Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre (PARC) partnered with Habitat Services to develop Edmond Place, transforming a derelict, burned out building into a renewed heritage property with 29 units of permanent, affordable, self-contained supportive housing units.
Once an overcrowded boarding house at the corner of Queen Street West and Dowling Avenue in Parkdale, the building lay in ruins for a decade after a deadly fire, until the City of Toronto used its expropriation powers for the first time for the purposes of creating affordable housing. PARC won a public RFP in 2007, rallied the community to support a Committee of Adjustment application, and completed the redevelopment by November 2010.
