880 Bay Street Ontario Realty Corporation

880 Bay Street Office Tower

Ontario Realty Corporation is proposing to redevelop approximately 0.85 hectares (2.1 acres) of land in the Queen’s Park Government Office complex (northwest corner of Bay Street and Grosvenor Street), including 880 Bay Street, 60 Grosvenor Street and a portion of 900 Bay Street.

The proposed government office development will consist of a 45-storey building (including a one-storey 7.0 meters mechanical penthouse and 3.0 metre elevator overrun) with a non-residential gross floor area (NRGFA) of approximately 80,662 square metres (867,808 square feet). The proposed height is 192 metres to the top of mechanical penthouse.

The proposed tower dimensions are 84.15 metres by 28.15 metres. The proposal is to provide for the consolidation of the Provincial government office functions currently within the immediate area, from the Greater Toronto Area and the larger Queen’s Park Government Office complex.

The applicant proposes a 5.5 metre wide by 9.0 metre high colonnade on the ground floor along the Street and Grosvenor Street frontages which provides weather protection to pedestrians at street-level

and is an extension of the existing open space and pedestrian circulation systems within the Queen’s
Park Government Office complex. A two-storey podium is proposed at the southwest corner of the site.

The proposed podium will contain the government office lobby, accessory government services and

cafeteria uses, rear loading areas, bicycle parking, and service and mechanical areas. The main entranceof the proposed building is to be located on Bay Street at the northeast corner of the site. This main entrance accesses a public galleria which would be along the entire north portion of the site, access the office lobby. The galleria would be connected to the Macdonald Block to the north. The Grosvenor

Street entrance would also access the office lobby from the south.

The proposed government office building would have a 4.25 metre setback

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