Parkdale United Church Foundation maintains a housing-based ministry in an existing 11 storey apartment tower containing 136 affordable housing units constructed in 1976 in Parkdale.
Green Phoenix is a phased project that has created ten new affordable housing units within an existing adjacent low-rise building formerly used for offices, and has provided the entire site with a new geoexchange ground source heat pump heating and cooling system, and a solar-assisted domestic water system. Phase 2 is now complete, with the retrofit of the existing tower for greater energy efficiency.
A third phase will add an additional 11 affordable housing units and amenity space and a church expansion around the north and west sides of the base of the tower.
The project received a City of Toronto Award of Excellence as a finalist in the 2007 Green Toronto Awards.