Infill Gainsborough Road

MolsonExport · #1 Posted **Jul 11, 2014, 1:20 PM**

My neck of the woods. While there still is a woods.

http://www.london.ca/business/Planni...2013-05-15.pdf

HillStreetBlues · #2 Posted **Jul 11, 2014, 2:38 PM**

Thanks for the link! I have to say a bit grudgingly that I can see some merit. There’s no way anyone else is getting to any of the planned retail on foot, but it looks relatively accessible to the dwellers of the planned buildings, and might not feel terrible to use. Hopefully there is a good foot link from the existing building to the south and this planned building.

I don’t think this qualifies as infill, since this is undeveloped land and most of what is around it is, too. I could be wrong about that, though. The proposal doesn’t seem to use that word.

Simpseatles · #3 Posted **Jul 11, 2014, 11:18 PM**

Meh, not too bad. Always encouraging to see some pedestrian-oriented retail with parking at the rear of the building. This could help to create a little bit of a village center for Hyde Park. And the renderings for the towers certainly look better than the ugly Tricar slab apartment building right beside it.

jammer139 · #4 Posted **Jul 3, 2016, 1:44 PM**

This proposed project has been quiet for a couple of years now. the garden centre appears to be gone. Is the project dead?

MolsonExport · #5 Posted **Jul 4, 2016, 1:04 PM**

need more now that a major fire has destroyed a strip plaza

jammer139 · #6 Posted **Mar 3, 2017, 12:16 AM**

Houses are now being built east of this proposed twin tower project. The land that was occupied by the garden centre. Wonder if this twin tower project has been abandoned?

jammer139 · #7 Posted **Apr 25, 2018, 11:13 AM**

This project appears to be still alive.

Urban Design brief.

https://www.london.ca/business/Plann...2018-04-18.pdf

kaiserLDN · #8 Posted **Apr 25, 2018, 2:12 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by jammer139

This project appears to be still alive.

Urban Design brief.

https://www.london.ca/business/Plann...2018-04-18.pdf

Nice! I like the looks of this project

MolsonExport · #9 Posted **Apr 25, 2018, 5:41 PM**

move the highrises closer to the road. The highrises are so far back, right next to single family housing.

Djeffery · #10 Posted **Apr 25, 2018, 9:29 PM**

Noticed they aren’t proposing to build the condo buildings and they changed from 3 commercial buildings to 2 with the 2 set back commercial buildings being combined in to 1 larger building.

kaiserLDN · #11 Posted **Apr 26, 2018, 5:29 PM**

More details of the commercial part of the project. Think this was in city council to reduce parking spots.

http://www.london.ca/business/Planni...-18-Notice.pdf

MolsonExport · #12 Posted **Apr 26, 2018, 9:34 PM**

That is quite the modification to the original proposal

MolsonExport · #13 Posted **Feb 17, 2019, 9:42 PM**

lots of walled-off property along Gainsborough near Hyde Park.

Djeffery · #14 Posted **Sep 8, 2019, 7:35 PM**

Looks like the rear 2s of this project has structural steel and elevator shaft and stairwells built.

jammer139 · #15 Posted **Jul 30, 2020, 1:22 AM**

Looks like this company is back with a revised proposal at 978 Gainsborough Rd. Two 20s towers sharing a podium base.

https://www.london.ca/business/Plann...pplication.pdf

https://www.london.ca/business/Plann...es/Z-9247.aspx

Highland Communities Inc.

haljackey · #16 Posted **Jul 30, 2020, 1:35 AM**

Wow impressive. I wonder if Gainsborough will ever be widened from Hyde Park to Wonderland to support these kinds of dense development.

...Then again, Southdale is still a dinky road that supports similar structures near Colonel Talbot, so I guess not.

jammer139 · #17 Posted **Aug 1, 2020, 12:10 AM**

The Highland Communities company doesn't appear to have any track record of building anything?? Unless they are the same as a company in Wisconsin that builds seniors apartments. Wondering if this will ever happen. The new plan is impressive which makes me suspect its more of a dream then a reality.