30 Ordnance Street

  • Located just east of Liberty Village, 30 Ordnance Street is located adjacent to one of Toronto’s most vibrant new neighbourhoods. Within walking distance of the lakeshore and the entertainment/shopping/gallery districts of West Queen West, Trinity Bellwoods Park, King Street West and Ossington, 30 Ordnance is also a quick bike or streetcar ride away from the downtown core and financial district. The site faces the new parks being added to the Fort York precinct and will thus have protected views of the dramatic downtown skyline to the east.

  • ONE Development participated in joint venture with Diamondcorp and the Whitecastle New Urban Fund. The existing building on the site was an underused warehouse space in an area undergoing intensification due to its prime location. In order to encourage economic diversity in the city, the space allocated to employment uses was maintained and enhanced in the future development through a mixed-use designation. Rather than simply converting the property to an all residential use, the redevelopment includes 26,000 sf of employment space (office, studio or workshops) in addition to the new residential uses. This innovative approach of no net loss of employment uses was strongly supported by the City as an important precedent to redevelopment of infill industrial sites.

  • The redevelopment transformed this site from an underused industrial zone into a green and diverse neighbourhood. As part of the new park to the east, the City of Toronto built a dramatic new sweeping S-shaped pedestrian bridge that will connect the Wellington neighbourhood in the north to Fort York and the waterfront in the south. Proximity to transit and mixed-use designation reinforce green planning principles. Building envelopes were carefully designed to avoid excess glazing on facades; window design provides good daylighting to suites while avoiding excessive summer heat gain and winter heat loss issues associated with standard window wall construction.

  • 30 Ordnance is a 500,000 square foot mixed use development with a podium containing the 26,000 square feet of office / studio use, and street related townhouses that animate a new pedestrian walkway that connects Ordnance Street to the new park and bridge. Two residential towers provide a wide range of unit types, most with uninterrupted views of the downtown skyline and Lake Ontario.