491 Glencairn Condos

491 Glencairn Condos is a new condo development at 491 Glencairn Avenue, Toronto located right at Bathurst and Glencairn, Toronto. This development is located just north of Toronto’s Forest Hill neighbourhood having 12 storey mixed use residential tower with retail space on the ground level. A total of 150 residential units on the southeast corner of Bathurst Street and Glencairn Avenue by Core Architects.

The architect of this project is Core Architects and Terraplan Landscape Architects.

Based in the Bedford Park-Nortown neighbourhood in Toronto, this condominium 491 Glencairn Condos will have a two-level mechanical penthouse with a 2-level residential unit.  Total height excluding elevator over-run is 38.5 metres. One hundred and fifty dwelling units are proposed consisting of 22 studio units, 62 one-bedroom units, 26 one-bedroom plus den units, 17 two-bedroom units and 23 three-bedroom units.  Total gross floor area is 12,609 square metres of which 12,132 square metres is the residential gross floor area.  There will be terraces and balconies throughout the building.  Due to the grade differential, approximately 542 square metres of the total GFA is below the established grade of 180.65 metres. There is also a three-storey base building element proposed consisting of six townhouse units which is approximately 9.5 metres in height and will be set back 6 metres from the lot line in order to create the front yard landscaped open space along the street edge.

Parking is proposed in three levels of underground garage for 149 vehicular parking spaces out of which 122 are for residents, 26 are for commercial and one is for car share.  125 bicycle parking spaces proposed of which 91 will be for the residents and 34 will be for visitors.  There is also indoor and outdoor amenity space proposed of which 262 square metres will be for indoor amenity use space located on Levels 1 and 2 and 227 square metres will be for outdoor amenity use space on Levels 2 and the Lower Penthouse Level.