Honest Ed’s Redevelopment Plan Goes Big on Rental
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What’s happening with the Honest Ed’s site, which was acquired by Vancouver-based Westbank Corp last fall? The 500-plus crammed into the Hyatt Regency ballroom for a public open house Tuesday night heard preliminary plans presented by design team principals from Henriquez Partners Architects and Janet Rosenberg + Studio. The entire development doesn’t include any condos (gasp!), rather three apartment towers (21, 22 and 29 storeys) and an array of shorter buildings, for a total of 1,000 rental units—some as large as four bedrooms (double gasp!). The project will also have 200k SF of retail.
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Westbank's plan calls for Honest Ed's to be torn down and replaced with a wall of new buildings lining Bloor and Bathurst (as well as Lennox Street at the site's south end) with a mix of designs meant to mimic the eclectic look of existing area storefronts. There’ll also be a glass-roofed Mirvish Village Market and laneways cutting through the block lined with retail and live-work units. Most houses and buildings on Markham Street are to be retained, and the road itself transformed into a pedestrian-friendly woonerf. One woonders what ol' Ed would've thought of that...