Two sites in the Downtown core have already been selected to participate in the pilot project
By Bulletin Staff –
The environment and residents in Toronto’s thousand, decades-old concrete slab apartment towers will be the beneficiaries of Mayor’s Tower Renewal, an ambitious new project unveiled by Mayor David Miller.
“Mayor’s Tower Renewal will bring building upgrades, community reinvestment and greening initiatives, which will foster vibrant communities, and significantly reduce greenhouse gases throughout any city,” said Mayor Miller. “It will also place new expectations of complete and sustainable communities upon our neighbourhoods, and will provide a variety of tools to create positive change.
Mayor’s Tower Renewal focuses on delivering social, economic, cultural and environmental benefits by renewing concrete high-rise residential towers. Built in the 1960s and 1970s, concrete slab construction towers are found in cities around the world – from Chongqing to Chicago – with about 1,000 located in Toronto.”
In addition to the Toronto initiative, Mayor Miller, as chair of the C40 Group of large cities fighting climate change, is asking member mayors to adopt and adapt the principles and objectives of the program in and for their cities.
“We know that 80 per cent of the world’s population lives in cities,” said Mayor Miller. “Working together cities can bring about real, tangible reductions in greenhouse gases that benefit all.”