Northeast corner of Fallingbrook and Kingston roads site of proposed 11-storey mixed-use building

A proposal for a 11-storey mixed use building on the northeast corner of Kingston and Fallingbrook roads has been received by the City of Toronto.

The new building is proposed to contain 216 residential units with a gross floor area of 14,354 square metres (including 590 square metres of street-level retail space along the Kingston Road frontage).

Impacted addresses for this proposal are 1212 to 1238 Kingston Rd., and 155 and 159 Fallingbrook Rd.

In its cover letter to the city as part of the application, Bousfields Inc. (representing applicant Fallingbrook Holdings Limited Partnership) said the 0.22-hectare site is presently occupied by a two-storey residential/mixed use building containing businesses and 10 rental dwelling units.

The proposed building includes a four-to six-storey “pedestrian scaled streetwall” with the levels above stepped back along all frontages, said Bousfields.

The plan meets both provincial and City of Toronto guidelines “which support intensification on underutilized sites with access to municipal infrastructure and frequent transit, including higher-order transit,” said Bousfields. “The proposal would redevelop the subject site in a manner that is consistent with the city-initiated framework for revitalization for lands along the Kingston Road Corridor within the Birch Cliff Community.”

Of the 216 proposed residential units, 10 of them will be rental replacements to cover the existing units now on the site. The breakdown of those rental replacement units is one studio; four one-bedroom units; and five two-bedroom units.

Of the 206 new units proposed, three of them are studios; 89 are one-bedrooms; 12 are one-bedrooms plus den; 29 are one-bedrooms plus den with two bathrooms; 31 are two-bedrooms; 15 are two-bedrooms plus den; and 27 are three-bedrooms.

For more information on this proposal, contact City of Toronto Senior Planner John Lyon at John.Lyon@toronto.ca or 416-394-8101.