Plans are underway to demolish the Kipling and Queensway Mall to constuct 13 condo towers up to 65 storeys tall.
One of our longest-serving malls with an abundance of parking may soon be gone for what is being called one of the largest redevelopments in the area.
An application has been filed to redevelop the Kipling Queensway Mall, at 1255 The Queensway, into one of the largest construction zone in the area with 13 towers ranging up to 65 storeys tall.
A company called Figtree Holdings Limited has proposed what’s described as ‘one of the largest redevelopments’ on the 7.4 hectare site, that contains a Sobey’s grocery store and Ontario licensing office.
This artist concept shows the condo towers planned for the Kipling and Queensway site.
It will be the second Sobey’s store the community stands to lose, as another in the Park Lawn Avenue and The Queensway mall will be shut for another mega redevelopment. The company is building a new ground-level store just east of the Kipling and Queensway area.
Plans filed called for mid-rise buildings to line The Queensway, stepping up to taller forms toward Kipling Avenue and the Gardiner Expressway ramps.
A large section of the mall parking lot is slated for use as a large ramp that will lead to and from the Gardiner Expressway.
The project, which is in the planning stage, when completed will bring about 7,400 residential units, with the ground floors being used for commercial uses. There are also plans for a new elementary school to service the incoming population.
This Sobeys will be the second one lost in the community but fret not as a newer Sobeys is built closeby.
Two new public parks are planned, along with a green corridor and space to serve as a school yard should a school be built.
Plans show there will be about 4,200 parking spots, including 370 for visitors, 119 for retail and 23 for school use. There will be more than 5,000 spaces for bicycles.
The proposal joins a growing list of Toronto malls and shopping centres being redeveloped in a shift from brick-and-mortar retail. Among those being developed are Sherway Gardens, the Cineplex Queensway complex, Cloverdale Mall, Dixie Outlet Mall, Yorkdale Mall and many others.
The complex will bring large-scale intensification and congestion along The Queensway. There are more than a dozen condo mega-projects being built or planned within blocks of the Kipling Queensway mall site, in which about 25 towers are being constructed.