The owners of LuCliff Place at 700 Bay Street have filed a rezoning application with Toronto's Planning Department, seeking a 45-storey addition at the west end of the property. LuCliff Place combines into one tower a 21-storey office block fronting on Bay Street with a 25-storey residential rental block fronting on Gerrard Street between Bay and Elizabeth. A single-storey podium on the west end of the block at Elizabeth and Gerrard is where the 45-storey residential tower would be added.

LuCliff Place with the addition site identified, image from Apple Maps, doctored by UT contributor Big Daddy

The west facade of LuCliff Place has only one vertical row of windows bisecting an otherwise windowless concrete wall, apparently allowing with some ease a new tower with a 490 square metre (5,285 square foot) floor plate to be built flush with the existing tower.

LuCliff Place viewed from the west on Gerrard Street, image from of Google Street View

If the rezoning application is approved as is, the new residential gross floor area of LuCliff Place would increase by 20,856 square metres, or 224,494 square feet to a total of 55,940 square metres or 602,138 square feet.

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