Designing a new community above Toronto's rail corridor
Toronto Rail Yards will bring nearly 4,000 new homes, more than two acres of public green space, and transit access to one of the city's most underused sites.
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Michael Sørensen
Global Market Director
A new six-acre deck atop downtown Toronto's active railway is the foundation for a complete mixed-use neighbourhood. Led by the LiUNA Pension Fund of Central and Eastern Canada and Fengate Asset Management, the project will deliver housing, offices, retail, childcare, and more than two acres of urban park space, with direct access to Toronto's rail network.
"The design of Toronto Rail Yards is rooted in the neighbourhood — creating a new urban environment for daily community life, shaped around how people will arrive, gather, and feel connected to the city and to one another. The scale, materiality, and microclimate of its welcoming spaces will make Toronto Rail Yards a place with a genuine sense of belonging at its core."
Michael Sørensen
Global Market Director
Building above active rail infrastructure at this scale is something Toronto has not seen before. The creation of new land above a functioning rail corridor makes Toronto Rail Yards one of the most technically complex urban developments in the city, and a significant opportunity to add housing and public space at a time when it’s needed most.
At the centre of the neighbourhood will be a new urban park, designed as a community destination: a place for daily life, with shaded rest areas, cycling and pedestrian paths, programming space for markets and events, and active ground-floor retail locations. More than two acres of green space in the heart of downtown, accessible to residents and the wider city alike.
By concentrating housing, employment, and amenities directly above high-frequency transit, Toronto Rail Yards reduces car dependency by design. The project is designed to support the City of Toronto's climate goals by 2040.
Site preparation is anticipated to begin in 2028, with construction to follow later in the year.
Toronto Rail Yards is led by LiUNA Pension Fund of Central and Eastern Canada in partnership with Fengate Asset Management. Henning Larsen serves as international design leader alongside Hines, PCL, WW+P Architects, and RJC Engineers.
