Renovating the Young Centre to be a more accessible and welcoming cultural facility

in progress

Under Construction

• Address community service gap by making cultural studio spaces open for public use; • Serve vulnerable population by making toilet facilities Universal, welcoming gender non-binary population, and addressing inequitable wait times; • Address accessibility by installing new automatic door, wider hallways, wheelchair level service counters; • Replace aging HVAC unit • Renovating to improve the quality of the public experience in the facility, and create a more open, welcoming experience. • Engage Accessibility and Gender Inclusion consultants on project. • Renovating washroom facilities to be universal with additional capacity • Renovating floorplan to create second-floor studio, and move existing ground-floor café and box office. • Renovate interior walls to create open & welcoming public space. • Move and replace HVAC with energy efficient environmental controls to ensure improved comfortable experience. • Renovate access and equipment purchase for public studio spaces. • Addressing equity issues of bathroom wait times, and creating safe welcoming facilities for vulnerable Trans and Gender non-binary population. • Increased access to public cultural spaces, that will benefit Toronto’s cultural community. This is a stated priority by City Council. • Increased accessibility for patrons with disabilities to services, including Café, Box Office, Ticket pick-up desk.

Canada

Infrastructure Canada

Project

Commercial, Residential