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• The New Broadview House Hotel, a 4-storey building built in 1891,<br />
which anchors the northwest corner of Queen Street and Broadview<br />
Avenue (704 Queen Street East). It was originally the A.W. Dingam<br />
Shops and was listed on the City’s inventory of heritage properties by<br />
Council on December 10, 1975. It was recently purchased by Streetcar<br />
Developments.<br />
Further north, the area is predominantly comprised of low-rise residential uses<br />
including detached, semi-detached and rowhouse dwellings, as well as officeindustrial<br />
buildings along the Don Valley Parkway. The area also includes a recently<br />
constructed residential development by Toronto Community Housing Corporation<br />
(Don Mount Court/Rivertowne), which consists of 232 social housing replacement<br />
units, including a 4-storey, 56-unit apartment building and 176 stacked townhouse<br />
and back-to-back stacked townhouse units, 187 market units in low-rise stacked<br />
townhouses and a new park (Joel Weeks Park). The Don Mount Court/Rivertowne<br />
development is generally bounded by Dundas Street, Carroll Street, Thompson<br />
Street and Hamilton Street.<br />
704 Queen Street East<br />
To the immediate east of the site, fronting on Queen Street, is a 3-storey converted<br />
dwelling at 685 Queen Street East used for multi-residential purposes. A 2-storey<br />
commercial-residential block is located at 687 to 703 Queen Street East. At the<br />
southwest corner of Queen Street and Broadview Avenue is a one-storey retail<br />
building at 705 Queen Street East (Starbank Convenience), with limited surface<br />
parking at the rear. These buildings can also be accessed from the public lane<br />
located to the immediate south.<br />
685 Queen Street East<br />
705 Queen Street East<br />
687-703 Queen Street East<br />
On the south side of the public lane, and east of an approximate 6.0 metre<br />
wide private lane along the east site limit, is a recently constructed mixed-use<br />
development at 90-100 Broadview Avenue. The development consists of a<br />
7-storey building on the north portion of the site, which incorporates a retained<br />
3½-storey converted warehouse/office building (100 Broadview Avenue), and a<br />
new 10-storey residential building at 90 Broadview Avenue (The Ninety). Together,<br />
the 90-100 Broadview Avenue development includes a total of 222 residential<br />
units.<br />
90 Broadview Avenue<br />
South of the 90-100 Broadview Avenue development is a residential development<br />
at 60-68 Broadview Avenue known as Broadview Lofts, which was completed<br />
in 2004-2005. The development consists of a 7-storey, 154-unit converted<br />
100 Broadview Avenue<br />
<strong>PLANNING</strong> & <strong>URBAN</strong> <strong>DESIGN</strong> <strong>RATIONALE</strong> | 79 East Don Roadway & 677 Queen Street East 11
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