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Tower Renewal featured on Passive House Podcast
Ya’el Santopinto, CUG+R Director of Research and Partnerships, talks urban policy, tower renewal, and the preservation of vital rental housing. In April, Santopinto sat down with Mary James…
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ULI Tower Renewal Panel & Report Release
Tower Renewal Partnership’s Graeme Stewart speaks at ULI Panel event and report release On December 3, the Tower Renewal Partnership’s Graeme Stewart joined a virtual expert panel to…
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TRP publishes COVID policy response to boost economy, renew postwar towers
Yesterday, Graeme Stewart and Ya’el Santopinto published an article detailing how to boost the Canadian retrofit economy, renew aging towers and secure healthy and affordable housing. As outlined…
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CUG+R and NAIMA Launch Online Training for Construction Industry
In partnership with the North American Insulation Manufacturers Association of Canada (NAIMA Canada), the Centre for Urban Growth + Renewal has developed an online training resource to help…
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Tower Renewal: A Field Guide to Retrofits in Occupied Buildings
The Centre for Urban Growth + Renewal has released a new “Field Guide” designed to assist apartment owners, the construction industry and apartment residents navigate retrofit construction projects…
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Supporting Canada’s Climate Resilience, Housing Affordability And Economic Recovery Through Deep Retrofit And Housing Renewal
The Tower Renewal Partnership has put together a quick and easy-to-read reference guide or “primer” to Tower Renewal including an introduction to high rise retrofits in Canada, a…
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TRP releases new affordable housing infill report
In the spring of 2020, the Tower Renewal Partnership completed CMHC-funded research examining the opportunity and challenges of utilizing existing Tower in the Park sites for the creation of…
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TRP releases new report addressing retrofit gaps in Canada
In January 2020, the Tower Renewal Partnership completed CMHC-funded research identifying product, skill and technological gaps in the Canadian retrofit market and industry. The report outlines key opportunities…
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ULI Panel proposes significant City action for Tower Renewal
The Tower Renewal Partnership and the City of Toronto recently partnered with the Urban Land Institute (ULI) to bring experts to Toronto for a weeklong visit to explore…
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Ken Soble Tower Transformation in SAB Magazine
The Ken Soble Tower Transformation Project was recently featured in SAB Magazine’s Fall 2019 edition. At 18 storeys and more than 80,000 sqft, the Ken Soble Tower will…
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Tower Renewal & Tax Incentives
In August, the Tower Renewal Partnership (TRP) conducted new analysis on incenting nation-wide comprehensive tower retrofits. In particular, tax incentives were modelled and evaluated to understand how they…
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TRP launches retrofit research with EU partners
The Tower Renewal Partnership (TRP) has received CMHC support to kick-start a research program with two new research projects: ‘Advancing Building Retrofits’ and ‘Enabling Complete Communities’. In April,…
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TRP Launches ‘Retrofits with Residents in Place’ Solutions Lab
The Centre for Urban Growth and Renewal has received CMHC support to explore the challenges of conducting deep energy retrofits in occupied apartment housing and develop tools to…
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Tower Renewal on CBC Radio
As aging apartment buildings begin to contribute to the housing crisis, (exposed this week in the infrastructure failure at 260 Wellesley, Toronto) the clear response is system-scale reinvestment…
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Tower Renewal Partnership in AD Magazine
Calling All Architects: New Approaches to Old Housing For the past decade, Tower Renewal has been defined by research, policy design and action. Through multi-sectoral partnerships, best-practice and…
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A Renewable Resource: Modernizing Toronto’s Apartment Towers
The Tower Renewal Partnership was recently covered by the Urban Land Institute. The article covers the history of Tower Renewal in Toronto, the landmark Ken Soble Tower passive…
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RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT COMMERCIAL (RAC) ZONING
Illustration by Daniel Rotsztain As of October 2016, five hundred apartment tower neighbourhoods in the City of Toronto acquired the ability to reconceive the social and economic character…