Don Summerville officially opened in the Queen Street East and the Eastern Avenue in Leslieville and marks the completion of a five -year revitalization effort that has transformed the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) location. At a ceremony for cutting on Wednesday, October 1st, Mayor Olivia Chow was accompanied by City Councilor Paula Fletcher, Member of the Dab Dabrusin and representatives of TCHC, Context Development and Riocan Living.
The 3.3 hectare area, which once home, which once located 120 apartments with Rent Gear-Gear in income, now has three new buildings designed by Teple architects: the 10-story Don Summerville replacement lessons at the East End, the 16-story bridge market building and the 17-story queen & Ashbridge building, that of Context and Riocan was divided at the west end of the West. Together they bring a mixture of RGI, affordable, market rental and owner units, which have been integrated in retail space, an open open spaces and integrated courtyards integrated in the landscapes and which are delivered to the city free of charge by private sector investments.
Participants of the ceremony for cutting ribbons, including Mayor Olivia Chow, picture with the kind permission of KG & A
“Soon the residents will start the newly revitalized Don Summerville community,” said Mayor Olivia Chow. “Every goal -tonian deserves to live in a house that he is proud of, and in a quarter in which you can thrive how the future residents of Don Summerville wants. This community is a model for what we can achieve in the whole city, and we will continue to identify communities and possibilities where we can do it.”
“I was very lucky that the local council was part of this groundbreaking project from the start and to the official opening of this beautiful, new, completely mixed community,” added Paula Fletcher, City Councilor of Toronto-Danforth.
View northwest to Don Summerville at the eastern end of the location, picture of Urbantoronto Forum participating Housingnowto
The new buildings jointly introduce a mixture of 138 replacement and affordable rental houses in Don Summerville, 183 market rental suites in the bridge and 367 condominiums in Queen & Ashbridge. This significant increase in the range of housing corresponds to the city's apartment destinations and offers a spectrum of apartments that aim to support the residents of different income levels.
Don Summerville delivers 103 apartments with rent-gear income together with 35 additional affordable units, while the bridge adds 183 market rental suites. Queen & Ashbridge contributes 367 condominiums, and within the rental and owner buildings, another 82 houses are secured below the market.
Several initiatives strengthen the affordability component beyond the replacement units. Fifty apartments are reserved for women and their families through partnerships with parishes, while 32 cooperative units (divided between houses with rental and income) are partially assigned to artists.
“I am pleased to welcome the tenants of Toronto Community tenants in Don Summerville as well as the new tenants and owners of condominiums with whom they live. As a result of this revival, TCHC and the city were able to create more than six more houses at this location than originally existed,” Shared Sean Baird, Tchc President and CEO.
View north into the skyscrapers of Queen & Ashbridge + Bridge, Image of Urbantoronto Forum participating KAI
In the class, 16,000 foot retail space along the Queen Street East and Eastern Avenue are distributed to create opportunities for shops, services and local employment. A pops (privately owned in the possession of publicly accessible space) anchor the site and offers landscape assembly areas that are combined with pedestrian corridors.
The municipality is located next to the 501 Queen Streetcar, the Coxwell Avenue Bus Routes and the Martin Goodman Trail along the waterfront. Landscape -oriented courtyards, tree -related sidewalks and plazas weave the development through development, whereby the public space extends into the site and at the same time connected to established street landscapes in Leslieville.
The development combines white composite paneling panels with accents made of red brick and black glazing. The glazing of Curtainwall defines retail and at the same time projects balconies with glass or solid guards that articulate the above -mentioned residential floors. The upper levels with level back theory create terraces and gardens on the roof on the market rental and in condominium buildings.
Construction began in 2020, whereby the buildings were lit until mid-2024, followed by extensive work on disguises, glazing and landscape features in spring 2025. In the summer, the residents moved to the condominium and the rental towers for the awarding of the cash and market increases, while the cut was continued in the TCHC building. With the official opening of Don Summerville, all three components are now occupied.
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