Artscape is a not-for-profit organization that
makes space for creativity and transforms communities.
Artscape is a not-for-profit organization that
makes space for creativity and transforms communities.
Toronto Community Housing, The Daniels Corporation and Artscape formed a joint venture to develop and operate the new Centre in consultation with the Regent Park Arts & Cultural Centre Community Advisory Committee.
Artscape will be responsible for overseeing the development and ongoing operation of the Regent Park Arts & Cultural Centre. Artscape is a not-for profit urban development organization that makes space for creativity and transforms communities. Artscape operates as a social enterprise and is comprised of 3 not-for-profit organizations: a development arm, a charity, and a housing provider. Artscape projects provide affordable space for creativity while generating positive cultural, economic, social and environmental impacts. Since its inception in 1986, Artscape has transformed a portfolio of underutilized buildings across Toronto into dynamic community assets that serve to enable innovation and creativity, including the award-winning Artscape Wychwood Barns and multi-tenant arts facilities in the Queen Street West, Liberty Village, Toronto Island and Distillery Historic District neighbourhoods. Collectively, Artscape manages 10 buildings for 863 artist and cultural worker tenants and owners in 417,000 square feet of space. www.torontoartscape.on.ca.
Toronto Community Housing is Canada's largest social housing provider and home to more than 164,000 tenants with low and moderate incomes—about six per cent of the City of Toronto's population. Toronto Community Housing employs 1,400 staff in a broad range of jobs, who deliver its mission to provide affordable housing, connect tenants to services and opportunities, and work together to build healthy communities. www.torontohousing.ca
Founded in 1982, The Daniels Corporation is one of Canada’s leading and most diversified residential builders and developers. Daniels has built more than 18,000 homes and apartments in a diverse range of award-winning communities throughout the Greater Toronto Area. Daniels has partnered with Toronto Community Housing as the developer and construction partner for all six phases of the Regent Park revitalization. Daniels has a long history of building homes to high-energy performance standards. In Regent Park, Daniels’ will set a new benchmark for environmental sustainability. The Daniels Corporation will manage the construction of the Regent Park Arts & Cultural Centre. www.danielshomes.ca
Toronto Community Housing, The Daniels Corporation and Artscape are collaborating on the Regent Park Arts & Cultural Centre with the support of a community-based advisory committee comprised of locally-based arts, cultural and community leaders:
Neil Clarke, Community Coordinator, Regent Park Neighbourhood Initiative
Debra Dineen, Board Member, Regent Park Neighbourhood Initiative
Adonis Huggins, Program Director, Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre
Leslie Lester, Executive Director, Soulpepper Theatre Company
Lori Martin, Senior Cultural Affairs Officer, City of Toronto
Carol Moore-Ede, Chair, Cabbagetown Regent Park Museum
