AVENUE & PARK CONDOS

12/1/2016

Avenue and Park Condos By Stafford Homes In North York Toronto

Avenue and Park Condos is a new per-construction Condo project located at 1580 Avenue Road In Toronto.The Major Intersection are Lawrence Avenue West and Avenue Rd. Avenue and Park Condos is a 7 storey residential building with at grade retail. Beer store would remain on site as tenant. Access to below grade parking and loading from Avenue Road. Residential lobby entrance from Bedford Park.

Avenue and Park Condos, current site for The beer store at 1580 Avenue Road could be replaced with a 7-storey condominium building. Located just north of Lawrence, the Page + Steele / IBI Group-designed

Proposed by Stafford Homes—a sister company of the Goldman Group—in association with Rosewater Capital, the project would feature 70 residential suites, ranging from one to three bedrooms. The proposed unit mix includes 29 one-bedroom units, 32 two-bedroom units, and 9 three-bedroom suites. A total of 129 parking spots are proposed (102 of which would be reserved for residents), alongside only 57 bicycle parking spaces, reflecting the car-dominated character of the area.

Along Avenue Road, a seven-storey frontage would meet the street with a mid-rise urban character. To the west, however, the massing gradually steps back to face the low-rise residential neighbourhood with a smaller scale. In what is likely an attempt to mitigate the impact of the building on the smaller streetscape, the upper levels would see some of the massing pulled back from the otherwise flat exterior

LAWRENCE AVE & AVENUE RD
1580 Avenue Rd,Toronto,ON

Since the site sits on an area of significantly changing grade, significant parts of the “ground” floor would be below grade. According to a planning rationale prepared by Bousfields Inc., “because of the change in grade, the first floor at the front will be completely below-grade at the rear and, as a result, the entrance into the residential component of the building will be located at the second storey on Bedford Park Road.”

Along the more secluded western frontage, a 237 m² terrace is also planned as an outdoor amenity space. The terrace would be directly accessible from one of the building’s indoor amenity spaces, with some 240 m² of indoor amenity areas slated. The Avenue Road and Bedford Park Avenue frontages would also both be improved by new landscaping—planned by MEP Design Inc.—with new rows of trees expected to line both streets.
Avenue and Park Condos has a Walk Score of 79 out of 100. Transit Score if 71 out of 100.This location is in the Bedford Park-Nortown neighborhood in Toronto. Nearby parks include Brookdale Park, Old Orchard Park and Chatsworth Ravine.