Toronto Seaton House Redevelopment | 36.88m | 9s | City of Toronto | Montgomery Sisam

I thought this is a replacement with the current building being sold to developers.
 
Oh God - I live near Allan Gardens, and this is about the worst possible news for the area.

Seaton House needs to be broken up and turned into small, manageable unobtrusive shelter homes across the city. As ist stands now, having five hundred homeless men next to the park has been a depressant on the area for some time.
It depresses the area with mental illness, with drug dealing, with gross poverty and with loiterers. I might sound arch-conservative here, but believe me I'm not. I do see, however, an area overburdened beyond any fair capacity to properly assimilate, treat or deal with the poverty it has come to be a default location for.

The city needs desperately needs more housing and shelters, but it does not need more bulky out-sized depots like Seaton House. I for one will be protesting this expansion - in the hopes the city will begin to deal with models for homelessness that are less heavy handed, better for those involved, and for the neighbourhoods surrounding them.

The plan seems to make it smaller. although not sure by how much. I don't think any shelter with more than 50 beds is "manageable" for the neighbourhood. This place alone has 550, not including other shelters not too far way.

While Seaton House will be redeveloped into a smaller and more effective emergency shelter for homeless men, the site will also host some form of "assisted living," as well as a long-term care home, to be operated by the City's Long-term Care Homes & Services (LTCHS).

I don't hold my breath for a "revitalized George Street", since hundreds of homeless men (aka "clients") will continue living there, enjoying their drugs. Chances are that the area will remain an undesirable place most people will try to avoid passing by. Let's see how the Dundas Square Garden sells.

DT east has

Men's
Robertson House 291 Sherbourne Street
Sojourn House 101 Ontario Street
Dixon Hall Schoolhouse 349 George Street
Good Shepherd Centre 412 Queen Street East
Salvation Army – Gateway 107 Jarvis Street
Seaton House 339 George Street
Salvation Army – Maxwell Meighen Centre 135 Sherbourne Street

Women's
Fred Victor Centre Women’s Hostel 86 Lombard Street,
Street Haven at the Crossroads 87 Pembroke Street
St. Vincent De Paul – Mary’s Home 70 Gerrard Street East


All within 15 minutes walking distance.
 
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The City have just posted this tender call:


Architectural Consultant Team Services for Stage One of the
George Street Revitalization Project (Two-Envelope System).

Issue date: November 14, 2014 Closing date: December 15, 2014
at 12:00 Noon
Posted on 11/14/2014 03:35:50 PM
 
I read through as much of the PDF as possible (kept crashing), but didn't see any mention of where the 400 displaced shelter beds will be relocated. If anyone attended the meeting, was that discussed at all?

Glad to see the city is taking a decentralized and de-institutionalized approach to these services.
 
Staff Report from the October Exec Committee:

http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2015/ex/bgrd/backgroundfile-84497.pdf

October 2015 Project Overview:

http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2015/ex/bgrd/backgroundfile-84498.pdf

Site plan:

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Ground Floor Plan:

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Renders:

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Section:

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AoD
 

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Looks nicer than some of the stuff middle to upper class people drop stacks on. Are they doing something to the street itself? The renders seem to have paving stones and planters, maybe just artistic license?
 

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