675 Progress Avenue Redevelopment
675 Progress Avenue Redevelopment
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Client
Selkirk Investmenets
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Dates
2014 - present
- Expertise
- Architecture
- Planning
Scarborough Town Centre Precinct is a major urban growth area in the Greater Golden Horseshoe. Selkirk Investments’ property at 675 Progress Avenue sits at the heart of the precinct, adjacent to the Scarborough Town Centre commercial plaza. The southwest corner of the site is immediately adjacent to a rapid transit terminal, McCowan Station, and the property is flanked by municipally owned land earmarked for school and parkland development.
This mixed use development plan at 675 Progress Avenue envisions a high-density urban community with a bisecting linear park connecting the two municipal park sites. The plan includes a high volume of commercial and retail space, facilitating the growth of a sustainable, mixed-use development on a site currently occupied by an industrial operation. The plan features approximately 3.1 million square feet of mixed-use development and 2,455 residential units, 140,000 square feet of commercial and retail space, parking, service, and amenity space.
The project is designed to meet LEED-Gold criteria, with nearly 65% of the site covered in landscaped permeable surfaces (including 70% green roof coverage), an application for the re-designation of the site within Toronto’s Official Plan was made in 2010 with tentative approval gained in the fall of 2012. A re-zoning submission was approved in 2012.
