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Councillor Mike Layton hosted a public meeting on January 26 to consider preliminary development plans put forward by the new owner of the site of the former abattoir. The Easton’s Group of Hotels has purchased the odd-shaped property (municipal address: 2 Tecumseth St.) and retained Page+Steele/IBI Group Architects to design a complex of townhomes and apartments adjacent to and over ground floor commercial spaces. The initial design has three buildings of 11, 14, and 19 storeys decreasing in height as they get further from the rail corridor and closer to the lower-scale nineteenth-century housing in the Niagara Neighbourhood. The proposed site plan also includes a new street, enlarged park to the west, and a pedestrian and cycling trail along the railway. After Councillor Layton welcomed the fifty to sixty people attending the meeting Graig Uens, city planner for the area,
gave a short presentation of the South Niagara Planning Strategy, approved by city council in August 2014, that will guide development. http://www.fortyork.ca/images/ management-docs/south-niagara-planning-update_jan-262016.pdf This was followed by an explanation of the owner’s proposal by Mansoor Kazerouni of the architectural team. http://www.fortyork.ca/images/management-docs/designproposal_former-quality-meats_2-tecumseth-st_jan-2016.pdf The next step in the process is up to the Easton’s Group. When it has had sufficient feedback on its preliminary plans, it will proceed with a formal development application. Meanwhile, a window for comment and questions remains open. Please e-mail feedback to Councillor Layton councillor_layton@toronto.ca with a copy to Graig Uens guens@toronto.ca
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