, a small-scale developer with a focus on Toronto’s missing middle who brought the project to Craig Race Architecture in 2021.
“What really made the project unique was that it was a severance opportunity, as well as a multiplex opportunity,” says Race. “The home was on a lot that was twice as wide as every other house on the street, so we had to get approval to sever it into two properties first. So we went from one house on one property to 10 houses on two properties.”It’s a bit of real estate alchemy if you think about it; a single dwelling unit turned into ten.
“Multiplexes are now the fastest approvals timeline that exists, and that’s a huge time savings,” he says. “Saving six months from the design approvals process — that's easily a quarter of your entire project timeline to get to stabilization. And that has a huge effect on delivering housing to Torontonians who need it, as well as just making it easier for people to start getting into the development game at this scale.