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The challenge
Fit several uses with very different servicing, access and structural needs onto constrained urban sites, while contributing a coherent building and a better public edge.
Canadian Mixed-Use Pipeline
Selected team experience
A portfolio of urban intensification projects combining storage, workplace, retail and residential uses on well-connected sites across the Greater Toronto Area.
- Markets
- Yonge Street, York Mills and Yorkdale
- Program
- Residential, office, retail and storage
- Context
- Urban intensification
- Status
- Planning and development
Development thesis
The idea behind the project.
These projects show how a specialized commercial use can become the base for a much richer urban program. By stacking complementary uses and responding carefully to each context, large-format sites can support jobs, homes, services and stronger streets.
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The strategy
Use vertically integrated planning to place durable commercial functions below residential or office uses, separate circulation where needed, and concentrate active uses at street level.
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SummitRock's role
Selected leadership experience spanning feasibility, planning, development strategy, consultant coordination, approvals and construction planning.
What makes it notable
Details that change the outcome.
Multiple mixed-use intensification sites
Vertical integration of specialized commercial and residential uses
Planning tailored to established urban contexts
Long-term flexibility built into structure and access
Project views
See the thinking take shape.
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