Towering Mixed-Use Development Proposed for Vaughan's Downtown
Urbantoronto.ca
December 2, 2019
Jack Landau
An application submitted to the City of Vaughan proposes a three-tower redevelopment of 3300 Highway 7 in the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre area, the suburban Toronto city's downtown now forming around the 2017-opened subway station of the same name. The proposal from Ripple Developments and designed by Quadrangle calls for two residential towers and an office building all rising from a shared podium, on the current site of a mid-rise office building its associated surface parking lot.
The buildings are proposed at heights of 58 storeys / 183.3 metres, 55 storeys / 177.3 metres, and 15 storeys / 78.1 metres. The tallest of these falls just shy of the height of Vaughan's future tallest building, the CG Tower, while two of the three towers would far exceed the city's current tallest buildings, the topped out 124-metre Nord East and Nord West towers at Expo City, as well as the under-construction Transit City towers with heights of 176 metres.
The entire development is proposed with a gross floor area (GFA) of 137,353 m². The majority of this space is proposed as residential within the two tall towers, while 29,683 m² office space is proposed within the 15-storey tower and 1,332 m² retail space is proposed within the podium connecting the three buildings.
The residential component consists of a total 1,191 units across the two towers, planned in a mix of 725 one-bedrooms, 461 two-bedrooms, and 5 three-bedrooms.
