Quarry Lands building plans on hold as developer returns deposits to those who had purchased in Birchley Park project
The building of housing on the Quarry Lands area in southwest Scarborough is on hold as the developer of the project known as Birchley Park announced this week that it would be reassessing its future plans for the area.
“Due to ongoing challenges in the Canadian real estate market, we’ve made the difficult decision to release condominium unit purchases at Birchley Park as we reassess future plans for the site,” said developers Diamond Kilmer in a statement on the Birchley Park website.
“All purchase deposits have been returned in full, with interest. We are taking this time to reevaluate Birchley Park to ensure it better reflects the evolving needs of Toronto’s housing market,” continued the statement by Diamond Kilmer Developments.
Located northeast of Victoria Park Avenue and Gerrard Street East, and south of the railroad tracks, the property has been the focus of development plans and discussion in the community for decades.
In 2021, the Birchley Park plan was approved by Toronto Council. The plan would have seen a neighbourhood of mixed housing featuring buildings of six to 10-storeys in height and townhouses.
At the time of its approval, the project was viewed as one of East Toronto’s largest “brownfield” reclamation projects.
Work in the area including the laying out of roads, sewers and a large hole just east Victoria Park Avenue and north of the FreschCo parking lot has been ongoing for a number of years. However, in recent months the pace of work and amount of construction equipment on the site became visibly reduced. At this time, no buildings have been constructed on the Birchley Park site.
Beach Metro Community News will be reaching out to the developer and Scarborough Southwest Councillor Parthi Kandavel for further reaction on this breaking story.
