CreateTO News

Press Releases

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

TRCA Partners with CreateTO to Explore Community-Building Potential of Black Creek Pioneer Village Parking Facility

City of Toronto celebrates ground-breaking for 57 affordable rental homes and 256 long-term care beds at 640 Lansdowne Ave.

City of Toronto celebrates the ground-breaking of 725 new rental homes on City land at 5207 Dundas Street West

CreateTO announces shortlist to reimagine the former Toronto Coach Terminal site at 610 Bay Street

City of Toronto ModernTO program advances through Toronto Metropolitan University purchase of two CreateTO sites

CreateTO and TO Live announce winner of the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts Design Competition

November 29, 2022
CreateTO and TO Live announce shortlist for St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts design competition

November 24, 2022
CreateTO initiates market offering for the ModernTO site at 610 Bay Street & 130 Elizabeth Street

July 26, 2022
City of Toronto and CreateTO announce development partners for first Housing Now Indigenous-led site for Indigenous seniors

June 14, 2022
City of Toronto building new long-term care home in Scarborough

April 25, 2022
Mayor John Tory announces new mass timber pilot program for affordable rental housing

April 27, 2022
City of Toronto and George Brown College to work together on a plan for a new campus opportunity in the Mount Dennis community

April 6, 2022
Toronto City Council adopts ModernTO plan to repurpose eight City-owned sites for affordable housing and city-building benefits

November 22, 2021
City of Toronto and CreateTO announce development partners for a third Housing Now site

November 18, 2021
Wellington Destructor site on way to becoming a community hub

November 16, 2021
City of Toronto and CreateTO announce development partner for the $250 million Basin Media Hub

November 10, 2021
City Council appoints new Chief Executive Officer of CreateTO 

October 19, 2021
City of Toronto and CreateTO announce development partners for two Phase One Housing Now sites to build much needed affordable and market rental housing

October 13, 2021
City of Toronto report recommends TAS as long-term lessee to revitalize Wellington Destructor site and create a community hub 

May 14, 2021
Proposed redevelopment of two City-owned sites to create multiple city-building opportunities in the downtown core

January 27, 2021
CreateTO and the City of Toronto announce Claude Cormier + Associés to design and construct Leslie Slip Lookout Park

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

For Media & PR:

Susan O’Neill | Marketing & Communications
Telephone: 1-416-981-3759
soneill@createto.ca

CreateTO In the News

Five years after plan approved, construction begins on Toronto’s first ‘Housing Now’ site in Etobicoke

CP24 – August 9, 2023
Ground has broken on Toronto’s first Housing Now project, a City Council approved plan to use surplus City of Toronto-owned lands to build affordable housing and mixed-income communities near transit.

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Shortlist Announced for Transformation of Historic Toronto Coach Terminal

Urban Toronto – June 16, 2023
The City of Toronto is aiming to revitalize a series of its historic properties through the ModernTO program.

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CreateTO embarks on 10-storey mass timber pilot project

Daily Commercial News – May 15, 2023
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

Globe and Mail – March 14, 2023
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

CBC – March 10, 2023
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

Globe and Mail – November 29, 2022
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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Indigenous community takes the lead on affordable housing for Indigenous elders and seniors

Toronto Star – August 5, 2022
Toronto Mayor John Tory and Chief Jason Gauthier from the Missanabie Cree First Nation have announced the Missanabie Cree First Nation as the development partner for new housing at 140 Merton Street, by the Davisville subway station.

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Toronto to build new long-term care home in Scarborough for 2026

Global News – June 14, 2022
City of Toronto officials say they have plans to build a new long-term care home in Scarborough with an expected completion timeline of 2026. Mayor John Tory made the announcement on Tuesday and said the home will be located at 4610 Finch Ave. E.

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City plans to turn parking lot into affordable housing made of mass timber

Toronto Star – April 26, 2022
A proposed new mass timber housing development, slated for what is now a surface-level Green P parking lot in Toronto’s downtown west area, will address affordability issues and climate concerns.    

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George Brown College exploring possibility of new campus in Mount Dennis

CityNews – April 27, 2022
A new campus could be in the works for students at George Brown College. The post-secondary institute is working together with the City of Toronto to explore the possibility of building a new facility in the Mount Dennis area.

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