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The lobbyist registry shows us that Spotlight developments is looking at a new 4-tower plan for this site. This is the s/w corner of Black Creek Drive and Lawrence Ave. West.

Details for Subject Matter Registration: SM32109​


Decision(s) or issue(s) to be lobbied

We intend to lobby with respect to planning applications, particularly pertaining to proposed development at 1635 Lawrence Ave West where Spotlight Development is planning an infill multi-phased condominium development consisting of 4 towers.

Currently:

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Taken from https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/1635-Lawrence-Ave-W-Toronto-ON/22096467/

Aerial view:

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Total site area: 148,000ft2

or about 1.38ha
 
Another Lobbyist Registry Entry on this one..........seemingly taking it a new direction.

Details for Subject Matter Registration: SM32319​

Decision(s) or issue(s) to be lobbied

Proposed redevelopment of the commercial property at 1635 Lawrence Avenue West, for Mixed Use including Affordable Ownership and Affordable Rental housing

Former Councillor Peter Milczyn is the lobbyist on this one.
 
Wow so that's what Peter Milczyn is doing these days? I never would've guessed that in a million years.
 

Lawrence Affordable Home Ownership

Status: Under Development


Location: 1635 Lawrence Ave W, Toronto
Project Type: Mixed-Use
Suites: 1,200
The proposal is for an infill multi-phased condominium consisting of 4 towers and approximately 1,000,000 SF of G
FA with a central courtyard as part of the vision for the site. Mid-rise development is proposed along Lawrence Avenue and towers are proposed along Black Creek Drive, ranging in height from 15 to 35 stories.



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Lawrence Affordable Home Ownership

Status: Under Development


Location: 1635 Lawrence Ave W, Toronto
Project Type: Mixed-Use
Suites: 1,200
The proposal is for an infill multi-phased condominium consisting of 4 towers and approximately 1,000,000 SF of G
FA with a central courtyard as part of the vision for the site. Mid-rise development is proposed along Lawrence Avenue and towers are proposed along Black Creek Drive, ranging in height from 15 to 35 stories.



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Rather bizarre to read 15 to 35 storeys, and then have those images to try to work that out. Looks more like 15 to 20 storeys.

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Developer teams with non-profits to build towers serving ‘deepest threshold of affordability’


April 21, 2022

Toronto developer Sherry Larjani says she wants to change that dynamic and is planning to turn the 3.5-acre plaza into a unique project featuring a mix of affordable ownership condos and affordable rentals — mostly the former.

Her proposal, which still requires zoning and site plan approval from the city, has several unique elements.

Larjani, founder and president of Spotlight Development, plans to construct a project — four buildings 18 to 33 storeys, with about 1,470 residential units featuring two-, three- and four-bedrooms — that is completely non-profit.

“We’re going to cross-subsidize anything we make from any portion that is market (units) and bring that back into the project to serve the deepest threshold of affordability,” Larjani said in an interview.

She says she’d like to have as many as 70 per cent of the condo units be affordable, though she adds she can’t make that promise at this early stage in the process.

The units will also target specific groups in the city.

For example, 10 per cent of the residences would be set aside for the Black community, 10 per cent for Indigenous people, along with units catering to others including seniors, veterans, newcomers to Canada and families.

Among the other planned services are programs for youths and seniors and non-profit daycare spots.

(Also planned for the site is about 35,870 square feet of retail. The entire project is expected to cost between $850 million to $1 billion to build, depending on construction costs, the developer says.)

Another novel aspect of the project is the fact Larjani is teaming up with several non-profit agencies in the city to deliver the affordable units.

Spotlight has created its own, new non-profit arm and will partner with affordable home ownership organization Habitat for Humanity; non-profit housing provider WoodGreen Community Services; the BlackNorth Initiative, a group offering an array of programs including a home ownership bridge initiative that helps Black people purchase property; and Trillium Housing, which helps would-be homeowners who aren’t as well-off to buy a house.

 
Adding this to the watch-list... but with a certain amount of "side-eye" around the math...

"Spotlight has created its own, new non-profit arm and will partner with affordable home ownership organization Habitat for Humanity; non-profit housing provider WoodGreen Community Services; the BlackNorth Initiative, a group offering an array of programs including a home ownership bridge initiative that helps Black people purchase property; and Trillium Housing, which helps would-be homeowners who aren’t as well-off to buy a house."

"The entire project is expected to cost between $850 million to $1 billion to build, depending on construction costs, the developer says."

Just eyeballing it - based on location and partner mix - and that's going to be a pretty complex Jenga-Game on the "Affordable-Housing Finance" side... unless they have a very good relationship with the Federal Housing Minister... who happens to be the Local MP.
 

A multi tower development, 1635 Lawrence Ave. W. is tackling the housing crisis by proposing to build four towers of mainly affordable housing in the city's underserved northwest. Located at Lawrence and Black Creek Dr, currently, the site is a dated 3.5-acre strip mall plaza and once completed the area will be transformed into a beautiful residential area including a substantial outdoor courtyard amenity in the centre of the project with various indoor amenity and residential programming wrapping around it and retail at grade. The towers will have more than 1,400 units and the project will encompass nearly one million square feet. Ranging in height from 15 to 35 storeys, to be a mixture of condo ownership and rental units, with 70 per cent of the housing units planned to be affordable. The 4 towers share a typical footprint and layout to fulfil affordability of the building. The Towers are diversified not only by different heights but also by rotating and mirroring the very same layout. Each tower contains two interlocking volumes. The one that ends with the mechanical penthouse popup has a simple pattern, while the other is more playful by adding a staggered horizontal grid with copper vertical elements inside.


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This long, monotonous, bland podium trend really needs to come to an end because it never looks good no matter who tries to do it.
 

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