About Toronto's Regent Park

Contemporary dance group Coleman Lemieux Compagnie just made Regent Park their home. The space has been retrofitted from the former Salvation Army Citadel, and they have been actively engaging with Daniels Corporation and Toronto Community Housing in support of the revitalization taking place at Regent Park. The Citadel will be a space of creativity and learning.

Area residents in the revitalized phase 1 and 2 consist of TCHC tenants and new condo owners, anchored by major national retailers in providing shopping and services, and soon to be complete Arts and Cultural Centre with a 400 seat theatre, and Aquatic Centre at the new 6 acre park. The new face of Regent Park continue to attract more new residents and visitors transforming this 69 acre redevelopment into a thriving community.

If you'd like more information on living in one of the completed condos or preconstruction inventory, feel free to get in touch. I'd love to help!

Regent Park Condos by Daniels Development:

One Cole [completed]

Cole Street townhomes [completed]

One Park West [completed]

Paintbox [Under construcion. Occupancy starting this summer. Some units left.]

One Park Place [Under construction. Pre-sale information will be launched shortly.]

To complement the existing car sharing program at the revitalized Regent Park, Toronto Community Housing and Daniels have entered into an agreement to extend BIXI Toronto's modular bicycle sharing system in the downtown core to the neighbourhood. Two bike docking stations should be installed within the next week. One is on Dundas, just in front of FreshCo. The other will be on Parliament St, just south of Gerrard. Regent Park residents can drop off and pick up bicycles from location to location 24 hours a day.

This Sunday, Caroline Macfarlane and Vanessa Nicholas from the OCADU Student Gallery will be bringing their GOOD BIKE project to Regent Park. Initiated by Adam Molson at One Cole and TCHC, Regent Park will be the first neighbourhood where this art project will be installed, as it spreads to other parts of the City. They've sanded and primed 9 recycled bikes, which residents from One Cole condominium, the Townhomes and the new social housing buildings next door are invited to come out and paint. A few of the bikes also have baskets, which we may be planting as well. 2 of the bikes will be placed within the community, and Caroline and Vanessa will be placing the rest throughout the city. Local residents of social and market housing will interact together to actively bring art to the neighbourhood. The event starts at 2pm and should last a few hours. Please drop by and say hi.

Caroline's summary of the GOOD BIKE project:

The neon bike outside of the OCAD U Student Gallery was conceived as a public art project. As artists, our intention was to reclaim, beautify and energize neglected public space. The bike's bold, graphic and current aesthetic has made it a success and attracted local and and international attention. We are now partnering with the City on a large scale project that will see dozens of variations on the neon bike placed strategically throughout Toronto. Each bike will mark a site that promotes the ethos of regeneration and community that sparked our creativity in the first place. By partnering with our municipal government on this initiative, we're hoping hoping to start a conversation about city planning, biking and public art in Toronto. Ideally, the attention and publicity surrounding the bikes will give the City impetus to kick start a recurring public art program and help us fundraise for a number of new bike racks.

Related Link:

The Good Bike Project

Regent Park's newest addition of boutique condominiums, One Park West, is almost ready for occupancy. There is only one unit left [990sf, 2 bdrm plus den]. Call me for details!

What's special about living in this neighhourhood?

-being in the heart of downtown

-short walk away to the Historic Distillery, St Lawrence Market, Cabbagetown, Riverdale Park, all service, gourmet shops and conveniences.

-walk score of 92!

-ttc at door

-3 min to DVP

-live across from the Big Park 6 acres, world class aquatic centre and arts and cultural centre

Regent Park Arts & Cultural Centre, a facility comprising of 60,000sf progam space is well underway. As part of the major component of Phase 2's revitalized Regent Park, the largest phase of the six phased development located off Dundas Street, and where the PAINTBOX condominium will sit atop.

This non-profit facility will house the artistic and cultural talents on three floors in Regent Park where experience/learning/innovation comes together, and marks a major cultural destination in the City of Toronto. The first floor will feature a 400 seat multi-purpose performance/ event space and large outdoor performance court. This level will be dedicated to music, dance, and theatre performances, film, screenings, cultural festivals and community events.

Related links:

www.regentparkarts.ca

Toronto Artscape Regent Park

Flickr photo stream of the new building