National Ballet School of Canada/Radio City

Format
Brief

City
Toronto

State/Province
ON

Country
Canada

Metro Area
Toronto

Project Type
Mixed Use

Location Type
Central Business District

Land Uses
Education
Entertainment
Multifamily For-Sale Housing
Open space
Performance Space
Retail
Single-family Attached Housing

Keywords
Ballet School
Creative finance
High-density development
Historic buildings
Historic preservation
Plaza
Public art
Public-private partnership
Transfer of development rights
ULI Awards for Excellence 2008 Winner
Urban infill

Site Size
2.4 acres
acres hectares

Date Started
2003

Date Opened
2007

A brief is a short version of a case study.

After the Canadian Broadcast Corporation relocated its English-language broadcasting headquarters from this historic Toronto neighborhood in 1997, the land and buildings sat vacant for several years. Formerly home to a 152-meter (499-ft) radio tower, offices, and performance space, the one-hectare (2.4-ac) site—located in the dense rental market of Church/ Wellesley Village—now consists of 32,516 square meters (350,000 sf) of condominium space, 18 townhouses, and a 16,723-square-meter (180,000-sf) arts training institute.

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Developers/Owners
National Ballet School of Canada
Toronto, ON, Canada

Context Development, Inc.
Toronto, ON, Canada

Design Architects
Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
Toronto, ON, Canada

architectsAlliance
Toronto, ON, Canada

Master Planner
Goldsmith Borgal & Company Limited Architects
Toronto, ON, Canada

Urban Planner
Urban Strategies, Inc.
Toronto, ON, Canada

Website
www.radiocitycondo.com

Principal Author(s)
Theodore Thoerig

ULI Awards for Excellence 2008 Winner