New details are emerging around the mixed-use development complex proposed for Scarborough’s Golden Mile neighbourhood. Earlier this month, Dream Asset Management Corporation submitted an Official Plan Amendment (OPA) application resubmission and zoning by-law amendments to the City of Toronto to develop a master-planned community at 2200-2206 Eglinton Avenue East. This follows a previous OPA application that was submitted in August 2018, which, according to the submitted proposal documents, has since been revamped to respond to policy framework within the Golden Mile Secondary Area. READ: Former IBM Canada HQ Set to Transform Into 3-Tower Condo Development While the refined proposal maintains the basic structural ingredients of the original 2018 master plan – including the overall street and block plan, the intention to retain existing office uses, and the approach to overall density remains unchanged – refinements to the plan’s built form and open space approaches result in a redevelopment concept that is more varied and appropriate for the site’s current and future context, explains the planning rationale prepared by Urban Strategies Inc. “The vision for the subject site involves the transformation of a currently under-utilized site into a dynamic mixed-use community, with significant employment and residential uses within a 500-metre catchment area of a major transit station area — the future Crosstown LRT stop at Birchmount Road,” reads the planning rationale
