CreateTO News

Press Releases

Read about the latest announcements on our real estate development projects, leasing and community engagement initiatives.

October 9, 2020
CreateTO Board of Directors appoints Steven Trumper as interim CEO

September 24, 2020
CreateTO, in partnership with the City of Toronto, launches market offering for the Basin Media Hub

September 16, 2020
CreateTO CEO Brian Johnston to step down in October

October 15, 2019

CreateTO, in partnership with the City of Toronto, launches market offering for Housing Now sites

September 25, 2019

September 18, 2019

ModernTO plan optimizes the City’s real estate assets to unlock cost savings and city-building opportunities

January 30, 2019

CreateTO Announces Appointment of New Chief Executive Officer  

December 7, 2018

Statement from CreateTO Board Chair Dino Chiesa on the Housing Now Initiative

October 15, 2018

The second of Garrison Crossing’s two bridge spans installed

August 13, 2018

CreateTO announces Studio City Rentals as the new operator of the former Showline Studios complex

July 28, 2018

The first of Garrison Crossing’s two bridge spans installed overnight

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Telephone: 1-416-981-3759
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CreateTO In the News

Toronto’s first modular supportive housing project opens its doors

Toronto Star – December 20, 2020
Toronto’s first modular supportive housing project opened its doors on the weekend, with 56 studio apartment spaces meant to move people out of the city’s homeless shelter system.

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Toronto’s Hollywood North expanding in all directions

Globe and Mail – December 15, 2020
It’s lights, cameras and action – everywhere. While just a few months ago, it appeared COVID-19 was forcing a wrap for the film industry, there’s now so much demand for production space that studios are expanding, and new ones are being built in all corners of the Greater Toronto Area.

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Mega film and television studio in Toronto’s port lands expands again

Toronto.com – November 13, 2020
Today, Pinewood Toronto Studios (PTS) announced it has started a multi-stage expansion that will add more than 200,000 square feet of new sound stage and support space to its Commissioners Street campus.

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Here comes the bridge: A sneak peek at Toronto’s new Cherry St. bridge – set to make the trip from Nova Scotia

Toronto Star – October 24, 2020
Right now, it’s sitting, sleek and streamlined, brilliant white and red against a clear blue sky in the backyard of the manufacturing facility of Cherubini Bridges and Structures in Dartmouth, across the harbour from Halifax.

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Toronto identifies initial site locations for modular housing projects

Toronto Storeys – June 2, 2020
Within a month of receiving approval from council, the City’s plan to expedite Phase 1 of Toronto’s Modular Housing Initiative is well underway and the first two site locations have been identified.

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Toronto moves to a more holistic approach to land and housing development

Globe and Mail – March 20, 2020
When Toronto city council last month approved the final plan for a locally contentious mixed-income apartment development near Wilson subway station, the number of affordable rental units was actually 25 per cent higher than the initial proposal, which was made public only a year ago.

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Toronto’s ferry terminal to the islands could soon look completely different

BlogTO – March 14, 2020
A plan to revitalize the ferry terminal that serves as the gateway to the Toronto islands is one step closer to coming to fruition. The project proposes a beautiful redesign of the portion of the Toronto waterfront that more than a million tourists and locals travel through each year to get to one of the city’s biggest attractions.

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Condos and Affordable Housing Proposed at Victoria Park and Gerrard

Urban Toronto – January 27, 2020
An Official Plan amendment, rezoning, and subdivision approval is being sought from the City of Toronto for the redevelopment of a vacant brownfield site at 411 Victoria Park Avenue in Scarborough.

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How do you build an island in Toronto?

Toronto Star – January 4, 2020
David Kusturin stands at the top of a scaffold five metres above the ground just south of Commissioners Street in Toronto’s Port Lands and surveys the busy construction scene before him.

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Revised Richview Square Development Appears at Design Review Panel

Urban Toronto – December 9, 2019
The development is located at the northwest corner of Eglinton West and Wincott Drive in Etobicoke on the site of an existing suburban plaza, and proposes to add three new towers while retaining the existing retail structure on site.

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Archive

Build Toronto Press Releases

November 23, 2017

Build Toronto Opens Pedestrian-Friendly Retail Shopping Centre at Wilson Subway Station 

September 14, 2017

An Innovative Collaboration in Affordable Ownership Housing in Toronto

May 4, 2017

Build Toronto Announces Winning Team Selected to Design New Etobicoke Civic Centre

February 9, 2017

Build Toronto Appoints Jaspreet Hansra-Kulasingam as Chief Financial Officer

February 2, 2017

Build Toronto Kicks Off Design Competition for the New Etobicoke Civic Centre

October 13, 2016

Build Toronto Provides a 2016 City-Building Update

September 26, 2016

Build Toronto Announces an Additional 100 Affordable Housing Units at Wilson Subway Station

September 8, 2016

Build Toronto Closes on Sale to Revitalize City Waterworks Property

August 9, 2016

Build Toronto Restores Site and Announces 32 New Affordable Home Ownership Units

July 14, 2016

Build Toronto announces Total Contributions of $123.4 Million to the City of Toronto 

May 13, 2016

Build Toronto announces a $25 Million Dividend to City of Toronto

April 25, 2016

Build Toronto announces 100 New Affordable Housing Units on the Subway Line

November 24, 2015

Build Toronto announces Dufferin Construction as Successful Company to Design and Build the Fort York Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge

November 10, 2015

Council appoints eight public members to the Build Toronto Board and Councillor David Shiner as Interim Chair 

December 22, 2014

Build Toronto completes the sale of 4050 Yonge Street Projects at York Mills Station

October 11, 2013

Build Toronto announces William Bryck as it’s new President & CEO

September 13, 2013

Build Toronto supports the contributions of fellow  City Builders at the Toronto Urban Design Awards

July 26, 2013

Build Toronto confirms eight new Board Directors and is poised to build on successful real estate business model for the City

June 26, 2013

Build Toronto announces outstanding 2012 results

November 18, 2011

Build Toronto and Tridel announce $295 million “City-Building” partnership in downtown Toronto

November 18, 2011

Build Toronto appoints new Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

July 14, 2011

City Council approves OPA and Rezoning for Build Toronto development at 4050 Yonge Street

April 8, 2011

Steven J. Trumper joins Build Toronto as General Counsel

September 28, 2010

Build Toronto officially launches Corus Quay development

June 3, 2010

Build Toronto lists first property

May 12, 2010

Build Toronto opens for business

Toronto Port Lands Company Press Releases

February 27, 2017

Film, television and digital production in Toronto hits record-breaking $2 billion in 2016

March 1, 2016

TPLC Pinewood Expansion

February 26, 2016

Pinewood Toronto expansion announcement release today

June 26, 2015

TPLC a Proud Supporter of the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games