Background

In 2007, Artscape, the City of Toronto, Urbancorp and Active 18 announced this pioneering new below-market live/work development for the arts community within Urbancorp’s Westside Gallery Lofts condominium development. The goal of this partnership is to permanently preserve vital artist work and living space in the Queen West Triangle neighbourhood. Artscape Triangle Lofts will serve as a model across Toronto and internationally, where gentrification threatens to displace creative people from their neighbourhoods.

Artscape Triangle Lofts is a non-profit initiative to create a new self-sustaining development model that permits opportunities for both rental housing and live/work ownership, encourages a mixed-use community, and supports a range of incomes in the arts community in perpetuity. Sales for the ownership units opened in August 2009 and were 100% sold by January 2010.

Artscape is pleased to acknowledge the tremendous leadership of the City of Toronto, and project partners Urbancorp and Active 18 in developing this new model. Without their support and commitment, this project would not be possible.