taal
Senior Member
That brick is amazing!
canrocks
New Member
Hey - I took this shot from my living room today; forgive the picture; I assure you that's not a Photoshop filter, it's just a picture that is zoomed in much more than it should be.
So what's that to the right of the shorter tower? I couldn't see it in any renderings but it looks like a podium type building with slanted pieces of wood sticking out the top? Or is that some fancy construction technique? Perhaps someone can get a better picture?
So what's that to the right of the shorter tower? I couldn't see it in any renderings but it looks like a podium type building with slanted pieces of wood sticking out the top? Or is that some fancy construction technique? Perhaps someone can get a better picture?
maestro
Senior Member
^plywood hoarding on the fly forms building One Cole Street
urbandreamer
recession proof
23 November 2008 photo update
One Cole is massive, didn't realize that fact until I drove by yesterday afternoon.
The entire area (south and north) of this project needs a gigantic overhaul--does the new plan for RP include the area on the southeast as well? Looks dreary in the winter. This pair looks good though, if a tad "toronto" cold.
The view from Broadview is stupendous! I am shocked I rarely see photos from this angle on UT. Gonna try to get better shots soon...stay tuned.
One Cole is massive, didn't realize that fact until I drove by yesterday afternoon.
The entire area (south and north) of this project needs a gigantic overhaul--does the new plan for RP include the area on the southeast as well? Looks dreary in the winter. This pair looks good though, if a tad "toronto" cold.
The view from Broadview is stupendous! I am shocked I rarely see photos from this angle on UT. Gonna try to get better shots soon...stay tuned.
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Cleweswatchers have a fine vantage point from across the Valley - Regent Park, Pure Spirit and Spire - all at a glance.
catcher_of_cats
Active Member
The new Regent Park: wide hallways, hardwood floors
Posted: December 18, 2008, 6:53 PM by Rob Roberts
Photos: Regent Park today, and as it will be
By Natalie Alcoba, National Post
The first buildings in the redeveloped Regent Park will be ready in the spring, Toronto Community Housing announced today as they offered a media tour of two apartments.
The units are not yet finished, but wide hallways, big windows, the promise of hardwood floor and, in the case of a five bedroom, a study area, make the residences impressive.
“The rooms are quite modest but this way the design creates open spaces so you don’t feel like you’re sitting on top of each other,” Toronto Community Housing CEO Derek Ballantyne said as he toured the five bedroom, 1,200 square feet spread over two floors.
He added: “There is no distinction with your income and the kind of unit you get. All the units are built the same.”
Two buildings on Sackville Street — a 22-storey high rise that will house seniors and a mid rise building for families — will receive their first tenants in the spring.
The collection of inner city housing projects for years represented urban decay, but now stands for change. For starters, Sackville has not extended this far south for 50 years.
Regent Park’s original design cut it off from the city around it, and isolated the people who lived inside. Regent Park 2.0 will break that pattern, and create an interconnected fabric of mixed use buildings, with mixed income people.
“It’s the return of Sackville,” Mr. Ballantyne said proudly as he led a press pack through the construction site of the new development. “The beginning of the return of neighbourhood streets.”
A community energy system located under the seniors’ building on Sackville Street will heat, cool and provide hot water to all the Regent Park buildings, part of the development’s commitment to go green. There will also be low flow shower heads, faucets and toilets, appliances that save energy and roofs that are covered with plants to reduce energy costs, absorb rain, and keep buildings cool.
The low rise will house 65 rental units, some with rent geared to income and others considered “affordable” housing.
Tenants who moved out to make room for the first phase of reconstruction will be able to pick out their units in January, if they want to move back in.
Toronto Community Housing promises to replace all 2,083 social housing units, plus add another 700 affordable housing units both in and adjacent to the neighbourhood. The $1-billion Regent Park revitalization will be rolled out in six phases over 15 years.
The Daniels Corporation, which is building all the buildings in the first phase of redevelopment, is also erecting a 19-storey condominium on the new Cole Street, with 500 square feet starting at about $180,000. The sales centre will open in the summer, but Daniels vice president Martin Blake said 1,600 people have already expressed interest in the development.
Mr. Ballantyne envisioned transforming Regent Park into a neighbourhood akin to the St. Lawrence Market, where social housing, cooperatives, market value condos and commercial space happily coexist.
In the Regent Park that remains, residents are waiting. “People are excited. Everyone wants to live in a good building,” said Betty Ndaya, a Congolese mother of three who has been living in a coakroach infested building for six years.
Katie McKay does not expect much to change. “The big problem is safety, and tearing down the buildings and switching everything around is not going to change that,” said the mother of four.
Posted: December 18, 2008, 6:53 PM by Rob Roberts
Photos: Regent Park today, and as it will be
By Natalie Alcoba, National Post
The first buildings in the redeveloped Regent Park will be ready in the spring, Toronto Community Housing announced today as they offered a media tour of two apartments.
The units are not yet finished, but wide hallways, big windows, the promise of hardwood floor and, in the case of a five bedroom, a study area, make the residences impressive.
“The rooms are quite modest but this way the design creates open spaces so you don’t feel like you’re sitting on top of each other,” Toronto Community Housing CEO Derek Ballantyne said as he toured the five bedroom, 1,200 square feet spread over two floors.
He added: “There is no distinction with your income and the kind of unit you get. All the units are built the same.”
Two buildings on Sackville Street — a 22-storey high rise that will house seniors and a mid rise building for families — will receive their first tenants in the spring.
The collection of inner city housing projects for years represented urban decay, but now stands for change. For starters, Sackville has not extended this far south for 50 years.
Regent Park’s original design cut it off from the city around it, and isolated the people who lived inside. Regent Park 2.0 will break that pattern, and create an interconnected fabric of mixed use buildings, with mixed income people.
“It’s the return of Sackville,” Mr. Ballantyne said proudly as he led a press pack through the construction site of the new development. “The beginning of the return of neighbourhood streets.”
A community energy system located under the seniors’ building on Sackville Street will heat, cool and provide hot water to all the Regent Park buildings, part of the development’s commitment to go green. There will also be low flow shower heads, faucets and toilets, appliances that save energy and roofs that are covered with plants to reduce energy costs, absorb rain, and keep buildings cool.
The low rise will house 65 rental units, some with rent geared to income and others considered “affordable” housing.
Tenants who moved out to make room for the first phase of reconstruction will be able to pick out their units in January, if they want to move back in.
Toronto Community Housing promises to replace all 2,083 social housing units, plus add another 700 affordable housing units both in and adjacent to the neighbourhood. The $1-billion Regent Park revitalization will be rolled out in six phases over 15 years.
The Daniels Corporation, which is building all the buildings in the first phase of redevelopment, is also erecting a 19-storey condominium on the new Cole Street, with 500 square feet starting at about $180,000. The sales centre will open in the summer, but Daniels vice president Martin Blake said 1,600 people have already expressed interest in the development.
Mr. Ballantyne envisioned transforming Regent Park into a neighbourhood akin to the St. Lawrence Market, where social housing, cooperatives, market value condos and commercial space happily coexist.
In the Regent Park that remains, residents are waiting. “People are excited. Everyone wants to live in a good building,” said Betty Ndaya, a Congolese mother of three who has been living in a coakroach infested building for six years.
Katie McKay does not expect much to change. “The big problem is safety, and tearing down the buildings and switching everything around is not going to change that,” said the mother of four.
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taal
Senior Member
I took a walk by the entire site today ... including the older parts of Regent park. Wow ...
It's massive (Regent park that is). I can't see how it was ever permitted to be built in the first place - it's a sprawling expanse of 3-5 story buildings. Some of them are in such terrible shape as well.
I'm slightly concerned where the current populous will be located after the redevelopment. Is there space in all the new condos for them all?
Funny enough, while I was there I saw a few clearly out of place people walking around - it turned out to be a rel estate agent and 2 clients trying to make a sale in 1 Cole.
The new buildings are quite beautiful to say the least, you wonder why more condos couldn't be built like this. This stretch of Dundas is pretty derelict and these should help out quite a bit. It's an interesting transition walking south on Parliament through Cabagetown down to regent park. Speaking of which you can tell Cabagetown has really manged to retain it's un gentrified image on the main streets - which is nice.
It's massive (Regent park that is). I can't see how it was ever permitted to be built in the first place - it's a sprawling expanse of 3-5 story buildings. Some of them are in such terrible shape as well.
I'm slightly concerned where the current populous will be located after the redevelopment. Is there space in all the new condos for them all?
Funny enough, while I was there I saw a few clearly out of place people walking around - it turned out to be a rel estate agent and 2 clients trying to make a sale in 1 Cole.
The new buildings are quite beautiful to say the least, you wonder why more condos couldn't be built like this. This stretch of Dundas is pretty derelict and these should help out quite a bit. It's an interesting transition walking south on Parliament through Cabagetown down to regent park. Speaking of which you can tell Cabagetown has really manged to retain it's un gentrified image on the main streets - which is nice.
Solaris
Senior Member
the 'new' Regent Park buildings are good looking .... although a little insititutional like
I'm thinking though ... given current market conditions, will Regent Park become a big loss to Daniels? (as they first built the rental replacement buildings in exchange for rights to build condos) ... Is it possible for One Cole to never get off the ground from poor sales considering its in a 'perceived' less desirable location
I'm thinking though ... given current market conditions, will Regent Park become a big loss to Daniels? (as they first built the rental replacement buildings in exchange for rights to build condos) ... Is it possible for One Cole to never get off the ground from poor sales considering its in a 'perceived' less desirable location
digitalcabana
Active Member
Regent Park Phase 1
Regent Park begins to stand tall
$1 billion revitalization on track – even though key to success is selling condos in shaky market
Dec 19, 2008
Donovan Vincent
Toronto Star
Although condominium sales will play a key role in financing the redevelopment of Regent Park, the CEO of Toronto Community Housing says he doesn't believe a drop in the market will jeopardize the billion-dollar project.
The city's public housing agency is using proceeds from selling land and new market-priced condo units being built in Regent Park to pay for new subsidized and affordable rental units in the area.
During a presentation and tour of the project held yesterday to update the media on how the 12-year redevelopment is progressing, Derek Ballantyne said he's not worried predictions of a coming bust in the booming condo market will hurt sales at Regent Park.
A 293-unit condominium project called "One Cole," estimated last year at about $70 million, is currently under construction in Phase 1 of Regent Park's revitalization. Sales offices are to open in the spring, with occupancy set for late next year.
Ballantyne said the condos are designed to attract first-time buyers, and clients will be able to purchase only four or five months from their move-in dates.
"They don't have to face very long waits and delays and the uncertainty of the marketplace, which is one of the things preying on people,'' he said.
"The product is well-priced and well-placed in the market," he said, adding that borrowing costs and mortgage rates have dropped favourably for first-time buyers.
Another 147-unit condo building is slated to begin construction next year at Oak and Sackville Sts.
The plan is to use funds from the condo sales toward financing two new buildings near completion at Dundas St. E. and Parliament St. – a 22-storey seniors' building and an eight-storey family building – both with mostly subsidized units.
The financing plan also includes 375 new social housing units on Carlton St., Adelaide St. E., and Richmond St. E., also set for 2009 occupancy.
Buildings at those locations will house some of the original rent-geared-to-income units from Regent Park. It's all part of a plan to break up the concentration of social housing that originally existed at Regent Park, replacing that with mixed-income housing and some commercial activity in a new street plan that reconnects the neighbourhood with the surrounding city.
All of Regent Park's 2,083 social housing units are being replaced, with 700 extra affordable housing units added in and around the neighbourhood in the six-phase, 12-year plan.
This week, Will Dunning, a Toronto housing economist, warned of an impending chill in the city's condo market. Noting that the number of condos listed for sale in central Toronto in November increased 75 per cent from the year prior, he spoke of an "excess supply."
Martin Blake, a vice-president with the Daniels Corporation, the builder in Regent Park, was on hand for yesterday's event and said that, though sales offices for One Cole have yet to open, 1,600 people have signed up on a mailing list to get regular updates.
A Toronto Community Housing spokesperson pointed out that if condos remained unsold, the housing corporation would consider retaining ownership and renting them. Meanwhile, many of the 1,160 residents uprooted and relocated when Phase 1 demolition began are to move into the new homes, if they're still eligible, in the spring.
Some of those who were moved out of Regent Park have, however, chosen not to return.
With Phase 1 well underway, Phase 2 begins in 2010.
Regent Park begins to stand tall
$1 billion revitalization on track – even though key to success is selling condos in shaky market
Dec 19, 2008
Donovan Vincent
Toronto Star
Although condominium sales will play a key role in financing the redevelopment of Regent Park, the CEO of Toronto Community Housing says he doesn't believe a drop in the market will jeopardize the billion-dollar project.
The city's public housing agency is using proceeds from selling land and new market-priced condo units being built in Regent Park to pay for new subsidized and affordable rental units in the area.
During a presentation and tour of the project held yesterday to update the media on how the 12-year redevelopment is progressing, Derek Ballantyne said he's not worried predictions of a coming bust in the booming condo market will hurt sales at Regent Park.
A 293-unit condominium project called "One Cole," estimated last year at about $70 million, is currently under construction in Phase 1 of Regent Park's revitalization. Sales offices are to open in the spring, with occupancy set for late next year.
Ballantyne said the condos are designed to attract first-time buyers, and clients will be able to purchase only four or five months from their move-in dates.
"They don't have to face very long waits and delays and the uncertainty of the marketplace, which is one of the things preying on people,'' he said.
"The product is well-priced and well-placed in the market," he said, adding that borrowing costs and mortgage rates have dropped favourably for first-time buyers.
Another 147-unit condo building is slated to begin construction next year at Oak and Sackville Sts.
The plan is to use funds from the condo sales toward financing two new buildings near completion at Dundas St. E. and Parliament St. – a 22-storey seniors' building and an eight-storey family building – both with mostly subsidized units.
The financing plan also includes 375 new social housing units on Carlton St., Adelaide St. E., and Richmond St. E., also set for 2009 occupancy.
Buildings at those locations will house some of the original rent-geared-to-income units from Regent Park. It's all part of a plan to break up the concentration of social housing that originally existed at Regent Park, replacing that with mixed-income housing and some commercial activity in a new street plan that reconnects the neighbourhood with the surrounding city.
All of Regent Park's 2,083 social housing units are being replaced, with 700 extra affordable housing units added in and around the neighbourhood in the six-phase, 12-year plan.
This week, Will Dunning, a Toronto housing economist, warned of an impending chill in the city's condo market. Noting that the number of condos listed for sale in central Toronto in November increased 75 per cent from the year prior, he spoke of an "excess supply."
Martin Blake, a vice-president with the Daniels Corporation, the builder in Regent Park, was on hand for yesterday's event and said that, though sales offices for One Cole have yet to open, 1,600 people have signed up on a mailing list to get regular updates.
A Toronto Community Housing spokesperson pointed out that if condos remained unsold, the housing corporation would consider retaining ownership and renting them. Meanwhile, many of the 1,160 residents uprooted and relocated when Phase 1 demolition began are to move into the new homes, if they're still eligible, in the spring.
Some of those who were moved out of Regent Park have, however, chosen not to return.
With Phase 1 well underway, Phase 2 begins in 2010.
Mike in TO
Senior Member
Some items in 2009 and 2010 not covered in the articles above:
The 1 Oak Street condo project will be a 149-unit building with construction starting next summer and occupancy set for 2010. There will also be 51condominium townhouses will set to open as well. The planning of Phase 2 of the revitalization will get going next year, including the construction of 400 rental units, a city aquatic centre and a park.
The 1 Oak Street condo project will be a 149-unit building with construction starting next summer and occupancy set for 2010. There will also be 51condominium townhouses will set to open as well. The planning of Phase 2 of the revitalization will get going next year, including the construction of 400 rental units, a city aquatic centre and a park.
BMyers
Active Member
jks
Continuous Lurker
From the TCHC website
jks
Continuous Lurker
Continued
Hypnotoad
Senior Member
The photo-tour continues:
urbandreamer
recession proof
9 January 2009 photo update
Tower in a not-so-Regent Park? Looks rather like it here, eh? (Sackville, approaching Dundas St East from Cabbagetown.)
Tower in a not-so-Regent Park? Looks rather like it here, eh? (Sackville, approaching Dundas St East from Cabbagetown.)