As of last week, there are eight cranes up and running at the future Canary District, the second major neighbourhood to be attempted south of Front Street in the last decade.
Unlike
City Place, however, the Canary District is incorporating several layers into its planned community in the hopes of creating a sustainable neighbourhood.
The cranes are stretched out over 35 acres, the simultaneous erections a reminder of a tight deadline. The district will be used at first as an athletes village for the
Pan/Parapan American Games, to be staged across the GTA in the summer of 2015.
"We’re building out the entire athletes village," says Michelle Cain, project manager for developer
Dundee Kilmer. "There are two cranes for the YMCA attached to the George Brown campus, two for the two buildings that will be affordable housing, and four cranes for the Canary District condos."
Ground was broken last May on the $514-million project designed by four architecture firms:
KPMB,
Architects Alliance,
Daoust Lestage and
MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Michelle Cain
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