{"id":9105,"date":"2013-11-13T16:39:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T20:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eraarch.ca\/?p=9105"},"modified":"2013-12-18T18:40:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T22:40:22","slug":"community-hub-at-former-police-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eraarch.ca\/2013\/community-hub-at-former-police-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Hub at former police station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.era.on.ca\/blogs\/office\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/trillium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"trillium\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.era.on.ca\/blogs\/office\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/trillium-500x312.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Together with the Junction Commons Project Community Group, ERA Architects and Urban Metrics are working with the residents of Toronto\u2019s Junction neighbourhood to envision and examine the feasibility of transforming a former police station into a community hub.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.era.on.ca\/blogs\/office\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Division 11 of the Toronto Police Services recently relocated to an adapted 1913 schoolhouse <a href=\"http:\/\/era.on.ca\/2013\/05\/16\/division-11\/\">designed by Stantec Architecture with ERA<\/a>. The former facility, a 25,000 sq. ft. building, would have been sold for private development if not for the efforts of a group of Junction residents who asked the City to retain the building and consider its for the site of a community hub.<\/p>\n<p>The Junction Commons Project has formed as a working group dedicated to transforming the site to provide new programs and services to the community. This year it was awarded a Trillium grant to conduct a feasibility study to assess potential uses for the site, taking into consideration various opportunities and constraints of the architecture, the needs of the neighbourhood, and a range of business criteria. ERA and urbanMetrics are working together with the community to produce this study.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the project, please see the <a href=\"http:\/\/junctioncommons.wordpress.com\/\">Junction Commons Project website<\/a> and a recent article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbantoronto.ca\/news\/2013\/11\/junction-commons-project-developing-case-community-space\">UrbanToronto<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Together with the Junction Commons Project Community Group, ERA Architects and Urban Metrics are working with the residents of Toronto\u2019s Junction neighbourhood to envision and examine the feasibility of transforming a former police station into a community hub. 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