During the Toronto City Council meeting yesterday Mayor David Miller announced the names of the main “lessee” (tenant) and the construction manager for the City of Toronto’s project to revitalize Union Station. The Mayor also announced that the City had finalized its agreement to sell part of the station to Metrolinx.
The $640 million project will improve Canada’s busiest rail passenger facility. The governments of Canada and Ontario are also supporting the project by investing $133M (Canada) and $172M (Ontario) each.
The City has approved Osmington Inc., through its subsidiary Redcliff (Union Station) Inc., as the head lessee that will develop about 14,800 square metres (160,000 square feet) of new retail space in the station, including new retail space in the lower retail concourse. Osmington’s subsidiary, Redcliff Realty Group, will lease, manage and operate of the retail space.
City Council also approved Vanbots, a division of Carillion Construction Inc. as the construction manager. Vanbots will manage contracts, co-ordinate and control construction work to keep the project on track and make sure contractors finish the project by 2015.
Besides the new retail area in the lower level, the project also includes a new upper-level transportation concourse area of about 11,700 square metres (126,000 square feet) for GO Transit passengers and a new “northwest passage”, connecting Union Station to the underground PATH system at Wellington Street.
Metrolinx has agreed to buy the future east and west concourses for GO passengers, and part of Union Station’s west wing to house its main offices.
You can learn more about the City’s plans to improve Union Station here.
You learn more about GO Transit’s plans for Union Station here.
And, meanwhile, you can find out what’s going on underground, with the TTC’s project to build a second platform at the Union (subway) Station here.
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