The Shift | 113.08m | 38s | Edgar | MCM Partnership

[Barnaby]

I think an easy win here is a 3-4 storey warehouse style podium with brick matching one of the various warehouses nearby. Beyond that, just don't do anything stupid.

I did express support via email. I also requested for EDC to mandate brick.

 

[Kosy123]

As long as it's got good street interaction, especially with the LRT rolling right by it, it's got my vote. Still would love a high-rise but I get the economics won't do as well right now.

 

[mcr]

Two entirely different architects unless they have entirely scrapped MCM Partnership and replaced them with Hodgson Schilf Evans (not impossible but very unlikely -- both firms by the way are reputable Architectural firms). If you want to get a sense of MCMs mixed use work in the mid-rise idiom you can check it out here -- https://www.mcmparchitects.com/projects/

Hell, if they just plop a copy of their "Hudson House" down I'd call it a win.

 

[IanO]

Not going to lie, with both projects going forward on 106st, this is going to really change the look and feel of the Downtown very quickly. I cannot wait to see this start digging and for one of the biggest eyesores of a parking stretch to be gone. Add in the park and it's a game changer.

 

[MacLac]

Oh? Both projects going forward? So we know that the Shift is for sure proceeding?

 

[IanO]

Their re(re)zoning is in. Lots can change over the course of project, but it seems like it.

 

[MacLac]

Since you're so close to Autograph's building - just a few blocks west next to the Blue Nile? Poke your head in and get us an update...lol

 

[Greenspace]

Rezoning public hearing is scheduled for September 13.

 

[MacLac]

Wait what? It's NOT even re-zoned yet? We're going back to 2018 on this....it's taken that long? Plus wait another 6-9 months after that date before - hopefully - construction starts?

 

[Greenspace]

^This is a new proposal. The current DC is being rezoned back to standard zone (UW) to enable a smaller development. Under a DC Zone you can only develop what it was approved for.

 

[MacLac]

Rezoning public hearing is scheduled for September 13.

Probably see renderings at the same time?

 

[CplKlinger]

Here's the admin report. This would allow a maximum height of 50 metres (~14 storeys), but also includes an amendment to the Urban Warehouse zone that would increase the max density for the entire zone from 500 dwellings/hectare to 2,200 dwellings/hectare.

 

[IanO]

2200!!!

 

[Kosy123]

What would 2200 even look like? I’m morbidly curious

 

[archited]

Even though the UW Zone parameters are hard to define (apparently they keep changing), if we take a rational assessment that the zone might be at least 5 hectares in size we are talking about a population potential of 11,000 dwellings or about 25,000 people. That realized would certainly put some oomph in downtown viability.