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Growing Up: Planning For Children in New Vertical Communities

In 2015, Urban Strategies was retained by the City of Toronto to develop a series of guidelines to support the growing number of families living in buildings with five or more storeys. In order to determine the needs of families living in vertical communities, USI along with its consultant team...

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Parkside Village – Mississauga City Centre

Urban Strategies worked with AMACON Developments to prepare a comprehensive 30 acre master plan that significantly expands Mississauga’s City centre. The design combines 5,300 new residential units, retail shops, hotel and conference services, public parks and open spaces and a new public street network into one of the largest developments...

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Casa Condo Residenza, Children’s Aid Society of Canada

Urban Strategies Inc. worked with the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto to realize one of the Society’s long-standing goals: to create a new head office facility providing centralized services to children and their families from across Toronto. In 2000, we were retained to establish the redevelopment potential of the Society’s...

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505 Richmond Street West, “The Water Works”

MOD Developments Inc. and Woodcliffe Landmark Properties Inc. have developed a new landmark adaptive reuse project at 505 Richmond Street West, in the King- Spadina neighbourhood. The new development has been designed as an animated community hub with a vertically integrated mix of uses, including market-rate residential condominiums, affordable units...

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Marché Central

Urban Strategies has been helping Bentall Kennedy identify opportunities for realizing the full development potential of their Marché Central property in Montreal. As part of this undertaking, our team developed a vision and master plan for a lifestyle centre that included a series of options for how the site could...

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Bloor & Bathurst (Honest Ed’s)

Urban Strategies was retained by Westbank to assist with approvals for the redevelopment of their land holdings at Bloor and Bathurst, including Honest Ed’s and Mirvish Village. We worked with Westbank, Henriquez Partner Architects and Janet Rosenberg Landscape Architects to develop a concept for the site that is sensitive to...

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Celestica Development Proposal

Urban Strategies Inc. has been retained to develop a conceptual Master Plan for Celestica’s approximately 60 acre global headquarters and manufacturing facilities site in Toronto, Ontario. Developed in support of an application to convert a portion of the site from employment use to mixed use, the conceptual master plan incorporates...

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100 Yorkville Avenue

100 Yorkville is a mixed-use project developed by Barclay-Grayson in Toronto’s upscale Yorkville shopping area. The site previously comprised a series of privately owned surface parking lots on the historic site of Mount Sinai Hospital. This condomiun project will reinvigorate the core of Yorkville Avenue, reconnecting the retail along the...

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440 Dufferin Street Redevelopment

Urban Strategies was retained by Siteline Group to obtain an Official Plan Amendment and rezoning to permit a residential mixed-use redevelopment at 440 Dufferin Street. Located on the west side of Dufferin just north of Queen, the site was designated as an Employment Area and required a re-designation to permit...

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10 Ann Street Redevelopment

Urban Strategies was retained by FRAM Building Group to assist in the development approvals process for the property at 10 Ann Street in Mississauga. Located in the heart of Port Credit, the site is proposed to be redeveloped with a 15-storey residential condominium building that will support community growth and...

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Sterling Road Redevelopment

Urban Strategies has been working with Castlepoint since 2010 on its development plans for the former Rio Tinto employment lands on Sterling Road in the City of Toronto. The Sterling Road site is nestled within the Junction Triangle mixed employment-residential area. Urban Strategies worked closely with the developer, City staff,...

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19 Duncan Street

Urban Strategies is currently working with Westbank Properties to provide planning services in support of an application for the redevelopment of 19 Duncan Street. As part of a broader consultant team, Urban Strategies conducted a planning review and massing study during the conceptualization phase of design, and is currently preparing...

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Galleria Mall Redevelopment

Urban Strategies has led the master planning and development approvals process for the redevelopment and re-urbanization of Galleria Mall since 2015. This includes the integration of the Wallace Emerson Community Centre. The overarching goal of the project is to reconnect the site to its surrounding urban fabric while enhancing the...

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Grandin Parc Village

Urban Strategies worked with Amacon to develop a revised master plan for an aging shopping centre in St. Albert, Alberta. Amacon acquired the site in 2008 and secured approvals for a mixed-use redevelopment including some 1,200 units. Urban Strategies worked closely with Amacon to revise the approved scheme to better...

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Rideau Heights Regeneration Strategy

The Rideau Heights Regeneration Strategy remakes a 32-hectare, 1960s social housing complex in Kingston into a new mixed-income neighborhood with market condominiums, new park configurations and better street connections. The multi-phased, 25-year Strategy aims to improve the safety and functionality of the neighbourhood, better integrate it with the surrounding community,...

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The Well

In 2008, Osmington Inc. hired Urban Strategies to start the process of transforming the Globe and Mail lands into an iconic legacy project for the city. The site is one of the last high profile landholdings along the Front Street corridor. Urban Strategies prepared a planning policy review and master...

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Tottenham Regeneration Strategy

Urban Strategies were retained in 2013 to prepare a Strategic Regeneration Framework for Tottenham, a deprived and troubled district in north-east London. Tottenham is however home to Spurs, a premier league football club who have ambitious plans for the construction of a new stadium. The White Hart Lane site is...

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481 University Ave.

In 2011, Urban Strategies Inc. was retained to provide urban planning and urban design expertise to a proposed development at 481 University Avenue. The site, which is located in downtown Toronto’s Discovery District and has direct access to the city’s subway and streetcar network, encompassed a full city block and...

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Alexandra Park Revitalization

Urban Strategies worked with the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) to develop and implement a revitalization plan for the Alexandra Park neighbourhood. This is an 18-acre social housing development built in the 1970s in Downtown Toronto. Urban Strategies was engaged starting in 2009 to develop a master plan for Alexandra...

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A Citizens’ Guide to Density

The density targets for Urban Growth Centres and Designated Greenfield Areas set out in Ontario’s Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, are intended to help shape dense and transit-supportive complete communities. In practice though, this concept has shown to be difficult to conceptualize. Noticing this problem in our planning practice has led us...

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Pinnacle on Adelaide

Urban Strategies was retained by Pinnacle International in 2008 to secure the planning and development approvals for the mixed use redevelopment of 295 Adelaide West and 100-104 John Street. City Council approved the zoning by-law amendment in 2010, permitting the development of a 43-storey building with retail and restaurant uses...

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Deerhurst Resort Village Centre Plan

Deerhurst Resort is popular retreat in Ontario’s Muskoka region. Established in 1896, it now encompasses 760 acres and includes several remarkable natural assets, such as a shoreline along Peninsula Lake and the Muskoka River. Despite its history in the region and its amenities, the Resort lacks a clear vision for future development. Today, it...

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Humbertown Master Plan

Responding to a design competition hosted by First Capital Realty, Urban Strategies and Levitt Goodman Architects joined forces to create a winning proposal that built upon the spirit of the original 1950s plaza design while responding to contemporary planning objectives to create more complete communities. The result is a fully...

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Mimico 2020 Revitalization Action Plan

The goal of the Mimico 20/20: A Revitalization Action Plan was to bring forward the established Mimico Vision & Community Priorities through the creation of an area-wide conceptual redevelopment scheme for this historic waterfront community. A major component of the study process was the four-day Mimico 20/20 Revitalization Charette. The...

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B Street Condo Development

In 2010, Urban Strategies was retained to lead the municipal approval process for the award-winning B-Street Condo development at Bathurst and Bloor Streets. The development is a mixed residential-commercial building designed by Hariri Pontarini Architects. A nine-storey mid-rise style building, the building represents an example of sensitive infill that is...

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Allenbury Gardens

Since 2010, Urban Strategies has been providing master planning and development approvals support to Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) to advance the master planned redevelopment of Allenbury Gardens. The Allenbury Gardens community is located in north Toronto and has been a part of TCHC’s social housing portfolio since 1965. Like...

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York University Development Corporation Planning Services

Image Above: ARK Architects York University is one of the leading universities in the GTA. Continued student growth and the construction of the Spadina Subway extension represent opportunities to transform the campus of York University, improve its relationship with the rest of the city and help attract and retain more...

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Toronto Community Housing Vendor of Record

Urban Strategies has been retained as a planning consultant for Toronto Community Housing, to provide advice on the management, assessment, disposition of the Corporation’s real estate portfolio management needs. Specifically, we are assisting in the evaluation of numerous TCHC properties that have been identified as potential redevelopment sites, providing site...

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Centre for Addiction & Mental Health

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), a World Health Organization Centre of Excellence, was created in 1998 through the amalgamation of four separate mental health and addiction facilities. CAMH decided that its Queen Street site, in a residential neighbourhood in Downtown Toronto, would be the hub for the...

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Build Toronto Downsview Development Site

The Downsview Secondary Plan area comprises approximately 530 hectares in total and is generally bounded by Keele Street to the west, Wilson Heights Boulevard to the east, Sheppard Avenue to the north and Wilson Avenue and Highway 401 to the south. Since the approval of the Downsview Area Secondary Plan in...

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Markham Cornell Precinct Plan

The Town of Markham retained Urban Strategies in 2011 to prepare a Precinct Plan for Cornell Centre, the future heart of the Markham’s growing Cornell community. The Cornell Centre Precinct Plan will provide detailed planning and design direction to ensure the development of a high density, mixed use centre that serves the needs of the...

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Advent Health Care Seniors Community

Urban Strategies was retained by Advent Health Care Corporation to develop a Master Plan for a retirement community on a former Hospital site in Toronto. Though responsibility for the governance, management and operation of the facility had been transferred to North York General Hospital in the early 1990’s, Advent Health Care and The Ontario...

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18 Yorkville Wittington

18 Yorkville Avenue is a distinctive mixed-use development consisting of a seven story podium anchoring a 36 storey residential tower with retail at grade on the Yonge Street frontage. This luxurious building was one of the first new residential buildings built Toronto’s Yorkville area after many years of inactivity, bringing...