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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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151 Front Street West

Located within downtown Toronto, 151 Front Street West represented an exceptional, but complex redevelopment opportunity. Urban Strategies was retained to work as part of a team that included Thomas Tampold Architects, to design and gain approvals for a high-quality, contemporary commercial building that would fulfill numerous City objectives. Extremely well...

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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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Steeles Technology Campus

In 1998, Call-Net Enterprises, owner of Sprint Canada, proposed a head office campus in Toronto and retained Urban Strategies to help develop a master plan and lead the planning approvals process. The plan envisioned mid-rise, large-floorplate buildings surrounding a landscaped quadrangle. Faced with a tight project schedule and complex traffic...

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East Harbour

Since 2017, Urban Strategies has been working to transform Toronto’s East Harbour, a former industrial area on the banks of the Don River and the site of the abandoned Unilever soap factory. The master plan implements a vision for an animated and complete mixed-use community. The proposed plan is structured...

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Queens Quay LCBO

Urban Strategies Inc. was originally retained by Infrastructure Ontario (IO) in 2011 to prepare an optimal use study for the redevelopment of the Queens Quay LCBO site. As an 11-acre waterfront parcel in downtown Toronto, the site presented a variety of opportunities for significant intensification and redevelopment to support a...

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505 Richmond Street West

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

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Anishnawbe Health Toronto Aboriginal Hub

Urban Strategies has been retained by Anishnawbe Health Toronto to provide strategic design input and planning approvals services for a proposed Aboriginal Community Hub in the West Donlands in Toronto, Ontario. Located at the intersection of Cherry Street and Front Street East, the Aboriginal Community Hub will serve as a...

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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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3080 Yonge Street

3080 Yonge Street is a nearly 40 year old building at the intersection of Yonge Street and Lawrence Avenue in uptown Toronto, that provides a combination of employment space, services and retail as well as an entrance into Lawrence Subway Station. Urban Strategies was retained by First Capital Reality to...

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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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New Toronto Courthouse

Urban Strategies was retained by Infrastructure Ontario to lead the planning approvals process for the zoning envelope of Ontario’s first tower courthouse, on an underutilized parking lot site in downtown Toronto. This process was undertaken concurrently with functional programming. The project required a high degree of coordination amongst several internal...

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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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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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CIBC Square

Ivanhoé Cambridge and Hines has partnered with Metrolinx to secure development approvals for a significant mixed-use office development at 81 and 141 Bay Street, known as CIBC Square formerly Bay Park Centre. In April 2017, CIBC was announced as the new anchor tenant for this development. The development includes two office towers, including 2.9...

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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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Canada Life Headquarters

Adason Properties, the wholly-owned real estate arm of the Canada Life Assurance Company, is one of several development companies that retain Urban Strategies for ongoing planning and urban design advice. In 1988, Adason retained Urban Strategies to prepare a master plan for redevelopment of its head office property in downtown Toronto. Envisioning a campus-like...

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Bridgepoint Health Master Plan

Urban Strategies was retained by Bridgepoint Health to develop a comprehensive plan to guide the long-term redevelopment of a large, strategic site overlooking the Don River Valley and next door to a thriving urban community. The site contains Bridgepoint Health’s existing, functionally obsolete hospital, the Don Jail and other buildings, and is isolated from its...

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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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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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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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Casey House – 571 Jarvis Street

In 2011, Urban Strategies Inc. was retained to secure approvals for the redevelopment of 571 Jarvis Street in order to accommodate Casey House’s expansion. Urban Strategies was responsible for shepherding the approvals of the project, which was given Gold Star priority because of its high profile and value to the...

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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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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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Bay Adelaide Centre

With the Bay-Adelaide Centre West Tower under construction, Brookfield Properties retained Urban Strategies in 2007 to undertake master planning, technical modelling and approvals to support the redevelopment of the remainder of the site. Following a brief master plan study for the site, Urban Strategies successfully led the East Tower through...

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Transformation AGO

The Art Gallery of Ontario retained architect Frank Gehry to redesign its building, compelled by the need to accommodate an outstanding gift of over 2,000 works of art from Mr. Kenneth Thomson. To engage the community and the City in the expansion plans, Urban Strategies developed a public communications strategy that included a series...

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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...