Toronto Police Division 11 is relocating, and the city owed building will be empty. This building would make a wonderful mixed use centre for the community.
And just to let everyone know this can happen, here is the story of an old Parkdale police station that has become a mixed use centre for the that community.
Although this author believes the community can ,manage and run a centre without the assistance of the Parks department or Artscape, not that those are not fine groups, it’s just the Junction is the Junction.
During doors open you can visit this centre
From the doors open site
| 1313 Queen St. West was constructed in 1931 as City of Toronto Police Station Division 6 . It remained a police station until the early 1960’s . It then became emergency housing with the city of Toronto for about 14 years . The building then became a Metro property until it was turned over to Artscape for a 20 year lease at $1 /year . This came about with the support of the community and many individuals with the vision that the building would become a community venue for organizations and also house 9 live /work artist studios managed by Artscape . Today the building is full of activity and artists are now living in the original stable house. | |||||
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| Learn the history of this former Police Station. Exhibition curated by Christopher Hume which displays works by Toronto artists inspired by local architecture. | |||||
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| Getting there: Click here for map. | |||||
| TTC (nearest station) Lansdowne /Dufferin & Bus to Queen St. W Bus/streetcar: Brock Street | |||||
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I'm sure you can find the sponsors and volunteers in a city like this. Whether or not it's successful depends on the competence and experience of who's organizing it. I don't know if I'd want that building to stay though; it's so bland.