Northern Construction Update: Eglinton, NY Centre, Sheppard, Scar Centre

[Archivist]

Here's an update on new projects in the north of the city. Did a bit of cycling yesterday.

Eglinton & Yonge area

Minto Midtown, lovely as usual.

Chateau Royale on Mt. Pleasant. Ugly as sin, but no necessarily inappropriate for the neighbourhood.

900 Mount Pleasant. Perhaps less ugly than Chateau Royale, but to my mind more objectionable for the awful, thoughtless way it meets the street.

1000 Mt Pleasant - digging is underway.

88 0n Broadway.

North York Centre

Meridian.

Continental and the C-Condo. How could you come up with two bad names for a single development? These buildings are somehow overwhelming and ugly.

Mona Lisa. Site prep under way.

Pulses. I thought these would be uglier than they seem to be turning out. The renderings were atrocious, but in real life they don't look as bad as I would have suspected.

Byng Rowhouses. I didn't recall seeing these before, and they seem well done, understated for North York, and quite charming. A nice little surprise.

Grade Triomphe. Seems to be two buildings going up here, with a kind of join on Yonge Street. Though the name and the design of these buildings are both quite bad, I do admire the retail, which is divided into a million tiny little storefronts. I've always thought that's what was possibly a problem with condo retail. Anyways, I took a few photos of the retail in the finished units, because it seems to me this is actually quite lively and useful. Who could hate a building with a store like "Sushi Bong" in it, anyways?

Dia. Though this is finished, I took a few snaps anyways.

Duca Office Building. Above ground.

Platinum 2 - Very very much like the first.

Sheppard Corridor

New retail and a few others on Sheppard. I quite like the three storey white affair. The Rona is fairly unpleasant, though.

Arc condos. Above ground now. I was surprised at where this was, I thought it would take up part of the parking lot, but really, it's way over by the subway station. It could be connected under ground, but I assume it won't be.

The Bayview. I don't recall hearing about this, but the site seems so large! All the renderings I saw were only partial. It will be ugly, but how ugly? How big?

Concord Park Place. Some movement on the site.

St. Gabriel Village. God, these are ugly. Shane Baghai is like a war criminal or something. At least he's never built downtown.

Aria condos. I guess this will be two towers. Some movement on site.

Legacy at Heron's Hill. Just a big mess now.

Atria I Proposal. This has probably been mentioned, but I don't remember it. A fairly big development on the site of this four storey building. Is this not the building that won the GG Medal in 1982 - or am I confusing it with another? It's by Thom Partnership. On that basis alone, it would be a shame to lose it.

Perfect 10 Condos. Nothing happening on the site, but thought I would post the rendering anyways.

Hellenic Centre. A bit off of Shepard (actually, a lot off) but thought I would post anyways.

Scarborough Centre

Eq 1 and 2 - bordering on Albert Campbell Square. Which was a bit moribund, even on a nice day.

Eq - Red. Not sure, but I assume this is what this is. Just across from the other two Eq thingies.

Altitude. All done now.

 

[Mongo]

Atria I Proposal. This has probably been mentioned, but I don't remember it. A fairly big development on the site of this four storey building. Is this not the building that won the GG Medal in 1982 - or am I confusing it with another? It's by Thom Partnership. On that basis alone, it would be a shame to lose it.

Huh. I worked in this building, in the Sun Life IT department -- for three years, as I recall. Hard to believe that this (fairly new) building will be demolished.

Bill

 

[simply Dan]

Great photos! The new Hellenic Centre looks promising - sort of like a consulate or embassy building. Where exactly is it loctaed?

 

[joeto11]

Wow thanks for the great update!!

 

[Hypnotoad]

Great update.

Read that Arc will be connected underground to the subway, but not sure if that is current or not.

Nice to see some significant changes from earlier photo tours, including just one month ago.

 

[scarberiankhatru]

The Hellenic Cultural Centre is at Warden & Ellesmere.

I'm semi-sure that the Atria proposal is going west of the building whose fate is questioned, on the parking lot/grass at the SE corner of Sheppard & Consumers, just west of the Atria driveway...at least, it would make no sense to demolish one building when the complex includes a large grass lot.

In case anyone mentions it, the DUCA "office" building is just the two-storey bit fronting Yonge - the tower behind it will be a seniors home. C/Continental is almost too weird to be ugly. Pulse turned out worse than I expected...the towers are very squat and the fake second storey above the "prime retail" is just silly. But not as silly as calling a ~20 storey building "Altitude"!

Albert Campbell Square is always empty unless there's some kind of function going on, like a Tamil Tiger rally...there's nothing around there so the only people you'll see are scurrying from the office buildings or the parking lot to the mall, usually around lunch (it would be a million times busier if they built a library or community centre or something - a half dozen condos won't add nearly enough people to make it seem inhabited).

 

[yyzer]

Great update, thx!
The Hellenic Cultural Centre looks great - never heard of it till today...

 

[marcus_a_j]

Thanks for the updates

Eq - Red. Not sure, but I assume this is what this is. Just across from the other two Eq thingies.

This site is actually for another development called Centro. Red is in the same block as EQ1 and 2.

 

[Hydrogen]

Thanks for the wide-ranging update.

Dia looks great, and the podium of Minto Midtown should be duplicated and sent to replace the podium of RoCP.

 

[cruzin4u]

That was quite the cycling trip! I don't bother cycling in the GTA, too dangerous .

There's a lot of parking space left, I'm wondering if we'll see Arc 2 or something else in the future.

On the proposed Sheppard site, there is a lot of land + parking space as scarb mentioned. I just took a look and it's a huge lot.

Thanks for the update Archivist...

I actually like the C-Condo!

 

[Hypnotoad]

I actually like the C-Condo!

Haha, I'm not sure I like them but when I last visited the area I had a hard time not taking pictures of them. Can't explain it.

Thanks Archivist, this was a great update. Line of the week must be "Shane Baghai is like a war criminal or something"

 

[ahmedyusali]

Thanks for this photo update.. Scarbrough is getting potential downtown, I heard lot of condo builders submitted their application at city hall. if all those applications approved, scarbrough will be thirty downtown in toronto.

 

[Archivist]

Thanks for comments and clarifications.

Re: Atria proposal. I imagine that what scarberiankhatru is true; there is an awful lot of space on the site available, so hopefull the existing four storey will stay in place.

Re: the podium of Minto Midtown should be duplicated and sent to replace the podium of RoCP from Hydrogen. Absolutely. Now, that's a podium!

Re: Arc. It would be interesting to have something on the new line already connected into the station. Arc was originally planned as two phases, so perhaps this will happen. Maybe the whole lot will be filled one day and there will an indoor link to the mall.

Re: C-Condos/Continental. Pleased to hear that someone likes it. I suppose they could be considered a nod to Park Willow, one of the area's few early highrises.

 

[lister]

I actually like Chateau Royale and 900 Mt Pleasant far more than any boxy all-glass office tower wannabe condo. Bleah.

 

[WooWah]

Thanks for the great update!

It's so easy to forget about all the developments that happen up north. North York looks insanely different than I how I saw it last.