Toronto 70-104 Brownville | 146.55m | 43s | Elysium | BDP Quadrangle

Northern Light · Oct 5, 2024

Elysium in partnership with Hepsor have an assembly of 17 properties just east of Weston Road and south of Eglinton.

The proposal, will be for two, hirise towers, of purpose-built rental.

Information from Renx:

Elysium, Hepsor buy another multitower Toronto dev. site

Toronto-based Elysium Investments Inc. and its Estonian developer Hepsor AS have partnered on their second acquisition within a month, a one-acre site in the Mount Dennis neighbourhood of Toronto.

renx.ca

Project Page: https://elysiuminvestments.ca/project/brownville

Site:

jmi22 · Nov 20, 2024

Huh, guessed this was going to be in the apartment neighborhood's from the upzoning they did for the planned eg west subway. But nope, pure neighborhoods south of Barr Ave. Kinda makes me wonder why they wouldn't have consolidated lots on literally the other side of the street and presumably had a much easier time rezoning rather than try to crack a chunk of the yellowbelt. Odd.

1Ć0 · Nov 20, 2024

jmi22 said:
Huh, guessed this was going to be in the apartment neighborhood's from the upzoning they did for the planned eg west subway. But nope, pure neighborhoods south of Barr Ave. Kinda makes me wonder why they wouldn't have consolidated lots on literally the other side of the street and presumably had a much easier time rezoning rather than try to crack a chunk of the yellowbelt. Odd.
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They probably did approach a lot more land owners in the area, but likely found the owners along Brownville as amenable to assembly, delayed closing, redevelopment, etc., relative to others...

Northern Light · Nov 20, 2024

jmi22 said:
Huh, guessed this was going to be in the apartment neighborhood's from the upzoning they did for the planned eg west subway. But nope, pure neighborhoods south of Barr Ave. Kinda makes me wonder why they wouldn't have consolidated lots on literally the other side of the street and presumably had a much easier time rezoning rather than try to crack a chunk of the yellowbelt. Odd.
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They got their idea from the fact this parcel is within the Mt. Dennis PMTSA

And

Is shifted to Mixed Use under the Mt. Dennis Secondary Plan:

https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2022/ey/bgrd/backgroundfile-227075.pdf

I will leave it @innsertnamehere to explain the inconsistencies.....

jmi22 · Nov 21, 2024

Oh wow is the Mt Dennis Secondary plan in force yet? Don't know how I never heard about it

innsertnamehere · Nov 21, 2024

OPA 571 is under appeal to the OLT from my understanding, but it does appear the City is intent on redesignating this to mixed-use areas. This application is likely anticipating this.

Northern Light · Nov 21, 2024

innsertnamehere said:
OPA 571 is under appeal to the OLT from my understanding, but it does appear the City is intent on redesignating this to mixed-use areas. This application is likely anticipating this.

I knew you would know! Thanks!

innsertnamehere · Nov 21, 2024

Another note - the City is absolutely *terrible* about maintaining a properly consolidated version of the Official Plan online. What is posted on their website is not always accurate to what the actual in-force policies are.

The online version of the Official Plan is a consolidation of the Official Plan policies in effect as of June 2024 (Chapters 1-5), June 2024 (Schedules 1-4) and June 2015, except where more recently dated (Chapters 6 and 7). It is provided for information purposes only. For legal purposes, reference should be made to the original certified documents which are on file with the City Clerk including the Official Plan as approved by the Ontario Municipal Board on July 6, 2006 and subsequent Official Plan Amendments.

It's a bit of a mess, to be honest.

1Ć0 · Nov 21, 2024

I understand that the SP has been approved, except for where there remain site specific appeals by KingSett. As per NRU from 2 weeks ago:

and link to the OLT decision - https://www.omb.gov.on.ca/e-decisions/OLT-22-004277-OCT-11-2024.PDF

innsertnamehere · Nov 21, 2024

There we go - I'm not infallible - that means that the City hasn't updated it's OP consolidation yet to account for it, but the site is legally designated mixed-use.

guavadelic · Apr 2, 2025

CBC mentioned this site on a story about teens helping to design a future POPS here that they say would connect to the Mount Dennis transit hub. However, the site in question doesn't seem to connect to the hub considering that it is separated by a street and another row of houses to the east. Anyone know what they are referring to here?

Alice Tulloch and Jayden Pan were two of three winners of a contest that had teenagers create their own models for a future Privately Owned Publicly-Accessible Space (POPS) that would connect a new rental development and a busy transit hub at 70-104 Brownville Ave.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/teens-design-toronto-mount-dennis-development-1.7499085

Northern Light · Apr 2, 2025

guavadelic said:
CBC mentioned this site on a story about teens helping to design a future POPS here that they say would connect to the Mount Dennis transit hub. However, the site in question doesn't seem to connect to the hub considering that it is separated by a street and another row of houses to the east. Anyone know what they are referring to here?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/teens-design-toronto-mount-dennis-development-1.7499085

Can't say I know for sure, off hand, but Mx already blew out one property here at the end of Barr for construction access: