If I were Medallion, I would simply walk away and develop elsewhere and make it very clear in doing so that their cancellation was 100% the fault of Unity made worse by the City Hall bureaucracy and allowing this appeal in the first place.
Unity will have lost all it's low income housing and will feel the wrath of Old East Merchants who are hanging on by a thread only to find that Unity {which professes to want to help the local community} are helping to kill it by fighting such desperately needed population/consumer growth and infill to create a more solid built urban form.
All the OLT articles reference changes that Medallion has made the podium and other urban design features to earn the added density from council. Are these still the latest renders?
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LFP article on the agency who had their appeal to OLT tossed out. They are sadly misguided on the reality of basic economics. They seem to think this is the Soviet Union in the 50s/60s building social housing concrete apartment blocks.
Good to see this moving to the next step of Detailed site plan application. Medallion will be topping out their two towers on South St this winter which hopefully means they will be approved with a building permit and demolition permits to get site prep underway in 2024. Now if only we could see some movement at 809 Dundas St by the new owners FoxWood Developments to redevelop that property with the twin 24s towers they got zoned for a couple of years ago.
725, 729, 735, 737 Dundas Street and 289, 391, 393 Hewitt Street – Application for Site Plan Approval by East Village Holdings Ltd. Consideration of a site plan application for the development of a mixed-use building of 24 storeys with 270 units and ground floor commercial and retail uses. The zoning on this site includes a holding provision for a public site plan meeting before the Planning and Environment Committee. File: SPA22-057 Planner: Sonia Wise
Amazing at how fast those other 3 (especially the first 2) buildings have gone downhill and they are under 10 years old. Landlord doesn't have a good reputation either. No doubt this one will suffer the same fate. Hopefully they are able to keep the Soho buildings in better shape but I have my doubts.
Most of the PPM was spent on comments about the garbage pickup area and making the pedestrian walkway from the surface parking lot to Dundas St available. This is actually west of the new tower and part of the original plan for the first towers built.
Up next is a demolition permit for the existing corner buildings which are already boarded up. No reason not to move ahead ASAP on clearing the corner now. Also submitting a building permit application should follow on the heels of the demolition permit.
Letter to City Council Mtg today about the 3 year temporary parking lot extension so that they can build the 24s tower. In the letter they indicate the building permit for the tower was approved in March and they wait only on a approved development agreement. Construction of this 24s tower will be approximately 3 years from start.
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