Plans Filed For City-Led Affordable Housing Development In Parkdale
Once approved, the development would deliver 42 rent-geared-to-income apartments, with rents not exceeding 30% of each resident’s income.
Nearly a year after being selected as Toronto's first City-led development site, building plans have been filed for 11 Brock Avenue — a four-storey affordable housing development in Parkdale.
The plans, which were filed in late-September, were submitted by SvN Architects + Planners on behalf of Govan Brown Building Group, the Housing Secretariat, and Corporate Real Estate Management at the City of Toronto. As a Rapid Rehousing Initiative (RHI) project, the application is being assessed via the City's Priority Development Review Stream and is projected to break ground before the end of the year.
Once approved, the development would deliver 42 rent-geared-to-income apartments, with rents not exceeding 30% of each resident’s income. The private apartments would contain a kitchen and bathroom, and shared amongst the residents would be a laundry room, commercial kitchen, and programming spaces. Affordable housing applicants will be able to choose from a proposed mix of 22 studio apartments, 12 accessible studios, six one-bedrooms, and two accessible one-bedrooms.
The building itself will sit on an 11,345 sq. ft square-shaped lot with frontage on Brock Avenue and Noble Street and feature wood siding and floor-to-ceiling windows along the ground floor, giving the exterior a sleek, fresh appearance. At the Brock Avenue entrance, the wood siding sweeps inwards to frame the doors, which are encompassed by an eye-catching blue-coloured portion of the facade. Overall, the structure has an elevated and welcoming quality to it.
Within the building will be a 1,205 sq. ft south-facing courtyard with trees and seating areas, plus an additional 1,507 sq. ft of outdoor amenity space on two elevated tiers above the courtyard. There will also be 1,991 sq. ft of indoor amenity space and a total of 50 bicycle parking spaces for residents to use and enjoy.
Once completed, the development will be leased and operated by Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre (PARC), an operator of supportive homes in Toronto for adults experiencing mental health and substance use challenges, many with a history of homelessness.
