The City of Toronto should approve a redesigned development proposal that would see a 60-storey tower built above a more than 130-year-old building, staff recommend.

The proposed project at the Stewart Building, located at 149 College St., would preserve the historic building’s characteristics, staff said in a report being presented to Toronto and East York Community Council this month.

Built in 1892-94 as the Toronto Athletic Club, the six-storey building near University Avenue was designated a heritage site in 1978 on “architectural and historic” grounds. “The designation identifies the building, which was designed by E. J. Lennox, as ‘a significant work in the Romanesque Revival style, by [an] important Toronto architect,’” staff said in the report.

“The designation identifies ‘larg

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