Toronto 135 St Clair West | 161.3m | 49s | Fitzrovia | Hariri Pontarini

[Northern Light]

Fitzrova lobbying to convert redevelop this St. Clair Avenue and Avenue Road (south-east corner) office building to residential.

This has been a government of Ontario office building for as long as I can recall........

From Streetview:

 

[Towered]

We'll probably start seeing more conversions of office buildings that aren't in the downtown core...

 

[ProjectEnd]

Built for $2.4M in 1964:

 

[Northern Light]

Some additional detail on what's proposed here from the Globe and Mail:

Toronto real estate developer Fitzrovia launches $1-billion fund to build up city’s rental stock

Backed by some of the country’s largest pension plans, Fitzrovia recently acquired the rights to redevelop a 14-storey office building on St. Clair Avenue West into rental apartments

www.theglobeandmail.com

Key bits:

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So not a 'conversion' here except in use; this is proposed as a tear-down and new build, office out- purpose-built rental in..........height up.

 

[Midtown Hank]

Have always admired this office building. Reminds me of a mini TD Centre (yes, using my imagination).

 

[taal]

I've always loved this building It'll be sad but I bet the city will approve this. Where is the ministry of environment moving ?

 

[YIMBY519]

I've always loved this building It'll be sad but I bet the city will approve this. Where is the ministry of environment moving ?

It looks like consolidating in 40 St. Clair West which has some provincial tenants already: https://www.merx.com/colliersprojec...air-West-Consolidation-Project-RFP/0000271053

 

[Northern Light]

I bring news UT.

Height: 49s

Architect: Hariri Pontatrini

Ya read about this first, here, UT.

@Paclo , @HousingNowTO , @3Dementia

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Site Plan:

Ground Floor Plan:

Stats:

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Elevator Ratio: 6 elevators to 631 rental units for 1 elevator per 105.2 units.

 

[innsertnamehere]

50st with nothing but a streetcar?

 

[ProjectEnd]

50st with nothing but a streetcar?

The Number 13 begs to differ!

 

[3Dementia]

HPA...

Link

 

[Northern Light]

50st with nothing but a streetcar?

It's a ~700M walk to St. Clair Stn. (~1.1km to St.Clair West Stn)

It's certainly a stretch......

 

[canarob]

This is quite the dog's breakfast. It looks like four different buildings mashed together.

 

[A Torontonian Now]

This is reasonably attractive and would be fine, even at this location (long walk, but walkable to subway, with ROW streetcar) if it were replacing a 2-storey plaza. But it's less supportable displacing all that embedded carbon and modernist heritage.

Can we just leave this poor building alone?

 

[Midtown Hank]

This is reasonably attractive and would be fine, even at this location (long walk, but walkable to subway, with ROW streetcar) if it were replacing a 2-storey plaza. But it's less supportable displacing all that embedded carbon and modernist heritage.

Can we just leave this poor building alone?

It definitely has architectural nostalgia, but like so many class B & C office buildings it has lost its economic justification. It would be terrible for it to just sit there and remain empty.

49 storeys is total overkill for that intersection, but overkill seems to be the new norm.