219-223 Bank St + 178 Nepean St | 32m | 9f | Proposed
217 Nepean Street Holdings Inc. and 211-231 Bank Street Holdings Inc. (Smart Living Properties) are proposing to construct a nine (9) storey residential use addition above the heritage contributing buildings located at 178 Nepean, 219 and 223 Bank Street. The proposed addition will create a total of 263 residential units consisting of a mix of bachelors to three-bedroom suites. Additionally, the development will reinstate ground floor retail-commercial space to provide up to five (5) total non-residential units with frontage onto Bank Street. Communal amenity spaces are proposed indoors within the main floor as well as outdoors on multiple rooftops including above the podium and above the 9th floor (rooftop). Private amenity spaces are also proposed on balconies. The development proposes 434 bicycle parking spaces and a bike repair area located internally to the building. The proposed development does not provide any vehicle parking or driveways on site.
The proposed addition retains the original roof ridgeline of the existing heritage contributing buildings, and steps back approximately 3 to 3.9 metres past the third floor to extend the new residential addition up to a height of six floors, after which the building steps back an additional 1.2 metres for a height of up to nine (9) storeys. The addition retains the two (2) storey building at 178 Nepean Street, and provides a continuous nine (9) storeys above. Along the back, the proposed addition is designed to create a courtyard around the rooftop of the one (1)-storey podium.
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