TORONTO | Regent Park Redevelopment
-Regent Park lies on the East side of downtown Toronto
-built in the late 1940s. -looks similar to some of the housing projects in New York and Chicago, but in lowrise form -gradually being torn down and replaced with buildings that are aligned to a restored street grid -along major streets that buildings have/will have retail, with townhouse units at the base of some of the buildings along frontages of secondary streets -surface parking lots and setbacks will be gone -when completed will have twice the number of residential units as it did before the redevelopment Map of area: http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/y...g?t=1276469304 Aerial view: http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/y...g?t=1276469355 In these pictures you can see all the unused open space and lack of retail at the base of the buildings: http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/y...g?t=1276469409 http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/y...g?t=1276469481 Google Streetview of Phase 1, which includes a Sobey's supermarket and other retailers: http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/y...g?t=1276470166 Below pictures from the following article, "Phase 1 of Regent Park revitalization nears completion": http://www.blogto.com/city/2010/03/p...rs_completion/ http://www.torontohousing.ca/webfm_send/4390 http://www.blogto.com/upload/2010/03...-Side-View.jpg http://www.blogto.com/upload/2010/03...ownhouses2.jpg http://www.blogto.com/upload/2010/03...das-Church.jpg http://www.blogto.com/upload/2010/03...Townhouses.jpg Phase 2: http://www.torontohousing.ca/news/20...park_phase_two |
Looks fantastic.
Do you know where I could find the answer to the following questions... -What is the break down of the new housing? How many of the new units are listed as market rate and how many units are reserved for replacement public housing? -Will the number of public housing units increase, decrease or stay about the same? -How successful have the market rate units been? -Are the market rate units listed as for sale, rental, or a combination of both? -What are the qualifications to become eligible for the public housing units (is there a graduated scale of income caps for particular units and/or family sizes)? -How much retail is being included and are there any other mixed uses such as office space? This project is far better than the vast majority of public housing replacement projects underway in the US. I genuinely want know if the financing, programing and housing mix is any different. |
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New York City has loads of areas that could use this treatment - even in Manhattan. In fact, they look almost identical to pre-revitalization Regent Park (cross-shaped brown buildings, no balconies, very little retail, unused grassy spaces between the sidewalk and the buildings, few and far between thru-streets), only in New York they are much taller thus more densely populated. Yet I haven't seen any recent proposals to tear any of them down and give them this kind of treatment. |
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The pressures to live in New York are so great that any sort of redevelopment would inevitably turn into a major gentrification - the opportunities to make money are just too great. I would not trust politicians to do redevelopment in an equitable manner. Hell, I wouldn't even trust them to get a damn subway built, even when pretty much everybody agrees it's a good idea. |
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Even if they're not going to tear them down, they should at least encourage lowrise retail buildings to be built on the unused open space. Thousands of people can live in a single housing project. Easily enough to support 50,000+ square feet of retail. I'm not talking Dolce and Gabbana, just basic everyday stuff - grocery stores, drug stores, dry cleaners, mid-market restaurants, convenience stores, etc. Read about the Tower Renewal Project: http://knol.google.com/k/a-future-vi...erican-suburb# Quote:
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I mean that middle-class residents of those towers would be forced out - of Manhattan altogether, since there's no way they could afford units at market-rate. How is it fair or equitable to shifts tens of thousands of middle-class workers to the outer boroughs or suburbs?
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The moreso centre towers are from the Regent park redevelopment, including the one under construction. I took this yesterday.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4917/...be67aaf1_b.jpgTJ286888 by Josh Kenn Photographics, on Flickr |
I took this today of some a new phase going up...
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...3296db0d_b.jpgDSC_1316 by Draulerin Photographics, on Flickr |
That’s looking pretty good. I think, as long as they help to support the middle class people in that area and work with them to get the right housing needs in place, it’ll be a really solid change compared to some other cities that have done similar projects. Canada is typically pretty good at thinking about what is best for the community, and the gradual changes here exemplify that pretty well.
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Taken on the 16th (Sunday)
This phase is called Artworks...it's a 33 story building with a midrise extension (foreground)
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...8879abdb_b.jpgConstruction by Draulerin Photographics, on Flickr This view down this street used to be lowrise apartments...it's weird thinking how different this place looks now. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...c309a88c_b.jpgConstruction by Draulerin Photographics, on Flickr Well, mostly.....the north section of Regent Park remains. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...872131d3_b.jpgConstruction by Draulerin Photographics, on Flickr Another phase....(Artworks in the background) https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...e67b4e53_b.jpgConstruction by Draulerin Photographics, on Flickr |
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