^ from that:

- The Church Street Development (CSD) will house the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, the School of Nutrition, the School of Occupational and Public Health and the Midwifery Education Program from the Faculty of Community Services, and a student residence.
- To help address the need for more residence space and to optimize density on the site, the building plans include approximately 250 student residence spaces in keeping with the university’s goal to provide an additional 2,000 new residence spaces by 2020. Ryerson is actively seeking a private-sector organization to partner with to develop the residence portion of the project.
- The estimated cost of the academic portion of the project is $84 million, of which the Ontario government has provided a $56.4 million grant. Construction is expected to begin later in 2015 with the building completed by fall 2018.
 
sounds like it is going to be a huuuuggge building. I expect 4-5 floors of classrooms and 15-20 floors of residences.
 
I would not be shocked if they tried to rope in a big retailer to anchor the project and help defray costs as per the private secotr partner language. Same thing they did at MLG and the Business building. The question is what they might put in there. I bet a toned down version of a big box store like Walmart or Target. Certainly won't be another grocery store.
 
Safe choice by Ryerson, as Perkins + Will have quite an extensive portfolio of institutional buildings. They also design quite striking interior spaces. Though personally not a fan of their UW Engineering 5. Hopefully some warmer materials on the podium portion and an engaging streetscape.
 
There is a thread for the Dundas and Jarvis building, but there's been no news since Feb 2013, and no renderings yet, so I'm not surprised you haven't heard of it yet!

Here's the whole article covering this one:

Construction on the $104.4 million building is expected to begin in late 2015.
March 13, 2014
By: Ryersonian Staff

Ryerson University has officially announced plans for its new health science building at 300 Church St.

The property is currently a parking lot beside the Interior Design building referred to as the Church Street Development (CSD).

Julia Hanigsberg, vice-president administration and finance, met with campus media at the offices of Perkins+Will, the architects on the project. The Toronto, Dundas and Vancouver offices of the architecture firm will be working on the building. They are working towards designing “the healthiest building in Canada” in terms of sustainable design.

The base building for the health science programs will be eight storeys while the residence tower atop it could be 20 storeys or higher, making it comparable in height to another residence building to be constructed on Jarvis Street.

“It’s going to be a big building on campus, one of biggest,” said Andrew Frontini, design director and lead for the project, adding that the building will be about 172,000 square feet.

The project budget is slated as $104.4 million. In 2011, the former provincial government invested $56.4 million into a new health science building, which will cover part of the cost. The remaining $48 million will come from Ryerson. The Ryersonian initially reported that the building would cost a total of $84 million.

The building is set to include a green roofscape and connections to other building on campus, and there will be extensive landscaping. It will house health science programs such as midwifery, nursing, nutrition and occupational and public health.

The early building construction is slated to start in September 2015 and main construction in February 2016. It is expected that students would be able to move into the residence portion in August 2018.

“We’re creating a building you and I will occupy,” Ryerson president Sheldon Levy was quoted saying at one of the visioning meeting with the architects. “But we’re designing a building for generations to come that will help build a better community for Ryerson.”

The main faculty of science building will be built on another of Ryerson’s properties, 202 Jarvis St. The current faculty of science building is located in 285 Victoria St.

“Ryerson prides itself as a city-building university and we’re trying to capture that,” said Frontini.

There will also be facilities for food services and student engagement, a “fabrication zone” housing 3-D printers and other technology, and university administration including university advancement and communications, government and community engagement. The residence component will have at least 250 beds and there will be four levels of underground parking.

“When people are moving from new centres of growth to the heart of campus, they will be passing thorough our site,” said Frontini.

The firm is currently in the middle of schematic designs, which they expect to finish in June of this year, at which time they expect to have a rendering of the building. Afterwards, they will speak with engineers and make plans for sustainable design and they expect to have more design plans later this year.

In the presentation, the firm emphasized a “pedestrian-friendly public realm” and that they want to create a neighbourhood in the downtown campus area.

http://www.ryersonian.ca/?p=15542

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“Ryerson prides itself as a city-building university and we’re trying to capture that,” said Frontini.
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Ha! That's hilarious. If by build cities, they mean make streets dead with no retail, then sure, they do a great job. They have improved on this on their last building, but that's all.
 
This must be another proposal, is there a thread for this one?

270 Church Street
Tor & E.York District

To re-zone the subject lands owned by Ryerson University to construct a 27 storey multi-use building containing 100 dwelling units, non-residental uses on the ground floor, and 167 parking spaces below grade.
Proposed Use --- # of Storeys --- # of Units ---
Applications:
Type Number Date Submitted Status
Rezoning 14 157484 STE 27 OZ May 15, 2014 Under Review
 
That's the Health Sciences building I believe. its the parking lot on Church just north of Dundas.

Its actually a really cheap lot on weekends, $5 and only a 2 minute walk from the Eaton centre. (compare to parking at the eaton centre which can run you closer to $15 on the weekend)
 
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Ha! That's hilarious. If by build cities, they mean make streets dead with no retail, then sure, they do a great job. They have improved on this on their last building, but that's all.
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True. Church from Dundas to Gerrard looks boring. Plenty of buildings, but nothing even tries to engage people and the streets. Everything is inward looking, mostly concrete walls and closed windows. The long glass building just north of Esso station is particularly bad - it takes almost an entire block yet does nothing to the street. Not even a coffee shop.

They could have a small square in front of one of those buildings for the students to gather, read and talk, which will bring a lot of life to that section of Church st. Very disappointed. To me this section of Church is always dead. Ryerson didn't build the city, instead it killed that sector for sure.
 
There aren't many students out on that side of the school, most are over by gould and victoria. Thats the centre of campus, and is reflected by the pedestrianized area, skating rink, etc.
 
found this on the Ryerson website, is there anyway someone could go by and snap a pic of the elevation? I'm really interested in this development and won't be downtown for a while.

CSD.jpg
 
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