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CreateTO and TO Live announce winner of the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts Design Competition
CreateTO and TO Live have announced Hariri Pontarini Architects, LMN Architects, Tawaw Architecture Collective, Smoke Architecture, and SLA have been selected as the winning design team through the...
Shortlisted teams announced for St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts Design Competition – Stage 1
CreateTO and TO Live have announced the shortlisted teams from Stage 1 of an international design competition to re-imagine the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts (STLC). Located at 27 Front St. East...
Market offering process launched for ModernTO sites at 610 Bay St and 130 Elizabeth St
CreateTO, on behalf of the City of Toronto, has initiated a Request for Expression of Interest (REOI) as part of a two-stage market offering process for development teams to reimagine the Toronto...

Project Highlights

Housing Now

Creating Mixed-Income Communities on Public Land

Toronto City Council has approved 21 City-owned properties for inclusion in the Housing Now Initiative. These properties have the potential for mixed-use, mixed-income development. These properties will offer the opportunity to engage private, Indigenous, and non-profit housing partners to creatively deliver rental and affordable homes within transit accessible neighbourhoods throughout the City.

ModernTO

Unlocking value to invest in city building


Through ModernTO, the City plans to reduce its portfolio to 15 locations – primarily by ending leases and creating office hubs within key civic buildings including City Hall, Metro Hall and the Civic Centres in Scarborough, North York, and Etobicoke. This will also unlock eight City-owned properties for city-building purposes, including affordable housing, City services, and other City priorities.

Leslie Lookout Park

Revitalizing underutilized land to create a new destination in the Port Lands

The Leslie Lookout Park will be a new destination in Toronto’s Port Lands located on the Martin Goodman Trail at the entrance to Tommy Thompson Park. The park will include a public beach, distinguished by forested dunes that will create a new multi-use community destination in Toronto’s east end. The centrepiece of Leslie Lookout Park will be a 1.9 acre open space at 12 Leslie Street that will connect the public to the water’s edge with views of the entire length of the Ship Channel. The open space will include a viewing platform that will provide the public with dramatic views of the Toronto skyline.

CreateTO News

The bus doesn't stop here anymore

While not in the most action-packed neighbourhood, the building is located steps from University Avenue’s “hospital row” and, to the east, all of that amazing shopping on Yonge Street.

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Toronto's St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts could get a stunning new redesign

A group led by Toronto architects has won an international design competition to remake a performing arts centre downtown.

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From streetcar garage to cultural hub

Scale is a curious thing. When I lived in Scarborough’s Midland Park neighbourhood, a walk to Scarborough Town Centre – I think I did it twice in five years – felt fantastically far.

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Join us with the @cityoftoronto @ 6pm for a virtual community meeting on the #ModernTO site at 931 Yonge St. Learn more about the development proposal to redevelop the City-owned office building on site into a residential development with affordable housing.

We’re hiring an Analyst, Client and Stakeholder Relations! #CareerOpportunity #TorontoJobs #CityBuilding https://bit.ly/3TvUi9B

We’re one week away from a virtual community meeting on the #ModernTO site at 931 Yonge St. Join us w/ @cityoftoronto on March 22 to learn more about the development proposal to redevelop the City-owned office building on site into affordable housing. https://bit.ly/3mplVol

CreateTO and @TOLiveTweets are pleased to share that the jury has selected @HaririPontarini l @LMNArchitects l @TAW_Arc l Smoke Architecture l SLA as the winning design team to reimagine a new St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts. Details: https://bit.ly/3ZGpBAS

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Thank you to everyone who joined and participated in our Parkdale Hub community meeting last night. If you were unable to attend, you can view the presentation here: https://bit.ly/3JoKkST

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