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Toronto Film Studio re-development plan to include hotel, retail uses
Monday October 12th 2015The 22-acre Toronto Film Studio site on Eastern Avenue will be redeveloped with the film studio intact, along with offices, retail and a nine-storey hotel, if Toronto Council goes along with recommendations from the Toronto and East York Community Council.
Community council approved the plans by SmartCentres to redevelop the site through a development proposal significantly different from SmartCentre’s last attempts to redevelop the site in 2007.
Then, the Leslieville community north of the studio raised objections to the massive retail development that was to have included a Walmart — finally prevailing at the Ontario Municipal Board.
“There was an epic battle worthy of filming when we went to the OMB when the member found that the larger scale big box retail would produce retail contagions throughout the area,” said local Ward 30 Councillor Paula Fletcher, who supported the development proposal with some small amendments.
The proposal will retain studio uses on the site, with various other employment uses — in accordance with the city’s designation of the lands as an employment area.
Councillors acknowledged the importance of the site to the city’s $1-billion film and television industry.
“The film industry is a billion-dollar industry in the Toronto economy and protecting it has been Job One for this application,” said Fletcher.
The proposal would see six new buildings beside the existing film studio: two 10-storey office buildings, two four-storey office buildings with retail along Eastern Avenue, and a four-storey above grade parking structure with retail along with a nine-storey hotel with retail on the ground floor.
The Community Council heard from representatives of the film industry and surrounding businesses and residences, who were generally supportive of the plan but raised concerns about traffic management measures.
Those measures include a requirement to build a road through the site between Lake Shore Boulevard and Eastern Avenue, and new traffic control signals at Caroline Avenue and Eastern Avenue, and the intersection of 629 Eastern Ave. and Lake Shore Boulevard.
Source: Inside Toronto
Front Page, Headline, Industry News
Toronto Film Studio re-development plan to include hotel, retail uses
Monday October 12th 2015The 22-acre Toronto Film Studio site on Eastern Avenue will be redeveloped with the film studio intact, along with offices, retail and a nine-storey hotel, if Toronto Council goes along with recommendations from the Toronto and East York Community Council.
Community council approved the plans by SmartCentres to redevelop the site through a development proposal significantly different from SmartCentre’s last attempts to redevelop the site in 2007.
Then, the Leslieville community north of the studio raised objections to the massive retail development that was to have included a Walmart — finally prevailing at the Ontario Municipal Board.
“There was an epic battle worthy of filming when we went to the OMB when the member found that the larger scale big box retail would produce retail contagions throughout the area,” said local Ward 30 Councillor Paula Fletcher, who supported the development proposal with some small amendments.
The proposal will retain studio uses on the site, with various other employment uses — in accordance with the city’s designation of the lands as an employment area.
Councillors acknowledged the importance of the site to the city’s $1-billion film and television industry.
“The film industry is a billion-dollar industry in the Toronto economy and protecting it has been Job One for this application,” said Fletcher.
The proposal would see six new buildings beside the existing film studio: two 10-storey office buildings, two four-storey office buildings with retail along Eastern Avenue, and a four-storey above grade parking structure with retail along with a nine-storey hotel with retail on the ground floor.
The Community Council heard from representatives of the film industry and surrounding businesses and residences, who were generally supportive of the plan but raised concerns about traffic management measures.
Those measures include a requirement to build a road through the site between Lake Shore Boulevard and Eastern Avenue, and new traffic control signals at Caroline Avenue and Eastern Avenue, and the intersection of 629 Eastern Ave. and Lake Shore Boulevard.
Source: Inside Toronto
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Front Page, Headline, Industry News
Toronto Film Studio re-development plan to include hotel, retail uses
Monday October 12th 2015The 22-acre Toronto Film Studio site on Eastern Avenue will be redeveloped with the film studio intact, along with offices, retail and a nine-storey hotel, if Toronto Council goes along with recommendations from the Toronto and East York Community Council.
Community council approved the plans by SmartCentres to redevelop the site through a development proposal significantly different from SmartCentre’s last attempts to redevelop the site in 2007.
Then, the Leslieville community north of the studio raised objections to the massive retail development that was to have included a Walmart — finally prevailing at the Ontario Municipal Board.
“There was an epic battle worthy of filming when we went to the OMB when the member found that the larger scale big box retail would produce retail contagions throughout the area,” said local Ward 30 Councillor Paula Fletcher, who supported the development proposal with some small amendments.
The proposal will retain studio uses on the site, with various other employment uses — in accordance with the city’s designation of the lands as an employment area.
Councillors acknowledged the importance of the site to the city’s $1-billion film and television industry.
“The film industry is a billion-dollar industry in the Toronto economy and protecting it has been Job One for this application,” said Fletcher.
The proposal would see six new buildings beside the existing film studio: two 10-storey office buildings, two four-storey office buildings with retail along Eastern Avenue, and a four-storey above grade parking structure with retail along with a nine-storey hotel with retail on the ground floor.
The Community Council heard from representatives of the film industry and surrounding businesses and residences, who were generally supportive of the plan but raised concerns about traffic management measures.
Those measures include a requirement to build a road through the site between Lake Shore Boulevard and Eastern Avenue, and new traffic control signals at Caroline Avenue and Eastern Avenue, and the intersection of 629 Eastern Ave. and Lake Shore Boulevard.
Source: Inside Toronto
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