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Waterfront Toronto Announces Details of the Athletes’ Village For the 2015 Pan Am Games

The ambitious development project will transform the West Don Lands.

By Steve Kupferman

This morning, Waterfront Toronto announced the long-awaited details of the 2015 Pan Am Games athletes’ village. The project, when complete, will transform a formerly fallow section of Toronto’s waterfront west of the Don Valley Expressway, known as the West Don Lands.

A press release about the project, posted online this afternoon, pegs the gross cost to the province at $514 million. The contractor is Dundee Kilmer Developments. After the games are complete, the facilities will become a mixed-use neighbourhood, with an 82,000 square foot YMCA and a dormitory for George Brown students.

Torontoist will have more detailed coverage of the announcement soon. In the meantime, check out the renderings, above. A promotional video is embedded after the jump.

Images and video courtesy of Waterfront Toronto.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Seymore-Applebaum/1602114120 Seymore Applebaum

    If these ambitious 2015 Pan Am Games construction projects run into financial and time challenges the funders will have to find more resources (labour and funds) to ensure they are completed on time. Part of the challenge is to find enough skilled labour to do the jobs that need to be done. Not enough people have chosen to become skilled trades people. That’s where the jobs are! So we are likely to see under-skilled people working on some of these projects and that could be dangerous or we’ll have to bring in workers from further and further distances.

    • Anonymous

      The joys of the free market economy is that if there a labour shortage for a particular profession, then wages for that profession will rise, encouraging people to take it up and increasing supply. Also, higher wages will suppress demand, which also helps.
      So, what are you worrying about?

      • John Duncan

        Probably the 2015 deadline.

        Job training takes time, and even with EI and retraining funding the job market is notoriously “sticky” in that people don’t immediately bail out on their existing training to pursue a different job path due to short-term supply/demand changes.

        (I’d actually disagree with Seymore anyway. We’re in the middle of a construction boom in Toronto, and probably can’t support more tradespeople than we currently have once that slows.)

    • http://www.facebook.com/paullloydjohnson Paul Lloyd Johnson

      Wow, what a negative comment! After reading the article and watching the video I feel excited by this project and what it will bring to Toronto. I pity people that see things so negatively, what a terrible way to live.

      • Anonymous

        FYI, dismissing someone’s life as terrible is more negative than criticizing an aspect of a construction project.

        • http://www.facebook.com/paullloydjohnson Paul Lloyd Johnson

          I didn’t say that their life was terrible, but that it’s terrible to have a negative outlook.

    • Anonymous

      I recall a province-wide trades people education campaign less than two years ago. Graduates of the various relevant programs and apprenticeships will be on the job by 2015 with a few years under their belts. Unclench.

  • NC

    AMEN to the East End YMCA!!

  • Nick

    Looks better than a Macy’s!

  • smacvert

    Nice to see the old Canary sign! Closed since 2008 but still loved and missed! Wouldn’t it be nice to see it reopen?! :)