900 Albert St | 234/203/105m | 65/56/23fl | Approved
 

EDIT: 2018 updated renders



Formerly known as 801 Albert | 140.4m & 130.9m | 33 fl & 30 fl | Approved
and 900 Albert


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"Surface and underground parking" already reeks of a tower-in-the-park type of garbage. I'll wait to see renderings, but it would make me smile more if I had also seen the words "retail podium" and "Integrated with a transfer station".

here's their old proposal('05)

http://www.phoenixhomes.ca/phoenixNe...ber28-2005.pdf

It'd be awesome to ANYTHING built west of Lebreton near Bayview/Scott Streets...would add some much needed rejuvination to the northern section of the city...

I quite liked that proposal.

I live on Preston,these towers rise up quite close to my house.

The views would be phenomenal....

what are the chances of this thing actually getting built at 31 stories? did they make it taller so they have room to negotiate with the city on height?

^that's what I'm thinking.

Well, the elevation at Bayview is substantially lower than that of the CBD. I don't think it would obstruct any views of Parliament....

Happens all the time...it is rare that the public or councillors ask the developer to increase the height/density. City Planners do, but I've never known the public or the elected officials.

Its called the art of the negotiation.

application page (site plan)


To construct 2- 31 storey apartment buildings. + 2 storeys of mechanical equipment and 3-4 storeys of office building.

http://wwuploads.googlepages.com/801albert.jpg

bahaha.

This thing is an absolute abomination of urbanism...some of which is the City's fault and some the developer's.

First of all...why on earth are the property lines set so frigging far back from Scott (Albert?)? This development is steps from the CBD yet the setbacks are similar to new single family home subdivisions in Avalon. And what abuts the property line? A surface lot? At the intersection of what could be an N-S-E-W transit transfer location? Give me a break.

I guess you would have too see the site,the property lines are set far back because of steep terrain.

Usually they would just zone it Hazard or something similar to prevent development on that part of the land (at least where I work). Obviously the road ROW is particularly wide along Scott Street/Wellington in that area. I'd be curious to find out why.

It seems a little bit premature to begin developing Bayview. There should really be a more comprehensive plan for the area before development should proceed.

You can see the hatch marks along Scott street on the left hand side, but that's the only place where steep terrain is shown.

the drawing makes me think of Place Champlain in Hull with its parking lot along Taché.. it has a similar type of drop-off from the street.

You can see from the site plan that this site is criss-crossed with sewer easements. If the buildings were brought any closer to Scott/Albert, they would be encroaching on the easement.

I don't think there's any other alternative in this case.

The residential buildings have about 50% more resident parking spaces than required (although based on the numbers it is probably all underground and visitors is above ground)

The first thing that came to my mind when I saw this plan was the grouping of all the Alta Vista apartments and condos (in the vicinity of the Canada Post depot). I agree, this is a joke.

I guess that shows how much I know about reading site plans.

Would these sewers predate the current Scott St. alignment? I wonder if there are plans to move them...