Junction Triangle

As many of you are aware, the TTC owned land at 640 Lansdowne Avenue was contaminated by previous industrial uses from the surrounding area. Following a lengthy legal battle between General Electric and the TTC over this contamination, an agreement was finally reached earlier this year.

As a result of my efforts and for the City and TTC to do its due diligence in facilitating the eventual transfer of this land, work is presently underway to complete the environmental testing process on the site to determine the current situation and next steps. This will include a Phase 1 and 2 Environmental Assessment and a Remedial Action Plan. These steps are necessary to ensure that something actually takes place on the land.

I have been informed that this work has started yesterday, meaning that action is taking place after many long years of this site sitting vacant and nothing happening.

This site has also been identified as a potential site for affordable housing through the City's Open Door Program. I would like to caution that everything is still very much in the preliminary stages and I will be updating the community as this issue progresses and the picture becomes clearer.

At one time the TTC property was considered for the new 11 Division police headquarters as it would be a inter City land transfer but the costs and timeline of remediation made it unworkable.

The TTC owns the property, and the soil was being remediated due to a large TCE contamination. The TTC commissioned the art work so that it wouldn't look like such an eyesore while the remediation was ongoing. I have yet to see much work done to the property, the gravel is moved around once or twice a year. However, recently two trailers, a porta-potty and a tent have been moved into place on the north west corner of the property. I am guessing that more work on the soil will be taking place. As for what it will become, the lands abut the gelatin factory, so I am guessing due to current zoning legislation residential use will not be feasible. (and its unlikely that you'd want to live there, the gelatin factory smells terrible.)
There was rumour that it was going to be turned into a park, which seems like a possible use, otherwise more light industrial or commercial. We could see something similar to the outdoor mall development going in at Keele and St. Clair as it faced similar zoning issues due to being next to the slaughterhouse.