- What Choice Properties REIT is advancing plans for a 17-storey rental building
- Why The project is part of a multi-tower, transit-oriented development
- What next The City of Toronto will review the application
Choice Properties REIT is looking to advance the rental tower portion of a proposed multi-building development in Toronto’s Scarborough region.
Late last month, the REIT submitted an application to the City of Toronto seeking site plan approval for an L-shaped building with 290 units. The building would comprise a six-storey north-south element connecting to a 17-storey tower.
The units would be studios to three-bedroom suites. Of the planned 152 one-bedroom units, 14 would be at-grade townhouses.
Nearly 13,000 sq ft of amenity space is planned, roughly divided between indoors and outdoors. An underground garage would provide 185 parking spaces.
The building is one of five planned for a transit-oriented, mixed-use development at 685 Warden Avenue. The vacant site is 500m from the Warden subway station and 2km from the Scarborough GO station.
The other towers range from 49 to 32 storeys and would house condominiums and retail space. Nearly 22,000 sq ft of public parkland has also been proposed for the site, which would be bordered on two sides by the L-shaped building.
This project has been in the works as early as 2021, when Choice submitted an application to the city for a larger mixed-use development. The application was appealed to the Ontario Land Tribunal in 2022 and a settlement offer with a scaled-back development was accepted by Toronto City Council early last year.
The City of Toronto will review the site plan application for approval.
