The tallest condo in the country could be coming to Bloor Street

Property firm Morguard is pushing to build Canada’s tallest condo building on top of the Holt Renfrew at Bloor and Yonge, and has irked local councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam in the process. An 83-storey tower is already a tough sell, and then the developers went and submitted the rezoning application though Wong-Tam had asked them to hold off and make some changes (Morguard said it did so to avoid new application fees). The process of rezoning to accomodate a tower with 600 units will likely take over nine months—or longer, given that Wong-Tam has said “the planning staff, the urban design staff, no one is ready to approve this project. It’s got a long way to go.”  The skyscraper would go up steps away from what was meant to be Canada’s highest condo, One Bloor, which was originally envisioned as an 81-storey tower before the 2008 recession hit and a new developer shortened it to 70 storeys. Meaning we’ll believe the “tallest in the country” title only when the ribbon’s cut. [National Post]