Looks great actually. Perfect for this site plus a good combination of residential and retail and gives Queen Street a lovely sreetscape in a stretch that needs it.
 
This is a case of an application/proposal getting demonstrably better through the planning process.

Refer back to page 1 where a good portion of the heritage property was going to be absorbed into the new building.

Now we have complete preservation.

The new building works as well; nice scale and proportion; and shows a solid streetscape plan for this section of Queen with wide sidewalks and trees!
 
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YWCA shelter for homeless women on Queen Street East in the Beach extends lease until at least October of this year – Beach Metro Community News

By MICHELLE McCANN The City of Toronto has extended the lease for the YWCA-run women’s shelter in the Beach, temporarily located in the former Days Inn Hotel on Queen Street East, until at least October of this year. Nina Gorka, Director of Shelters, Girls’ and Family Programs for the YWCA...
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The City of Toronto has extended the lease for the YWCA-run women’s shelter in the Beach, temporarily located in the former Days Inn Hotel on Queen Street East, until at least October of this year.

Nina Gorka, Director of Shelters, Girls’ and Family Programs for the YWCA Toronto, said that the original plan was to move back into the Davenport shelter by August 2021. But the city informed the YWCA last week that the construction work at the site had run into delays.

“So, we’re working with that date [October] right now and, you know, we’re happy in the home that we have,” Gorka said of the pushed back schedule. “So, for us, it’s not a bad thing necessarily.”

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Bradford said the Days Inn site was always a temporary solution and that the property owner, The Sud Group, is continuing with its future development plans for the land.

“I have been working closely with them and the local community on the proposal as this develops and we are expecting to see more details in the near future,” Bradford said of the proposed development which has sought a six-storey, 110-unit residential building at 1684-1702 Queen St. E.

That building site is on the north side of Queen between Orchard Park Boulevard and Penny Lane and includes land to the east of the hotel on which the Murphy’s Law Pub and Brett’s Ice Cream buildings are located. The front of the Murphy’s Law building appears to be included in the architectural plans submitted to the City of Toronto as part of the rezoning application.
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Resubmission from June 23, 2021:

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YWCA emergency homeless shelter for women expects to leave Days Inn site in the Beach by end of year at latest – Beach Metro Community News

By ALAN SHACKLETON The YWCA’s temporary emergency shelter for homeless women on Queen Street East in the Beach will continue to operate for those in need even though construction work has started on the condo project which will eventually lead to the demolition in the building. The shelter is...
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The YWCA’s temporary emergency shelter for homeless women on Queen Street East in the Beach will continue to operate for those in need even though construction work has started on the condo project which will eventually lead to the demolition in the building.

The shelter is located in the former Days Inn Hotel at 1684 Queen St. E. The YWCA moved into the building courtesy of a short-term City of Toronto lease in spring of 2020.

The need to set up in the former hotel was as a result of extensive renovation work being done to the YWCA’s existing emergency shelter on Davenport Avenue and Dupont Street area.

That work is now nearing completion, and the move back to the site could come as early as the middle of next month.

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“We are dependent on construction and the city (for permits), but are set to relocate to Davenport in mid November,” said Gorka. “It depends on construction at the Davenport facility.”

Though there is digging and site clearance going on around the Days Inn site, it has had very little impact on the shelter’s staff or residents, she said.

“To be honest, for a condo development it has not had any real impact on our day-to-day operations,” said Gorka.

Beaches-East York Councillor Brad Bradford said the city’s lease on the former hotel runs until March of 2022 and there are options to extend it if need be.

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The hotel site will and surrounding lands to the east and west will be part of a six-storey mixed use building providing an estimated 110 residential units. The plan incorporates the preservation of the building that is now home to Murphy’s Law pub on the corner of Queen Street East and Kingston Road.

Bradford said demolition of the hotel will likely take place next spring.
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Site Plan Approval application submitted Nov. 7:

Development Applications

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Site Plan Approval for a 6-storey mixed-use building having a non-residential gross floor area of 1592 square metres, and a residential gross floor area of 7847 square metres. 81 residential dwelling units are proposed.
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New rendering updated in the database! The total height went from 23.50m to 24.5m. The total unit count decreased from 82 units to 81 units. And finally the total parking space increased from 61 parking spaces to 126 parking spaces.

The rendering is taken from the architectural plan via Site Plan Approval:

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Art Tsai said:
New rendering updated in the database! The total height went from 23.50m to 24.5m. The total unit count decreased from 82 units to 81 units. And finally the total parking space increased from 61 parking spaces to 126 parking spaces.

The rendering is taken from the architectural plan via Site Plan Approval:

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That's quite a jump in the number of parking spots!
 
lol what is up with the parking? Why double it? That's like 1.5 spaces per unit! Perhaps Green P is contracting some space here or something?

Edit: nope, architectural plans are showing 121 resident parking spaces and 5 visitor spaces. The building is very heavy on larger units, with over 60% of units being 2+bedrooms... but still.
 
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lol what is up with the parking? Why double it? That's like 1.5 spaces per unit! Perhaps Green P is contracting some space here or something?

Edit: nope, architectural plans are showing 121 resident parking spaces and 5 visitor spaces.
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I was initially surprised by the high number of parking spaces! It should be noted in the architectural plan there was a brief asterisk description:

"Remaining of the provided parking spaces will be provided with conduit rough-ins for future conversion to actual EV charging stations"

I guess they are thinking much ahead of the future!
 
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