2 new highrise condos proposed for downtown Kingston – Kingston | 24CA News
Downtown Kingston’s already bustling development skyline might get much more crowded within the months to come back.
Two extra highrise constructing purposes have been submitted to metropolis planners, just some blocks other than one another.
A developer is proposing to assemble a 14-storey, 158-unit residential constructing on a portion of the north facet parking zone adjoining to the OHIP constructing alongside Wellington Street.
According to paperwork submitted to town by Arcadis IBI Group on behalf of the developer, the residential condo improvement at 279 Wellington St. would occupy a outstanding waterfront location alongside Kingston’s Inner Harbour.
“The proposal aims to invigorate the under-utilized parcel by complementing the existing function and character of the area, increasing accessibility and safety, and supporting an intensifying area with a vibrant and active residential development,” the applying from the developer says.
The developer says the present Ontario Health Ministry (OHIP) and provincial courtroom constructing would stay.
The residential proposal consists of a mixture of items starting from studio to three-bedroom residences with three live-work items on the bottom ground.
The residential constructing would sit atop a five-floor parking podium with 262 parking areas, 94 of which might be assigned to the present workplace constructing to interchange the misplaced floor parking areas.
The website additionally consists of the conveyance of a three-metre-wide pedestrian walkway alongside the japanese facet as a part of town’s waterfront grasp plan.
The applicant is in search of a zoning bylaw modification to permit the development.
Just blocks away, a 25-storey residential constructing is deliberate on the positioning of the present Goodlife Fitness constructing at 64 Barrack St.
The developer, IN8 Developments, is proposing a mixed-use podium-tower constructing with a complete of 287 residential items and ground-floor business house.
The tall, skinny constructing would come with a mixture of one, two and three-bedroom items that can “provide a critical mass of people in the downtown and in close proximity to historic Princess Street,” in line with an city design examine by Fotenn Planning and Design.
This proposal additionally seeks zoning bylaw approvals.
These two high-rise buildings come because the downtown core has exploded with residential buildings in recent times, together with a 12-storey Crown condominium constructing below development on Queen Street and a 19- and 23-storey pair of Homestead Land Holding’s now below development on decrease Queen Street.
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