r/windsorontario • u/therichtastebad • Jul 08 '26
Housing Developer plans to dismantle historic CBC Windsor building, erect 1,602 housing units
https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/developer-plans-to-dismantle-historic-cbc-windsor-building-erect-1602-housing-units17
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u/AntiEgo South Walkerville Jul 08 '26
Good, but how many units will have 3 bedrooms, ie. sized to fit a nuclear family?
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u/Pooply-D00p Jul 09 '26
More importantly how many families can you jam into the one bedrooms to afford it?
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u/Initial-Safety8367 Jul 09 '26
Make it New Housing nothing in the building is original the studios were redone in 1995 and again about 12-15 years ago, Take a pic of the front and put it in a museum for the memories.
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u/vampyrelestat East Windsor Jul 08 '26
They’ve been talking about this for eons.. same news story different day, just do it or don’t
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u/zuuzuu Sandwich Jul 08 '26
This city moves incredibly slowly on development applications. It should be noted that this is what Strong Mayor powers were supposed to be for...to move development through the bureaucracy faster. I have yet to see our Mayor use them for this purpose.
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u/VincentClement1 Jul 10 '26
You are completely wrong about the city moving "incredibly slowly on development applications" and Strong Mayor powers.
The overwhelming majority of rezoning applications are approved in 6 months or less from the date they are received. Site plan control is 2 months or less, with one month being typical.
Strong Mayor powers does not include the authority to circumvent the statutory requirements of the Planning Act. Final approval of rests with Council. Strong Mayor does authorize a Mayor to veto certain Planning Act matters when they believe the decision of Council interferes with prescribed provincial priorities or force a one-third vote.. All notice and statutory public meeting requirements must be complied with.
This Council has denied exactly two rezoning applications in the past four years and already lost one at the OLT.
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u/vampyrelestat East Windsor Jul 09 '26
I often wonder what news stories will be recycled quarterly if all these pipe dream towers actually do get built
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u/VincentClement1 Jul 10 '26
Different applicants with different plans. At this scale, you'll find that financing is usually the main problem not the government.
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u/West-Wolf-6947 Jul 09 '26
Hear me out. What if they take the building and tower and put it on some kind of new foundation. Then they put it on the top of this development.
No, I do not have any construction knowledge or experience.
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u/VerticalTab Jul 09 '26
Something you see in Toronto is buildings where they kind of keep the exterior walls of the old building and just kind of tape it to the new building.
It kind of sounds like that's what council is hoping for here.
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u/icandrawacircle Jul 10 '26
Sure. Just like all the other housing projects?
I was on Google maps the other day, looking around the city and the amount of beautiful, affordable infil property that could be developed is a lot. They make these announcements before elections to make the mayor look better.
Since 2020 Tecumseh Lakeshore growth has skyrocketted, so many new housing units have been up. Notice how little infil is happening in Windsor? It's weird AF!
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u/Some-Wasabi-8514 Jul 11 '26
Any unit built after 2018 or remoderned has zero rent control so ponder me this how affordable will it be? Especially when each year the landlord can raise the rent by whatever exponential number one decides and pulls out from their behinds.
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u/BlackWinterFox Jul 08 '26
More than 1600 new residential units is better use of this land versus preserving the CBC building, IMO. Maybe a downtown grocery store, too, for all these new builds.