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NEW IMAGES: Henning Larsen Architects, Toronto architects KPMB and landscape architecture studio SLA are leading plans to completely reinvent a 2 kilometre airstrip and adjacent land into a massive mixed-use community.
Described as the world’s largest infill project, the development of the 520-acre site, will be built around a two-kilometre-long runway, which is to be turned into a "pedestrian corridor" that links the community districts.
-Ten districts with housing for approximately 80,000 people
-More than 1 million square metres of commercial space
-Three transit stations
-40 hectares of parks and situated at the intersection of two ravines
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1 million square feet of film/tv production studios, lead by California-based Hackman Capital Partners, a multi-billion dollar entertainment production real estate firm with a number of major U.S. studio sites.
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An example of conversion of the hangers.
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I wish just one of Henning Larsen's wonderful downtown projects would see shovels in the ground soon (Distillery District, Etobicoke Civic Centre etc.). In an idiotic, poorly-timed and roundly-criticized move, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) nixed the tower component of expansion plans for an new science campus, which would have provided needed student housing in a beautifully-designed 44 storey high-rise.
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Speaking of big plans - the Lower Don Lands after the rain.
There’s at least 2 pots of gold at the end of those rainbows (the Lower Don Lands has been setting a new gold standard for urban regeneration).
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