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Vic Station | 23 fl | Proposed
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This project is located right at the corner of Westmount Rd and Victoria St S (751 Victoria St S), it will not replace everything in the plaza, the existing 2 floor office building that contains all the medical offices will remain however everything else will go.

The current plan is for a 23 floor building containing 261 rental units as well as 8800 or so sqft of ground floor commercial space. Nothing is known about parking yet but from the rendering there is no parking podium facing Westmount or Victoria, if there is a parking podium its internal to the rest of the site.

The developer behind this is Valour Group who so far have primarily developed SFH developments throughout southern Ontario, they have quite a few projects planned such as Stanley Hotel and Condos in Niagara Falls (3x30), Fairview GO (2x20) in Burlington, and then a pile more. The only apartment they seem to have every built is 301 Westmount which is immediately next to this proposal and it is now renting.

The site currently is zoned MIX-3 which only allows for a max FSR of 2.0 and a height of 10 floors so they would definitely require a ZBA/OPA before this goes anywhere. They most likely won't need relief on setbacks since it is such a large property but since it is still in the pre application phase things might change after pre submission meetings with the city are all complete.

Here's the current rendering (View is from Victoria with Westmount being the cross road):
   
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#2
This feels like a good spot for infill, for sure. I wonder if they'll approach the medical tenants to see if they want to move into the podium of this building, so that they can put up a third tower on that footprint and really fill in the lot.

Where did you find the info on this one?
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(07-05-2024, 03:30 PM)SF22 Wrote: This feels like a good spot for infill, for sure. I wonder if they'll approach the medical tenants to see if they want to move into the podium of this building, so that they can put up a third tower on that footprint and really fill in the lot.

Where did you find the info on this one?

I was looking at a different development and happened to stumble across the developers name so out of curiosity I wanted to see what the developer had in the pipeline and stumbled across this.
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#4
I'm sick of places being called "station" when there's no station in the building.
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#5
They're just getting a headstart for when they open up a third LRT line underneath Victoria Street. :'P

As if that'll ever happen...but it would be cool.
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#6
Definite upgrade for that location. Much needed.
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#7
Wow an actual nice proposal in the region? Things must be changing. Luckily this will hide the view of Valour's other development on the property "301 westmount". Which hasn't received the hate it deserves. 

 https://valourgroup.ca/301-westmount/
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#8
Which corner is this proposed for? The "south-east" or the "north-west"?
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(07-08-2024, 06:03 PM)panamaniac Wrote: Which corner is this proposed for?  The "south-east" or the "north-west"?

South-west. 301 is the address of a building that used to be a Taco-Bell.
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