Toronto City Council approves plans for a 99-storey condo tower at 19 Bloor Street West, set to become a new landmark in the city.
An enormous new tower just moved one step closer to approval for Toronto 's Bloor-Yorkville area, the new landmark set to rise an astonishing 99 storeys into what is
At a staggering height of 317.4 metres, the revised plan for 19 Bloor Street West is actually a good deal taller than a previous version proposed a year earlier that was struck down by the City, kicking off an appeals and closed-door negotiation process that shaped the project for an expected approval in the coming months.with an ambitious 94-storey, 302-metre height that would have already been taller than any existing building in Canada .
Talks between these parties led to a revised design that shaved away the tower's massing to increase separation from adjacent buildings, laid out in new elevation diagrams. Though the updated plan in the settlement documents would improve the privacy of residents in adjacent buildings over the previous plan, its increased unit count — now planning almost 1,300 condos — and limited elevator count could make life difficult for residents of the new tower.
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