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Leslie Lookout Park – Indigenous Artwork/Construction Hoarding
CreateTO’s CEO Vic Gupta and Councillor Paula Fletcher met with Indigenous artist and architectural designer Dani Kastelein-Longlade of Brook McIlroy last month who created a mural depicting...
CreateTO’s Strategic Plan
The City of Toronto’s real estate portfolio is immensely valuable, both in terms of its financial worth and its potential to serve as a resource for the public good. In 2018, CreateTO was established...
CreateTO’s 2022 Highlights Report
Effectively using the City’s real estate assets is crucial to achieving Toronto City Council’s key public policy goals. In 2022, CreateTO prioritized advancing projects that align with a number...

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

CreateTO embarks on 10-storey mass timber pilot project

When a 10-storey residence rises near Trinity Bellwoods Park on Dundas Street West in Toronto next year, it will mark CreateTO’s first foray into the mass timber world.

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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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