The Globe and Mail
Summary
If you peek through the fence at a major development site in Toronto’s West End, you might hear a lot of trash talk – but it’s all in the name of taking care of the environment.
The project at 2 Tecumseth St. is a 1-million-square-foot development on five acres, with five buildings set to rise from the rubble of a former abattoir. The developer, Toronto real estate firm TAS, is also leasing and redeveloping an additional adjacent building at the site of the Wellington Destructor, an incinerator and garbage transfer station built in 1925 and closed in the 1990s.
TAS also plans to retain the existing abattoir chimney to be used as an exhaust ventilator in a district energy heating and cooling system. In addition, the design team of the 2 Tecumseth project is looking at how heavy timber posts and beams on site can be repurposed as landscape furniture.
“We see bringing the circular economy to the development sector as really important,” Ms. Stiff says.
In addition to reusing materials, “the new development will be car-free and have a geothermal, district energy-based, low carbon operating system,” she adds. Toronto has several district energy systems, including systems at the University of Toronto, York University, Regent Park and the Enwave Deep Lake Water Cooling System that uses Lake Ontario water to cool more than 80 downtown buildings.
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