{"id":32829,"date":"2025-10-18T23:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/toronto-breaks-ground-on-705-unit-transit-oriented-community-in-scarborough\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T23:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:20:08","slug":"toronto-breaks-ground-on-705-unit-transit-oriented-community-in-scarborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/toronto-breaks-ground-on-705-unit-transit-oriented-community-in-scarborough\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto breaks ground on 705-unit transit-oriented community in Scarborough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>TORONTO \u2013 The City of Toronto and CreateTO have broken ground on new transit-oriented, mixed-use community in Scarborough southwest that will have a total of 705 new purpose-built rental homes including 256 affordable rental homes.<\/p>\n<p>The development is located at 777 Victoria Park Ave., formerly a TTC commuter parking lot, and is being developed through a partnership between the city, CreateTO, CMHC, Alterra Group of Companies and Mahogany Management.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the housing, the site will include a new child care centre, publicly accessible open space, community space, improvements to the public realm and retail, states a release. It will also feature a geothermal energy system.<\/p>\n<p>This site is one of almost 100 city-owned sites that are either housing ready or may be unlocked for new housing.<\/p>\n<p>The new homes will be a mix of unit types including family-sized two- and three-bedroom homes.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/projects\/2025\/10\/toronto-breaks-ground-on-705-unit-transit-oriented-community-in-scarborough\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] TORONTO \u2013 The City of Toronto and CreateTO have broken ground on new transit-oriented, mixed-use community in Scarborough southwest &#8230; <a title=\"Toronto breaks ground on 705-unit transit-oriented community in Scarborough\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/toronto-breaks-ground-on-705-unit-transit-oriented-community-in-scarborough\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Toronto breaks ground on 705-unit transit-oriented community in Scarborough\">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-32829","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\/32829","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=32829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}