Toronto 474 Wellington Street West | 54.95m | 13s | Hullmark | a—A

[UrbanAffair]

Agreed, this looks much better.

 

[interchange42]

Front page story up here, this database file updated. Thread for the other half of this assembly is being closed.

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[smably]

Love the first five storeys and the larger, more functional office floor plans. Not sure about the design of the upper portion. Seems a little busy and unfocused with the patchwork of fins and unadorned curtain wall. I'm actually a little sad to have lost RAW's design for 488 with the dense horizontal fins.

 

[.dwg]

The drawings don’t appear to be on the Dev App website anymore? Was hoping to peruse through them.

 

[400WellingtonGuy]

The drawings don’t appear to be on the Dev App website anymore? Was hoping to peruse through them.

I suspect that since the application was supposedly in the "without prejudice" stage it should not have been posted by the City.

 

[Toronto1834]

Settlement offer: http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2019.CC5.12

 

[400WellingtonGuy]

Watch out for the confidential attachment. Juicy planning stuff.

 

[ProjectEnd]

Interim use: The Well’s sales center. Hullmark’s new office is on the second floor:

 

[hbf92]

Even if it's at least a few years before this gets off the ground, I'm surprised Hullmark seems to have sunk a fair bit of money into their HQ here just to tear it down a few years in the future https://www.quadrangle.ca/portfolio/hullmark-head-office-at-474-wellington-street-west

 

[Red Mars]

Sat Apr 25, 2020

 

[ferusian]

Approved in priniciple at OLT:

Hullmark (474 Wellington) LP v Toronto (City), 2021 CanLII 115473 (ON LT)

Revised proposal:

• [13] The current proposal contemplates a 13-storey office building incorporating at-grade retail units. There are to be three distinct five-storey volumes, which include the two listed heritage buildings on the Doubledown-owned portion of the subject site. Ms. Dale-Harris pointed out that the original proposals envisioned significantly higher towers and higher densities. She described substantial changes in the current proposal, not only in respect of the height and massing but a significant 23-25% reduction in proposed density, as well. In addition, she described changes, providing setbacks from adjacent properties, and a deliberate and sensitive arrangement of the development, where the tower portion thereof is significantly setback above the proposed five-storey volumes, achieving a clear distinction between the tower and the two heritage buildings.

• [26] THE TRIBUNAL ORDERS, on an interim basis, that the appeals are allowed in part and the Zoning By-law Amendment is approved in principle. The Tribunal will withhold its final Order pending completion of the items set out in Attachment 1.

 

[Lachlan Holmes]

Some more refinements to the design here have taken place. From the Architectural Plans uploaded to the AIC on May 5th, 2022:

Images from the AIC linked here.

 

[AlbertC]

Marben and The Cloak Bar at 488 Wellington St W, will be closing towards the end of Jan 2023:

Iconic Toronto restaurant and sister bar abruptly shutters after 16 years

In a truly monumental blow to Toronto's food and restaurant scene, an immensely loved local stalwart and matching bar has announced its closure aft...

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