Location: 2 Howard Park Avenue, Toronto
Developer: Lamb Development Corp.
Architect: architectsAlliance
Toronto’s historic Gooderham flatiron building at Church and Front streets has been a draw for city sightseers and photographers for years. Roncesvalles Village in the city’s west end could get its own modern take on the flatiron thanks to a newly submitted development application.
In late April, an Official Plan Amendment and a Zoning By-law Amendment application was submitted to city planners to construct a 10-storey building with 128 condos at 2 and 6 Howard Park Avenue.
The developer, Brad J. Lamb’s Lamb Development Corp., is currently working on another condominium close by called The Sterling Automotive Condos at Bloor Street West and Symington Avenue. Lamb Development Corp. also submitted an application earlier this year to build a 15-storey condo tower at 471 Queen Street East in Corktown.
The development site is located at the northwest corner of Dundas Street West and Howard Park Avenue. The lot is triangular in shape and spans roughly 11,043 square feet in size. A one-storey auto repair garage and service shop called Master Mechanic currently occupies the site, along with surface parking areas and a private laneway along the western edge of the lot.
The proposal would redevelop the site into a 10-storey, mixed-use building with a seven-storey base element for a total of 87,510 square feet in gross floor area. The project follows the triangular shape of the site and anchors the Dundas and Howard Park intersection with a prominent flatiron shape, explains the planning rationale by Bousfields Inc. The building intends to use a mix of brick and stone in order to “reflect the existing character of the area.”
Of the 128 condo units proposed, the breakdown would include 60 studio suites, 44 one-bedroom, 11 two-bedroom and 13 three-bedroom units.
About 4,057 square feet of retail space would be added to the ground floor fronting onto Dundas Street West and Howard Park Avenue. The ground floor would be shared by a residential lobby that is accessed by Dundas Street West, plus a visitor bicycle storage and services area.
A mezzanine level above the ground floor would be open to the level below, including the double-height retail space. Indoor amenity areas would be incorporated throughout the mezzanine level, including a 405-square-foot boardroom for those working from home. On the eighth floor, a 874-square-foot indoor amenity room would be built at the southeast corner of the building with access to an outdoor amenity terrace with views of the intersection below. The units on the same level would have access to a private outdoor terrace.
A three-level underground parking garage accessible via two car elevators off the private laneway would provide 40 parking spaces, plus a pet grooming and wash station on the second level. A total of 129 bicycle parking spots are also slated for the project.
In the neighbourhood, construction continues at XO Condos, while sales recently launched at House of Assembly.
