A proposal from Podium Developments calls for a condo tower that would float above an existing student rental building in the Church-Wellesley Village neighborhood at 396-398 Church Street. This is currently home to Kinton Ramen and Kinka Izakaya locations which is a trio of rowhouses at 73-77 McGill Street, and a portion of an existing student rental building at 50 Gerrard Street East.
In place of the current buildings, Podium is seeking rezoning and an Official Plan Amendment to build a 43-storey condo tower with a height of 141 metres, designed by architects IBI Group.
The development portion of this site will include:
- Single-storey restaurant building
- Three-storey houses
- A northern section of the eight-storey student rental
- Leaving the majority of the building intact
BlogTo states that the latter involves an unusual arrangement where strata rights were purchased from the owner of the rental building in order to allow the new condos to float above its northern end.
The plans will include the following:
- Total gross floor area of 28,998 square metres for residential space
- 28,782 square metres supporting 463 condominium units
- Mix of 47 studios
- 229 one-bedrooms
- 147 two-bedrooms
- 40 three-bedrooms
- Remaining 216 square metres proposed for retail fronting Church Street
- 43rd-storey outdoor amenity area at north side of building measuring 1,649.3 square feet
- Larger outdoor amenity area of 3,321.9 square feet located on third floor
Urban Toronto reports that the landscape architect is LGL Limited and the construction management is IBI Group. Engineers working on this project are WSP, Gradient Wind Engineers & Scientists, G2S Consulting Inc. and EcoSmart Building Energy Solutions.
