In this week’s instalment of the UTPro Instant Report, we take our software outside the limits of the City of Toronto for the first time, to explore development trends taking shape in one of the rapidly emerging nodes of the GTA. Using our Custom Report feature, we chose to generate a data set containing the key information and stats on every project within an 800m radius of a street address in the City of Brampton.
Today’s Custom Report zooms in on 60 Queen Street West, just west of the Four Corners in the heart of Brampton, an area now seeing a lot of interest in redevelopment. Both Queen and Main streets are actively programmed with a mix of uses including retail, dining, office space, civic workers and college space, while the city’s central transit hub at Brampton GO station lies within the 800m radius, making the area a natural candidate for the recent attention, with a focus on residential intensification.
Our Custom Report for the area surrounding 60 Queen Street West returned a list of 11 projects, two of which were recently completed, while the remaining nine are all proceeding through the planning process. By chance, there are no projects here currently under construction, a breather between recent work and quite a number of upcoming projects at this growing node.
45 Railroad is one of the two recently completed projects. The market-rate rental project was completed just last year, delivering a pair of 25-storey towers above a shared podium, and incorporating a preserved heritage building as the complex’s podium. The project is a stone’s throw away from Brampton GO station, and demonstrates a working model for the approval of high-rise projects with a transit oriented scope.
Another two-tower project close by is 31-33 George Street, but this is one of the several projects in the area still in planning. It stands out in this group for its scale, with towers of 34 and 42 storeys, with a total of 771 new units that are also planned as rentals. The project also has a hotel component to it, plus other commercial uses, capitalizing on its central location and delivering a plan that looks beyond the demand for residential uses in the revitalizing Downtown context.
From the statistics that accompany our Custom Report, we can see that developers are being ambitious with their proposals here. Looking at the height data across the 11 projects, we can see that the average height comes in at 112.9m tall, giving a median count of 30.5 storeys.
One thing we might infer from this data set is that Brampton is trying to steer the inevitable era of aggressive development onto a transit oriented course that will encourage sustainable models of intensification. With the existing GO Transit network, and the impending arrival of a new LRT line connecting to Mississauga, Brampton will have the right recipe for infrastructure to support this kind of density.
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As UrbanToronto continues to refine its role in the GTA development industry, our data services have evolved to become one of our defining elements and we want to share those capabilities with our community. The UrbanToronto Pro Instant Reports is just one of the ways our data can be applied to provide quick and convenient insights on the development trends of any area in the GTA. Using this advanced data resource, we are launching a new weekly series to highlight what the UT Pro Instant Reports provide and investigate the latest development trends by ward, by address, or by MLS zone.