[SteelTown]

Dundas condo plan revealed

http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/663765--dundas-condo-plan-revealed

DUNDAS The manager of the Dundas Dairy Queen says a plan to build a seven-storey, 55-unit condominium on the site will improve that stretch of King Street East.

“It’s a dark spot in town. We’d like to bring light to it,” Reza Soufian said.

Soufian and Hamilton architect John Mokrycke brought drawings of the proposed Dairy Queen expansion to a recent community council meeting.

“We’d like to move as quickly as possible,” Mokrycke said.

Council members expressed no concerns about the application, which would produce a building that — at just under 80 feet high — will be a storey taller than an existing residential-commercial building next to it.

Preliminary drawings show the top two floors will be stepped back, so from the street, the structure will appear shorter than it is.

A 16-foot ground floor will include space for an expanded Dairy Queen and at least two more commercial operations.

The company that owns the property and Dairy Queen bought a former car dealership next door in November.

[thistleclub]

Architecturally, this is probably the least appealing block of downtown Dundas (a dog's breakfast of service & retail, a surplus of fugly midrises), so hopefully this shifts the balance a bit. Although I'm not especially encouraged by the idea that a DQ (a seasonal Brazier at present) will be on the ground floor. I assume the "16-foot" measure refers to storey height and not building width.

Curious to see what's planned. I'm assuming the Dundas Star will have pleliminary drawings up in the next couple of days.