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Wigwamen Incorporated

Wigwamen Markham Road - 2024

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Founded in 1972, Wigwamen Incorporated, a non-profit and charitable organization, is Ontario’s oldest and largest urban Indigenous housing provider. SHS was hired to provide development consulting services to Wigwamen for the development of a property located at 525 Markham Road, which they acquired in 2019.

Objective

When purchased, the Markham Road site already housed a 9-storey, 115-unit affordable rental apartment building with commercial retail spaces at grade. Wigwamen’s goal was to create 62 new affordable rental apartments for Indigenous households in Toronto as part of an infill development project to intensify an underutilized portion of the site by constructing a new 6-storey affordable rental apartment building. The project will include an indoor amenity space for community events and programming and an outdoor green roof amenity space.

525 Markham Road is one of a few projects to receive significant funding from the City of Toronto (Open Door Affordable Housing Program) and the Federal government (CMHC Rapid Housing Initiative). It is making a critical contribution to Toronto’s affordable housing goals.

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77 Bloor Street West, Suite 600
Toronto ON
M5S 1M2

77 Bloor Street West, Suite 600
Toronto ON
M5S 1M2

905 763 7555

At SHS we acknowledge the lands we are on are the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples and are now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We also acknowledge that the location of our office in Toronto is covered by Treaty 13. In our work, we strive to continually reflect on our relationship to the land we are currently inhabiting and how our role as actors in the housing system can support the reconciliation process.