Toronto 3100 Weston Road | 15.05m | 4s | AvranceCorp | R.A. Lumbao Architects

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Carmine Stefano Community Centre formerly St. Basil High school and the Rivermede House, which is about 57 acres in size located at Weston Rd. and Sheppard Ave W.

It appears the city lease for this site is up and the lands have recently been sold to AvranceCorp Developments. No development proposal has been submitted yet.

Part of the site is under TRCA protected slope.

City Council recently passed a motion on Sept 6, 2023 to Request to Consider Heritage Designation, to prevent demolition of the Marian Shrine of Gratitude.

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Rally held to save the Marian Shrine of Gratitude

The property where the Marian Shrine of Gratitude resides has been sold despite cries from the public for it to be saved.
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The shrine, the developer and the showdown: How a Toronto property wound up at the centre of prayers and controversy​

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The shrine, the developer and the showdown: How a Toronto property wound up at the centre of prayers and controversy

The battle to develop a 16.8-acre riverside property at 3100 Weston Rd. heads to city council on Wednesday.
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City staff are asking council to designate the property a heritage site.

If council agrees, the heritage designation will require the site’s owner to ask the city for permission to alter specific historic attributes of the Tudor Revival “Rivermede” mansion built in 1928 by financier Percy Gardiner, and the terraced backyard with a small building that was incorporated into the shrine, but was originally a pumphouse for a large swimming pool long ago covered over.

AvranceCorp, which bought the site from the Winnipeg-based religious Order of St. Basil the Great of St. Josaphat for $16.9 million, does not oppose that designation, saying it understands the historical value of the mansion currently occupied by the family of one of the developers. Its terraced garden is now behind a tall fence to keep the faithful at bay.

The Basilian fathers, before they left, dismantled the shrine that was created in 2005 after a priest injured his eye while gardening and credited his prayer to the mother of Jesus with instantly healing the wound and giving him perfect vision. The monastic order urged the faithful who had flocked to the site day and night to channel their faith and prayers into their own communities.

What AvranceCorp opposes is a city staff request — added at the urging of local councillor Anthony Perruzza as well as Carboni and other faithful — for council to ask for a report on the historical attributes of the entire site, including the adjacent Carmine Stefano Community Centre, which is being leased to the city until it opens a new community centre nearby
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I thought they owned the community centre/ former school which is a deeper parcel so why not start there. Relation to Weston Rd. is poor as is relation to the manor house.
 
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