Site Speak: Connexions Summer 2004

At the Centre

Exciting progress is being made with CAMH's redevelopment plans

Minister of Health and Long Term Care George Smitherman announced a Planning and Design grant of $16 million for the first phase of the redevelopment. This will allow us to develop detailed working drawings and specifications for a core bed building for more critically ill clients requiring specialized intensive care; the innovative homelike Alternate Milieu buildings for clients past the acute phase of their illness; and an administrative building.

A new video about the core bed buildings is available in our libraries. The proposed floor layouts include mostly single rooms with private bathrooms; smaller groupings of patient rooms; smaller and more care stations; more opportunities for client-staff interaction; a variety of spaces for group and private activities; more natural light; and a reception area for visitors.

The Ontario Municipal Board has approved the Official Plan, Zoning By-Law and the Draft Plan of Subdivision. We have worked successfully with the parties who appealed the Official Plan and Zoning By-Law to achieve this major accomplishment at the municipal planning level.

The Environmental Assessment Study was completed for the proposed extension of Ossington Avenue between Queen Street and Adelaide Street West, and Adelaide Street West between Shaw Street and Ossington Avenue as collector streets. The final report is available for review and comment at the CAMH libraries and public libraries close to the Queen Street site.

CAMH has retained E.R.A. Architects Inc. to assess the current condition of our historic Shaw Street brick wall and storage buildings and propose a strategy for preserving them essentially in their current form, with the addition of selective openings. The architects will also look at ways to incorporate elements from the winning design ideas for the wall from the Open Ideas Competition that CAMH held with the City of Toronto.

For more info:
www.camh.net/news_events/redevelopingqueenstsite.html or contact us at 416 535-8501 ext. 1650, or by e-mail at redevelopment_feedback@camh.net.

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