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These two sites are the most useful thing on this street for a buyer to understand, because they show what an approval is actually worth. The answer is: not a building, and not a date.
1750 The Queensway
| Field | What the record says |
|---|---|
| Developer | FIMA Developments |
| Architect | BDP Quadrangle |
| Form | Eight buildings, 6 to 38 storeys, maximum height 126.55 m |
| Units | 2,135, including 200 affordable rental |
| Also included | Parkland, privately owned publicly accessible space, and a City-owned childcare facility |
| Zoning file | 16 242424 WET 05 OZ (and 13 247159 WET 05 OZ) — approved at the Ontario Municipal Board / Ontario Land Tribunal |
| Subdivision file | 21 102360 WET 03 SB — submitted 8 January 2021, still under review |
An approved 2,135-unit community with an open subdivision file that has been under review for more than five years. Nothing has gone wrong here in any dramatic sense. This is simply how long large-site delivery takes in Toronto, and it is worth internalising before you buy anything on the strength of a nearby approval.
1061 The Queensway
| Field | What the record says |
|---|---|
| Owner | Sobeys Developments LP |
| Form | Towers of 26, 34 and 43 storeys on a five-storey podium |
| Units | 1,166 |
| Zoning file | 14 241637 WET 05 OZ — at appeal since 2014 |
| Site plan, Phase 1 | 23 218161 — Towers A and B, 877 units. Refused |
| Site plan, Phase 2 | 23 218177 — Tower C, 289 units. Refused |
| What was actually built | A single-storey retail building, by Method Architects, recorded as complete |
Read that last row again. A site with a 1,166-unit tower proposal under appeal for over a decade, whose owner built a one-storey shop on it instead.
I am not going to speculate about why. The refusals and the completed retail build are both on the record; the commercial reasoning is not, and I will not invent it. But the outcome is instructive on its own.
What these two sites should teach you
An approval is a permission, not a plan. Land can sit approved for a decade. Financing has to work, construction costs have to work, the sales market has to work, and any one of those can stop a project that has every entitlement it needs.
A refusal is not the end either. 1061’s site plans were refused and the file remains live at the Tribunal.
So do not buy the pipeline. If a suite makes sense on today’s street — today’s transit, today’s shops, today’s comparable sales — buy it. If it only makes sense once the neighbouring approvals become buildings, you are underwriting a timeline nobody controls.
The flip side, honestly stated
I do not want to leave you with the impression that nothing gets built here. Plenty does. Curio went from ground to occupancy in under three years. Reina and Verge East both registered within the last nine months. BLVD Q has a crane up.
The pattern is that mid-rises on ordinary lots get built, and masterplans on employment land get litigated. That is a genuinely useful rule of thumb for reading this street, and it holds across everything in the pipeline.
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Frequently asked questions
What is approved at 1750 The Queensway?
Eight buildings of 6 to 38 storeys, up to 126.55 metres, holding 2,135 units including 200 affordable rental, plus parkland, publicly accessible private space and a City-owned childcare facility. The zoning was approved at the Ontario Municipal Board / Ontario Land Tribunal. The subdivision application, filed in January 2021, remains under review.
What happened to the towers at 1061 The Queensway?
The zoning application has been under appeal since 2014. Two site plan applications filed in 2023 for the towers – Phase 1 covering Towers A and B at 877 units, and Phase 2 covering Tower C at 289 units – were both refused. A single-storey retail building was built on the site instead.
Does an approved development always get built?
No. 1750 The Queensway has held its approval for years with an open subdivision file. 1061 The Queensway has been in appeal since 2014. Financing, construction costs and the sales market all have to work, and an entitlement does not guarantee any of them.
Which developments on The Queensway actually got built?
Predominantly the mid-rises on ordinary lots. Curio at 801 went from ground to occupancy in under three years. Reina at 689 and Verge East at 1007 both registered within the last nine months, and BLVD Q at 935 is under construction. The large masterplans on employment land are the ones that have been litigated for years.
Related reading
- The Queensway development pipeline in 2026
- 1025 The Queensway: 4,077 homes approved
- 1255 The Queensway: the Kipling-Queensway Mall site
- Every condo building on The Queensway, one list
- What Queensway condos actually sold for
Sources
Every figure on this page traces to one of these. Checked 30 August 2026.
- UrbanToronto database — 1750 The Queensway. Project record: buildings, storeys, height, unit count, affordable component and development team. Accessed 30 August 2026.
- UrbanToronto database — 1061 The Queensway. Project record, including the completed single-storey retail building on the site. Accessed 30 August 2026.
- City of Toronto Open Data — Development Applications dataset. The City’s own machine-readable register of application file numbers, descriptions and statuses. Accessed 30 August 2026.
- City of Toronto — Application Information Centre. Free public search of development and condominium applications by address. Accessed 30 August 2026.
About the author — Jatin Dua, Etobicoke real estate agent
I’m a licensed Realtor with RE/MAX Quantum Realty at 799 The Queensway in Etobicoke. My office is on this street, which is the only reason I can write pages like this one: I walk past these sites, I read the City files, and I check the numbers against the source rather than repeating what a marketing page says. I work with buyers, sellers and investors across Stonegate–Queensway, Mimico, Humber Bay Shores, New Toronto, Long Branch and Alderwood.
Questions about a specific suite or a specific site? connect@jatindua.com or 437-987-1925.