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DEVELOPMENT<\/a>\u00a0PLANNING<\/a>
June 01, 2026 by Anthony Teles\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0549\u00a0<\/p>\n

32-Storey Rental Tower Proposed Behind Heritage Facades on Jarvis Street<\/p>\n

Along a stretch of Jarvis Street lined with some of the area\u2019s oldest surviving buildings, plans have been filed to redevelop\u00a0211 Jarvis Street<\/a> in Toronto\u2019s Garden District with a 32-storey mixed-use rental tower. Designed by\u00a0Arcadis<\/a> for\u00a0Manga Hotels<\/a>, the proposal would not include hotel suites, but instead deliver rental units and ground-floor retail space while retaining the street-facing facades of seven heritage-designated 19th-century rowhouses, overseen by\u00a0ERA Architects<\/a>. The site is within walking distance of Yonge Line 1 and future\u00a0Ontario Line 3<\/a> stations, and therefore\u00a0within both the TMU (Dundas) and Moss Park station<\/a> Protected Major Transit Station Areas.<\/p>\n

Looking east to 211 Jarvis Street, designed by Arcadis for Manga Hotels<\/p>\n

The site is on the east side of Jarvis Street north of Shuter Street, spanning 207 through 219 Jarvis Street, seven contiguous three-storey heritage-designated rowhouses dating to the late 19th century and currently containing rental housing. Situated within the Garden District, the site is surrounded by a mix of residential, institutional, commercial, and hospitality uses characteristic of Downtown Toronto. Manga Hotels\u2019 32-storey\u00a0TOOR Hotel and The 203 Residences on Jarvis<\/a>, completed in 2024, stands directly to the south.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Looking east to the current site, image from submission to City of Toronto<\/p>\n

While the surrounding area has intensified considerably, the seven rowhouses have remained as surviving examples of Jarvis Street\u2019s 19th-century built form. Now,\u00a0Goldberg Group<\/a> has submitted Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendment applications, along with a Rental Housing Demolition and Conversion application, to the City of Toronto on behalf of the developer.<\/p>\n

The proposal calls for a 32-storey mixed-use building reaching 108.7m. A three-storey podium would incorporate the retained heritage facades along Jarvis Street, while the tower element above would rise from an approximately 750m\u00b2 floor-plate. The development would contain 22,530m\u00b2 of Gross Floor Area, including 22,153m\u00b2 devoted to residential use and 377m\u00b2 of ground-floor retail space, resulting in a Floor Space Index of 13.2 times coverage of the 1,704m\u00b2 assembly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Site plan, designed by Arcadis for Manga Hotels<\/p>\n

A total of 315 rental units are proposed, comprising 277 new market rental units and 38 rental replacement units. The suite mix would include 15 studios, 179 one-bedroom units, 92 two-bedroom units, and 29 three-bedroom-plus units. Residents would be served by three elevators, equating to one elevator for every 105 units, indicating that high speed motors would be necessary to provide good response times when all elevators are in service. Indoor and outdoor amenity spaces would be distributed across the third, fourth, and eighth floors, providing a combined 1,310m\u00b2 of amenity area, including 831m\u00b2 indoors and 479m\u00b2 outdoors.<\/p>\n

Ground floor plan, designed by Arcadis for Manga Hotels<\/p>\n

The heritage strategy centres on retaining the primary Jarvis Street facades of all seven rowhouses in situ, along with a portion of the north facade of 219 Jarvis Street. The retained buildings would form the base of the development, with upper-storey step-backs before a recessed reveal, intended to maintain views of the historic rooflines.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Looking southeast to the podium and heritage homes, image from submission to City of Toronto<\/p>\n

There would be an approximate 20m separation from the TOOR Hotel and The 203 Residences on Jarvis to the south and roughly 22m from the approved tower at 225 Jarvis Street to the north. Below grade, a three-level underground garage would contain 66 parking spaces, including 61 resident spaces and five visitor spaces. Bicycle facilities would include 348 spaces, split between 284 long-term and 64 short-term spaces.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lobby entrance, designed by Arcadis for Manga Hotels<\/p>\n

TMU station is located approximately 650m to the northwest, while Queen station is roughly 750m to the southwest. Future rapid transit access would be strengthened by the under-construction Moss Park station on the Ontario Line 3, located approximately 450m southeast of the site near Queen and Sherbourne streets. Multiple surface transit routes are within walking distance of the site. Nearby cycling infrastructure includes bike lanes on Shuter and Queen streets, cycle tracks on Sherbourne Street, and routes linking through Moss Park.<\/p>\n

An aerial view of the site and surrounding context, image from submission to City of Toronto<\/p>\n

The proposal arrives amid continued redevelopment activity across the eastern portion of Downtown Toronto. To the immediate north of the site,\u00a0Missoni Sky<\/a> is planned at 68 storeys. To the south,\u00a0Hotel Beebop<\/a> is planned at 9 storeys. To the north,\u00a0Toronto Metropolitan University<\/a> is advancing its 14-storey\u00a0Science Building<\/a>. Northeast, plans have been submitted for 44-storey and 52-storey towers at\u00a0218<\/a> and\u00a0239 Dundas Street East<\/a>, respectively, while a 61-storey tower at\u00a018 Dalhousie Street<\/a> is proposed to the southwest.<\/p>\n

UrbanToronto will continue to follow progress on this development, but in the meantime, you can learn more about it from our Database file, linked below. If you’d like, you can join in on the conversation in the associated Project Forum thread or leave a comment in the space provided on this page.<\/p>\n

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UrbanToronto’s research and data service,\u00a0UTPro<\/a>, provides comprehensive data on construction projects in the Greater Golden Horseshoe\u2014from proposal through to completion. Other services include\u00a0Instant Reports<\/a>, downloadable snapshots based on location, and a daily subscription newsletter,\u00a0New Development Insider<\/a>, that tracks projects from initial application.\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEVELOPMENT\u00a0PLANNINGJune 01, 2026 by Anthony Teles\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0549\u00a0 32-Storey Rental Tower Proposed Behind Heritage Facades on Jarvis Street Along a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-708556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}