Toronto 140 The Queensway | 23.17m | 6s | Houselink & Mainstay | Montgomery Sisam

[AlbertC]

Houselink and Mainstay Community Housing – Montgomery Sisam

www.montgomerysisam.com

Houselink and Mainstay Community Housing is Toronto’s largest non-profit supportive housing agency, and currently manages 58 residential locations and more than 1,050 units across the City of Toronto. This project is located in Etobicoke on a lot along the Queensway, within walking distance to the waterfront as well as the Humber River. The building’s main objectives are to provide residents with a sense of comfort, social integration, connection, privacy, and support. This is accomplished by creating an intimate entry and internal experience, carving a massing that harmonizes with the residential neighbourhood, ensuring that spaces connect with the outdoors, and designing for a supportive environment for vulnerable residents living with mental health conditions and accessibility issues.

The building accommodates 38 studio and 1-bedroom units, as well as administrative suites, laundry facilities, and a multi-purpose room with kitchenette to support food preparation programs. The ground floor provides a discrete entrance that leads to a generous fire-side lounge by the main elevators, offering residents a sense of security, social connection and community. The L-shaped footprint allows for a small protected rain garden at the rear, a space for gathering away from the busy main street. The courtyard is partially covered and is equipped with native species requiring minimal maintenance.

The building is clad in a light standing seam metal on the residential floors, while the ground floor is clad in tonal charcoal architectural block with a warm wood soffit at the main entrance. While the architectural volumes are simple, the building expression is given character with rhythmically placed square windows.

Current view of the site:

 

[Towered]

Street level needs a serious re-do.

 

[interchange42]

I wish this were being assembled with the property to the east of it, the pair would make a better replacement for the site as a whole. While this is not a stretch of the Queensway with much pedestrian presence, yes, for its sake the front should be reworked, with the garage entry moved around to the lane at the rear… but maybe they're trying to get a better garden at the back away from the noise of the street? It's a pretty busy stretch there. That said, there's a good amount of public green space nearby. Anyway, good to see *something* coming here.

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[AlbertC]

City app is in:

Development Applications

City Planning COA Application Information Center

app.toronto.ca

140 THE QUEENSWAY
Ward 3: Etobicoke-Lakeshore

The proposal consists of one 6-storey apartment building. The ground floor is designed to meet tenant and building needs and will consist of both indoor and secured outdoor amenity space, an office, long-term bicycle and motorized mobility device (scooter) parking, laundry, and waste ollection. Floors 2-6 will consist of the apartments. A total of 38 1-bedroom apartment units is proposed, with 8 units on each floor from the second to the fifth floor, and 6 units on floor six. A green roof is proposed on the north end of floor six

 

[Paclo]

Technical resubmission here. Demolition & Building Permits have been applied for as of July 2024.