Construction started this month on the new massive Etobicoke Civic Centre and will be completed in 2028.
Construction is underway for a new massive community-based Etobicoke Civic Centre (ECC), which will feature cutting edge technology.
The City’s CreateTO said the contract to construct the centre was awarded last December to Multiplex Construction Canada and work is slated to begin this month.
The 46,500 square metre project is expected to be completed in 2028, with staff moving in by December.
It said Adamson Associates Architects of Toronto, Henning Larsen Architects of Copenhagen and PMA Landscape Architects of Toronto were selected as the winning design team for the project.
“To date, a feasibility study, schematic design and detailed design have been completed,” according to CreateTO. The Centre will have four buildings, with the tallest at 16 storeys.
The Centre will have new council chambers, civic square, wedding chapel and prayer room among other amenities.
Once completed the Centre will have a recreation centre, municipal offices, market office space, an outdoor civic square, medical clinic, childcare centre, a café, public art gallery and a new Toronto Public Library district branch.
The recreation centre is proposed to have a gymnasium, aquatic centre, multi-purpose rooms and fitness rooms, according to plans.
Council Chamber will be located on the first floor directly above the main entrance and will be highly visible from the Civic Square. The second level of the building will house a child centre outdoor playground and a wedding chapel roof terrace.
“The new ECC will contribute positively to the area and be the jewel of the Etobicoke Centre,” city officials said, adding a number of city services will be housed there.
The new state-of-the-art facility will be the workplace for hundreds of city employees of a number of departments and for services offered.
It said the Centre will be the cornerstone of a complete community on six hectares of City-owned lands at the former Westwood Theatre Lands, at Bloor Street W., and Kipling Avenue. It will anchor a new residential and retail area with as many as 2,700 homes, 900 of which will meet Toronto’s affordable housing criteria.
The Six Points area was originally a web of roads until the city began work on a new intersection in 2017. This work cost $77 million and involved the demolition of bridges and creation of regular intersections between Kipling Avenue, Bloor Street W., and Dundas Street West.
The spacious Civic Centre will cost about $526 million to build.