A community initiative has transformed a set of 95-year-old streetcar maintenance barns into an artists' colony and community centre in mid-town Toronto. The Wychwood Barns Project (Christie + St. Clair, Toronto) opens Thursday after a $21.2-million redevelopment of former Toronto Transit Commission barns unused for more than 25 years.
The barns, built between 1913 and 1921, were converted into:
- 26 units of housing for artists and their families.
- 15 affordable studio spaces.
- 13 offices for non-profit arts and environmental groups.
- Two theatre spaces and an art gallery.
- A community space that will be home to a farmers market.
- A year-round greenhouse.
- Parkland and playgrounds.
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