Community at Ontario Line’s Queen-Spadina station to include 214 new housing units
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The Ministry of Infrastructure has launched an open market to find a building partner for a transit-oriented community at the Ontario Line’s Queen-Spadina station.
This community will result in about 214 new housing units and 60 new jobs, the province said.
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“Our government is protecting Ontario by creating more housing and jobs closer to transit stations,” said Kinga Surma, Minister of Infrastructure, in a statement. “We’re partnering with the private sector to build two mixed-use residential buildings at one of Toronto’s most iconic intersections while preserving the area’s heritage landscape and vibrant history.”
The proposed 14- and 15-storey mixed-use residential towers will connect to the underground subway station on the Ontario Line and TTC streetcar service.
Residents will also have over 215 spaces for bicycle parking, as well as access to nearby Kensington Market, Chinatown, concerts, sporting events and restaurants.
The Ontario government is planninng such communities at 12 future subway stations along the Ontario Line, Yonge North Subway Extension and Scarborough Subway Extension.
In total, the province said it will create space for 56,000 new residential units, including affordable housing, as well as office and retail space to support approximately 75,000 new jobs.
Potential partners will have until July 22, 2025 to submit an expression of interest for the opportunity to build the transit-oriented community above the future Queen-Spadina station.
Meanwhile, Metrolinx has launched a naming contest for Ontario Line subway tunnel boring machines that will dig the tunnels in the southern — or downtown — portion of the Ontario Line subway project between Exhibition Station and the Don River.
The first two of four project TBMs have arrived in Canada and Metrolinx is accepting names for these titans of tunnelling until June 23. Submissions can also include pairs of related names.
After the submission period closes, community members can vote on their top choices.
Winners of the naming contest will be credited and have the chance be part of a photo-op with the mammoth machines at the TBM tunnel launch shaft.
To submit names and read the rules for the Ontario Line naming contest, visit metrolinx.com/NameOurTBMs.
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