45 Duke St W | 19 fl | Proposed

[jeffster]

Yeah looks like half of the people won't have access to parking spot, although they can probably rent it from the museum nearby.

Ontario St parking garage is literally across the street. I am happy to see that the city is not forcing the developer to meet a parking minimum.

And, of course, anyone that is not happy with the lack of parking can choose to buy (or more likely rent?) elsewhere.

Ironically, it is likely cheaper to rent a spot at D&O or City Hall vs paying for a spot, if available, at the tower. Would be a win for the city coffers as well if they rented 30 spots or so. 30 * 170 * 12 is $62,000/year.

[ZEBuilder]

In the Growing Together documents the second phase of this project was described. All the properties are owned again by Tony Di Batista. Phase 1 of the project has SPA for a 23 floor building fronting Duke St (Last I recall it was 21).

For the existing SPA building there is only 13 parking spaces accessible for the Phase 1 site, access to parking on P1 and P2 (built as part of Phase 1) is through a knockout wall that connects to the Phase 2 site which will allow for 46 more parking spaces in Phase 1.

There is no concept model for the Phase 2 building but it will sit on the property that "The Adventurers Guild" is in and expand towards King. The entire rest of the site will be covered with a podium of 5 floors (maintaining the SGA-2 zoning along King). The concept for phase 2 is a 36 floor building with 325 units. Nothing is mentioned about parking, but it's in an SGA zone so there is no legal requirement anymore to provide parking.

Here's the site plan:
   

[tomh009]

It appears that the owner of the building hosting Ace Shawarma has not agreed to terms (at least not yet) with Di Battista ...

[Square]

Looks like this house is going from a bar to become home to a pizza restaurant.