Although the Granite Club’s Shiftingravity expansion project is not expected to wrap up until mid-2014, the club owners already have their eyes on more development in the future.

The club’s $40 million project will house a new fitness centre, a new children’s facility, a pro shop and five additional levels of underground parking. But officials at the Granite Club have already started eyeing land for their next expansion project. On Feb. 25, the Granite Club submitted a rezoning application to the City of Toronto, City Planning to demolish the detached homes at 2374 and 2378 Bayview Ave.

Those homes, as well as the one at 2382 Bayview Ave., lie adjacent to the current construction and are owned by the Granite Club, though they are currently occupied by renters. The application on the City of Toronto website states that the proposed development is 19 storeys, which James DiRenzo, Granite Club’s chief operating officer and general manager, stated is an error. According to DiRenzo, the club has not decided on any specific details of this new project. “We have no plans for the rezoning application,” he said. “Although we’re applying to have them demolished, that doesn’t mean we will demolish them immediately. We’re just securing the land for future recreational use.”

Mike Varey, executive assistant to Coun. Jaye Robinson, said that the city will examine the rezoning application soon. “It should be on the May [North York Community Council] agenda,” said Varey. “Then we’ll move forward with a community consultation.”

Neighbours have remarked that the club has been very forthcoming about current and upcoming construction plans and that the Shiftingravity project has not been disruptive or distracting to them.

“We try very hard to be a good neighbour,” said Mary Elizabeth Sullivan, assistant general manager of the Granite Club. “We had several meetings years ago when this project first started.”