212 King Street West Apartments Summary
Our vision creates a new model for urban life – taking advantage of its location at the nexus of Toronto’s Financial District and King-Spadina neighbourhood to support a truly mixed-use development. The design draws inspiration from the history, materiality and rhythm of the heritage buildings to generate a uniquely contemporary architectural interpretation.
212 King Street West (comprised of 212, 214, 220 King Street West, Toronto) is proposed to be a truly mixed-use tower development with vertically stacked uses that will be home to 900 residents and 6,000 office workers. The building meets the objectives of the city’s Downtown Plan which promotes complete communities, transit-oriented intensification and heritage conservation. The new building sits above the existing heritage buildings and revitalizes the ground floor with active retail and civic uses.
The conceptual approach to the public realm builds upon the King Street Transit Corridor pilot project objectives and permanently reclaims a portion of the right-of-way for the pedestrian realm. The widened sidewalk creates opportunities for outdoor café space, enhanced pedestrian circulation, street furniture and planting.
The design is flexible to allow for day-to-day city life as well as being able to host special events where the entire street is opened to pedestrians.
212 King Street West will include a civic scaled atrium that will also serve as the lobby for the office building. The atrium is designed to activate the building year round, adaptable to host special events and connect to the PATH. In addition, the atrium will extend access to heritage building rooftop spaces, providing vantage points to Roy Thomson Hall, David Pecaut Square, the downtown core and beyond.
212 King Street West will support approximately 6,000 new office and retail jobs in the King-Spadina & Financial District neighbourhoods with 670,000 sq. ft. of commercial space. Not only meeting the needs of today’s employer, the office component is designed to be resilient in the face of current and future changes to the employment landscape.
212 King Street West will be home to 588 units of rental housing to support Toronto’s growing population and employment base. A full range of unit sizes are proposed, including 35% family oriented 2- and 3- bedroom units. Toronto is one of the fastest growing cities and economies in North America with a pre-pandemic housing vacancy rate of 1%, which is driving the need for purpose-built rental housing.
212 King Street West has been designed to build upon its neighbourhood context and rich heritage attributes. We have taken great care to respond to city policy including the goals and objectives of the Downtown Plan and feel the building represents good planning that delivers a number of city-building benefits to Downtown Toronto. We’re committed to city building and the future of Toronto for its residents and businesses.
212 King Street West is located at the heart of Downtown Toronto, where everything comes together at the intersection of the Financial District and the King-Spadina neighbourhoods.
Situated along the King Street Transit Priority Corridor, the site enjoys great transit connectivity via the 504 King streetcar, is a 2-minute (100m) walk to St. Andrew Subway Station, and is a 7-minute walk to Union Station.
The development is directly adjacent to the Simcoe Street cycle track, and will provide a new access point to the PATH, enhancing connectivity to a weather protected pedestrian network that travels throughout the Downtown.