Southport Square

The 34 Southport St. is a residential project by State Building Group located at 34 Southport Sreet in the Swansea neighbourhood of Toronto near High Park and the Gardiner Expressway.  Currently, the parcel of land is an empty vacant lot but was once used to house a commercial plaza.  Future plans are to redevelop the land with at grade retail, residential uses and a "publicly accessible private plaza that will provide a community focal point within the existing neighbourhood".  The 34 Southport Street proposal consists of a mixed-use development that has two proposed towers of 26 and 29 storeys in height connected by a three-storey podium as well as 16 mixed-use townhomes located on the north side of the site.  Building A which is the 26 storey east building that fronts onto Southport Street will be 90.15 metres in height and will also have a minimum of 1,300 square metres of proposed ground floor commercial use space and Building B which is the 29 storey west building will be about 99 metres in height.  The 16 three-storey mixed-use townhouse units (Building C) will be on a separate block and is 11.4 metres in height along the easterly portion of the north lot line and will have approximately 900 square metres of proposed commercial use space.  There are 558 total residential units proposed of which 294 are one-bedroom units, 248 are two-bedroom units and 16 are three-bedroom units.  Total gross floor area is 47,872 square metres of which 2,203 square metres may be used for commercial/retail purposes.  Parking is proposed to be accessed from Southport Street with a total of 680 vehicular parking spaces.

34 Southport is located just north of The Queensway and close to many parks such as the South Humber Park, Rennie Park, and the High Park which is "Toronto's largest public park featuring many hiking trails, sports facilities, diverse vegetation, a beautiful lakefront, convenient parking, easy public transit access, a dog park, a zoo, playgrounds for children, a couple of eateries, greenhouses, picnic areas, a bunch of squirrels and various events throughout the year".