Architect drawings for a nine-tower six-block redevelopment of the Kipling and Evans area.
The Kipling and Evans Avenues area is so hot with development activity these days that the neighbourhood is steaming.
The area, which is already home of many large warehouses, may soon be home sweet home for almost 5,000 new residents as nine towers ranging up to 42 storeys are proposed.
A proposal is in the early stages to build mixed-use towers in a six-block area ranging from 12 to 42 storeys at 350, 360, and 364 Evans Avenue, and 14-16 Arnold Street, a huge lot at the northeast corner of Evans and Kipling, that now houses a brewery and commercial businesses.
The mega-project, which is going through the application process, promises to deliver 4,623 residential units and include green spaces, retail areas, a daycare and public park.
Almost 5,000 new residents will be moving into the community when built in a number of years.
It will take a while for the plan to go through the application process as the development has to be approved by Community and City councils.
Some residents are already complaining of a lack of health care services for the new residents and traffic congestion to travel on local roads and the Gardiner Expressway.
An Official Plan Amendment (OPA) application has been filed to transform a commercial site from Core Employment Areas to Mixed Use Areas.
The proposal includes outdoor space in the podiums and rooftop spaces. Also planned is a 4,300 square metre public park at Kipling and Evans. Connecting the blocks would be a new public road and two private roads.
There would be 2,053 parking spaces and 240 for visitors in two underground levels and in two floors of a building.
Area residents worry about the traffic congestion and lack of infrastructure for new development and its residents.
TTC buses connect the site to Bloor Line 2, GO trains, and MiWay buses at Kipling station, to Royal York station and Sherway Gardens. Bus stops are also located along Evans and Kipling avenues.
The area will become busier with more traffic congestion as at least 12 major development proposals or projects are underway and includes: 1156 The Queensway at 9 storeys, Joya Condos at 12 storeys and 1230 The Queensway at 13 floors, according to Urban Toronto reports.
Larger projects near Kipling include 1306 The Queensway with three towers from 13 to 41 storeys, and 1325 The Queensway with two towers at 35 and 46 storeys, according to Urban Toronto.
The proposed site of the new development as it is now.
North of the Gardiner, proposals include 2 St. Lawrence with three towers up to 20 storeys, 10 Zorra at 28 storeys, IQ Condos Phase 3 with three towers from 18 to 42 storeys, and 40-60 St. Lawrence featuring three towers from 26 to 43 storeys.
Then there is 1025 The Queensway that proposes a large-scale replacement of Cineplex Queensway Cinemas with 12 towers ranging from 7 to 46 storeys.
There is also a 43-storey high-rise planned to go directly across from the Long Branch GO Station that is at the hearing stage.
There is also a 43-storey high-rise planned to go directly opposite Long Branch GO Station on the site of small open mall that will be demolished.