{"id":32439,"date":"2025-09-22T22:22:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T05:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/bloor-kipling-transit-oriented-community-moving-ahead-of-schedule\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T22:22:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T05:22:57","slug":"bloor-kipling-transit-oriented-community-moving-ahead-of-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/bloor-kipling-transit-oriented-community-moving-ahead-of-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloor-Kipling transit-oriented community moving ahead of schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 Construction of a new transit-oriented community at Bloor-Kipling is ahead of schedule as the City of Toronto and CreateTO prepare for the next phase of rental housing development.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Mayor Olivia Chow, Deputy Mayor Amber Morley, CreateTO and city staff celebrated the progress made on the new mixed-use project that aims to redefine Etobicoke at Bloor-Kipling.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by Kilmer-Tricon, the 5207 Dundas St. W. build, also known as The Stella, is three months ahead of schedule. This is one of five blocks identified for rental housing development on city-owned land, delivered through CreateTO, explains a release.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_494531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-494531\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-494531\" src=\"https:\/\/cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/teh-stellaweb.png\" alt=\"Developed by Kilmer-Tricon, Toronto\u2019s 5207 Dundas St. W. build, also known as The Stella, is three months ahead of schedule. It is one of five blocks identified for rental housing development on city-owned land.\" width=\"400\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/teh-stellaweb.png 400w, https:\/\/cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/teh-stellaweb-282x300.png 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-494531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TRICON RESIDENTIAL \u2014 Developed by Kilmer-Tricon, Toronto\u2019s 5207 Dundas St. W. build, also known as The Stella, is three months ahead of schedule. It is one of five blocks identified for rental housing development on city-owned land.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The development includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>five rental housing developments (including 5207 Dundas St. W), which will include approximately 2,700 residential homes, at least 900 of which will be affordable rental homes;<\/li>\n<li>the new Etobicoke Civic Centre; and<\/li>\n<li>a new city park.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bloor-Kipling will also be Toronto\u2019s first net-zero community, the city states. All development blocks will be serviced by a District Energy plant with all heating and cooling provided by a thermal district energy network.<\/p>\n<p>The city invested $77 million to decommission the former Six-Points Interchange, replacing what was known as \u201cSpaghetti Junction\u201d with a new network of streets, unlocking almost 18 acres of land and creating the seven blocks for redevelopment, the release adds.<\/p>\n<p>The next housing block for development at 970 Kipling Ave. is currently in market to bring on a development partner. First occupancy at 5207 Dundas St. W is expected in Q2 2027. The new Etobicoke Civic Centre is currently under construction and is expected to be complete in the fourth quarter of 2028.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/projects\/2025\/09\/bloor-kipling-transit-oriented-community-moving-ahead-of-schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] TORONTO \u2014 Construction of a new transit-oriented community at Bloor-Kipling is ahead of schedule as the City of Toronto &#8230; <a title=\"Bloor-Kipling transit-oriented community moving ahead of schedule\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/bloor-kipling-transit-oriented-community-moving-ahead-of-schedule\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bloor-Kipling transit-oriented community moving ahead of schedule\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-32439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}