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Thorncliffe Park History

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Overlea Boulevard, in the Thorncliffe Park community, has been identified by the City of Toronto as a main street corridor that requires a new plan to address the transition of land uses in the area and to more readily address the needs of the residents within the community. The community has a significant south Asian immigrant population in addition to various other ethnicities that live within the immediate area. It is estimated that the area immediately south of Overlea Blvd. and along Thorncliffe Park Dr. has a population of over 30,000 people. Besides the pressures of housing and providing services to such a populous and diverse community there is the need to provide community-gathering spaces and to improve Overlea Blvd. to function as …show more content…

Davies, the wealthy founder of the Dominion Brewing Co. An avid participant in horse racing, under the banner of Thorncliffe Stable, he raced both Thoroughbred and Standard-bred horses. After Davies’ death in 1916 his estate sold the property to a group of investors from Baltimore, Maryland who built the Thorncliffe Park Raceway racetrack. The track was home to thoroughbred horse racing and harness racing from 1917 until 1952 when Thorncliffe was purchased by the Ontario Jockey Club. Thorncliffe was then resold to Thorncliffe Park Ltd., which developed the present day neighbourhood in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. The old racetrack site is commemorated by two streets named Grandstand Place and Milepost Place and the number of buildings that took on racetrack stable names like Churchill, Maple Glen and Wellow …show more content…

and preventing growth of the community. The Mall is itself an Island, isolated by the surrounding surface parking.
CONCEPTUAL VISION
The concept plan for the site can be best described as a transition from an inward focused suburban mall community to an Urban centered Main Street neighbourhood through the introduction on a street focused retail with increase of a variety of housing types and a centrally located community hub while connecting the revitalized community with the already existing surrounding Don Valley Park
The Redevelopment Plan for Overlea Boulevard is intended to provide a broad frame¬work for reshaping the intended role, function and character of the current main thoroughfare into a Street with the same character of Toronto’s other popular Main Streets with the involvement of the vibrant, growing, strong community in east central Toronto.

The Plan would connect the Community with the surrounding Don Valley Park by following the City of Toronto 's Urban Design Streetscape Manual “Toronto Street Trees” and connect the unique Community Assets with an increase of varied

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