option for a bit more of a blue collar area. I went there for years and it was always busy, and the quality was consistent. On a whim I once visited the newer location, and despite it being rush hour, there was nobody in there, and the offerings behind the glass looked depressingly spartan and stale. I inquired about the ribs, since that's what the original store was known for, and the lone employee who lazily sauntered out of the kitchen upon my arrival, sheepishly shrugged and said, "we don't have any."

I never went back. I could practically smell the mismanagement.

 

[denfromoakvillemilton]

Let's get this one moving.

 

[AlbertC]

Spot on. They were a cheap but solid home-cooked, comfort food take out option for a bit more of a blue collar area. I went there for years and it was always busy, and the quality was consistent. On a whim I once visited the newer location, and despite it being rush hour, there was nobody in there, and the offerings behind the glass looked depressingly spartan and stale. I inquired about the ribs, since that's what the original store was known for, and the lone employee who lazily sauntered out of the kitchen upon my arrival, sheepishly shrugged and said, "we don't have any."

I never went back. I could practically smell the mismanagement.

They should've looked for another space along Bloor between Christie to Dundas West, or on College, Dundas. Danforth may have been okay too if they wanted to pivot to a different area where they wouldn't have as much competition for what they're serving. Even Yonge & Eg would have been better than Deer Park just from the much higher population and pedestrian traffic in a faster pace urban environment.