As
recently reported by Yonge Street, work has now begun on the Athletes Village for the Pan Parapan American Games on the waterfront. The project is as much an employment story as it it a develoopment story. The construction, handled by
EllisDon, will create 700 direct jobs, according to Infrastructure Ontario's Mandy Downes.
"Currently there are already 50 workers onsite," Downes says, "carpenters, engineers, supervisors and security. At the peak of construction, the project will employ 700 in construction." Those are just some of the 5,200 jobs the Ministry of Finance estimates the project will "create and support" directly and indirectly.
The Athletes Village will transform part of the waterfront, adding more than a thousand new residential units as well as a streetcar line and a
residence for George Brown College after the games in 2015.
Writer: Edward Keenan
Source: Mandy Downes, Infrastructure Ontario