Item - 2021.EC23.2

The Economic and Community Development Committee recommends that:

1.  City Council request the Executive Director, Corporate Real Estate Management, in consultation with the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, the Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration, the General Manager, Parks, Forestry and Recreation and the Chief Executive Officer, CreateTO, to enable the lease of St. Patrick's Market for up to five years for its interim activation, including community and cultural services, and recognizing the historic intent that the property host a public food market, to engage local stakeholders for St. Patrick's Market and St. Patrick's Square and the local Ward Councillor and to report to City Council for any necessary permissions and/or leases to activate those spaces.

2.  City Council request the Executive Director, Corporate Real Estate Management, in consultation with the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, the Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration, the General Manager, Parks, Forestry and Recreation and the Chief Executive Officer, CreateTO, to explore opportunities for immediate pop-up uses of St. Patrick's Market and St. Patrick's Square to take place during the summer of 2021.

3.  City Council request the Executive Director, Corporate Real Estate Management and request the Board of Directors of CreateTO to direct the Chief Executive Officer, CreateTO, in collaboration with the Downtown West Interdivisional Working Group, composed of representation from Social Development, Finance and Administration, Children's Services, Parks, Forestry and Recreation, City Planning, Transportation Services, Shelter, Support and Housing Administration, the Housing Secretariat and Economic Development and Culture, to:

a.  lead Phase Two of the Grange Precinct Plan;

b.  retain a design and planning consultant to undertake Phase Two of the Grange Precinct Plan with an overall budget and cash flow of $0.150 million in 2021, fully funded from the 2021 Council Approved Capital Budget for Corporate Real Estate Management under the Strategic Projects - Feasibility 2021 (CCA266-04) project; and

c.  report to the Executive Committee in the second quarter of 2023 on the process and results for Phase Two of the Grange Precinct Plan, including:

1.  community visioning and stakeholder engagement on concepts;

2.  environmental and infrastructure assessment based on the preferred option;

3.  high-level cost estimates of options or the preferred option;

4.  a capital funding strategy; and

5.  recommendations for future implementation.

4.  City Council request the General Manager, Toronto Employment and Social Services, to support COVID-19 pandemic recovery efforts by resuming the Community Navigator Pilot Project for the Alexandra Park and Atkinson Housing Co-operative community that was interrupted by the pandemic and to work in consultation with the Alexandra Park Community Centre to build on the evolving findings of the Pilot Project for long-term sustainable supports, resources and partnerships embedded in the Community Centre.

This report outlines the progress on the workplan for the coordinated Downtown West Service and Facility Review. The Review includes advancements in three areas: (1) use of St. Patrick's Market; (2) planning for the Grange Precinct; and (3) regularizing support for Alexandra Park Community Centre. The Downtown West area is bounded by Bay Street to the east, College Street to the north, Adelaide Street West to the south, and Bathurst Street to the west.

Through the Review, opportunities for service improvements and coordinated planning have been identified by the Downtown West Interdivisional Working Group. This work applies a property intelligence lens to decision-making and long-term asset planning, including accommodating planned service interruptions or changes to achieve service improvements. This work also incorporates and implements City Council directions such as the Downtown Plan - Official Plan Amendment 406 (in force as of June 5, 2019) and its associated infrastructure strategies and those in the Toronto Recovery and Rebuild report. This interdivisional project jointly aligns divisional interests and advances priority projects to enhance the delivery of community services in the Downtown West area.

This report contains a high-level summary of the workplan process approved by City Council in 2019, reviewing the first properties and divisional interests implicated in the response. The report also proposes advancing interim uses at St. Patrick's Market and includes the results of the completion of the Phase One analysis of the Grange Precinct and recommendations regarding regularizing supports to Alexandra Park Community Centre. Finally, in order to advance the work to further review properties and divisional interests within the Grange Precinct area, this report recommends the development of a Phase Two feasibility report for the Grange Precinct. This feasibility report would include extensive community engagement, due diligence and jurisdictional scan of existing properties, project vision, design principles, development of conceptual design and massing analysis, and analysis of costing and recommendations for implementation. Next steps for the workplan are also outlined.