A new tower's worth of condos just went on sale in a building its architects hope will help create a new hub of street life in the core.
The second phase of
Quadrangle's Studio towers--a 41-storey complement to the first, 31-storey tower--will begin construction next month.
"The discussions with the city with respect to the massing on this site were very interesting," says Quadrangle principal Les Klein. "It took a long time for us to uncover that their main concern had to do with the shadowing that might occur on the north side of Queen Street. When we established that this was their concern, we were able to nail down an approach… to eliminate those shadows."
The building, developed by
Aspen Ridge Homes, will include what Klein refers to as a linear park, a quarter-acre green roof five storeys above the street, for tenants' use.
The tower's five-storey podium will, Klein hopes, also create some vibrancy-inducing streetscape.
"I like that Phase 2 is at the corner of Duncan and Nelson," he says, "Nelson being an emerging street leading from the
Shangri-La on the east end to the John Street corridor on the west end. We see this as a major anchor to creating this new public amenity of this upgraded Nelson Street."
If sales go well, Klein expects the tower to follow close on the first tower's heels, and be completed by the beginning of 2015.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Les Klein
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