Work has begun on the athletes village for the 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games, a development that will add 1,040 residential units to the Waterfront.
Dundee Kilmer are the developers who signed the $514-million fixed-price contract with the province to develop the site.
The architects are KPMB, Architects Alliance, Doaust LeStage,
TEN Arquitectos and
MacLennan Jaunkains Miller.
Ellis DonLedcor PAAV Inc. are the builders.
In addition to the residences, the project will add a new streetcar line along Cherry Street, an 82,000-square-foot YMCA and a student residence for the new Waterfront campus of George Brown College (the college's first residence).
Seven hundred and eighty-seven of the residential units will ultimately be designated market value, while the remaining 253 will be low-cost rentals.
The goal is to get the entire project certified LEED Gold.
Those involved are betting the project will be completed before July 10, 2015, when the Pan American Games begin. The Parapan American Games run August 7-14.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Tari Stork
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