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TTC barns finally become artists' colony

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.