Replacement of expansive dealership, service centre, in step with a post-car future
A proposed mixed-use development in Toronto, currently the site of a flourishing car dealership, may be a harbinger of the city’s postcar future.
“The view for a while has been that you can transform areas in dense, downtown urban areas into less car-dependent developments, but the reality is that you can do it here, too,” says Sami Kazemi, principal at BDP Quadrangle, the Leslie Street project’s architect. Though the site is in Toronto, it’s 13.5 kilometres – and many traffic jams – from the central intersection of Yonge and Bloor streets.
“The whole business model for dealers needs to be rethought,” says Wes Neichenbauer, co-president of Rowntree Enterprises, the Leslie Street site’s lead developer, which has built its business on establishing sites for car dealerships. “We’re thinking about how you build for peoples’ mobility using all forms of transportation, not just car ownership.For now, the site, at the crossroads of two major arterial roads and near the Don Valley Parkway, is still home to a Toyota and Lexus dealership, its history steeped in car lore.
Toronto's Eglinton-Crosstown LRT line will have a stop adjacent to the property and the nearby Sunnybrook Park.The city’s new Eglinton-Crosstown LRT line will have a major stop at the foot of the hilltop property . Mr. Kazemi says the development plans will include walkways and sheltered areas to make it easy for people to come and go to the new Sunnybrook Park LRT station. There will be less emphasis on catering to cars.
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