Presently under construction, with completion slated for Summer 2011, this 300 unit affordable and supportive housing project is located in Toronto between Edward Street, Elm Street, Elizabeth Street and Chestnut Street, south of Sick Children's Hospital.
The project includes the restoration of the remnants of an 1848 House of Industry, and construction of new housing with a 200 seat lecture hall, a restaurant, a boutique, an Aboriginal Economic Resource Centre and head offices for YWCA Toronto and YWCA Canada.
The building will harness a large geoexchange well field below the site, using ground source heat pumps coupled with radiant slab heating and cooling and energy recovery ventilation systems. A large central courtyard and rooftop green roofs provide outdoor amenity space for the tenants.
YWCA Toronto initiated the project in partnership with Wigwamen Incorporated and Jean Tweed Centre. We are working with regional Architects on the project.