Union Station Revitalization Project

Province: Ontario

City/Region: Toronto

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Project Type: Rail

Industry Sector: Transit

Project Amount: $823.7 million

Date of Completion: 2021

Funding Source: Public

Federal Funding: $$164.5 million

Provincial Funding: $191.8 million

Municipal Funding: $467.4 million

Previous Rankings

202158
202060
201962
201861
201760
201661
201562
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About The Project

The revitalization project includes restoration of many of the station’s heritage elements, creation of 160,000 square feet of retail space with the focus of bringing the best of Toronto’s independent retailers and restaurants to the station, and expansion of the GO concourses to accommodate the expected doubling of passengers by 2030. In April 2015, the new spacious 62,000-square-foot York Concourse opened to provide almost twice the space of the existing Bay Concourse to help get customers to where they are going faster and easier. In August 2015, the Bay Concourse was closed to undergo renovation.

Substantial completion has been delayed, and is now expected to occur in 2020.

Financing Detail: The original budget was $640 million, with federal ($164.5 million), provincial ($172 million), and municipal ($303.7 million) investments. In 2014, the budget increased to $796.4 million, and in June 2015, increased to $800.7 million. The budget increase would have been higher, but the city committee approved deferring Phase 2 of the northwest PATH extension to free up $55 million.

Project Owner: Construction Manager: Carillion (Stage 1) and Bondfield Construction (Stage 2/3)

P3 Team Members/Project Team: EXP (train shed roof design and construction admin); NORR Limited Architects & Engineers (structural, mechanical and electrical)

Engineer: Clifford Restoration (building envelope restoration); Wood Group (consulting)

Environmental Services: WSP (Stage 2/3)

Other Key Players: Arup (4D modelling, pedestrian flow, construction coordination analyses); A.W. Hooker Associates (cost management); Entro (wayfinding and signage); Engineering Harmonics (AV consultant); FGMDA (heritage consultant); Golder (construction mat. engineering/testing); Hanscomb (study and design teams’ cost consultant); WSP (geotechnical consultant); Aecon (train shed platform); Aon (risk advisor/broker for preferred proponent); Morrison Hershfield (conceptual study); Comtech (multidisciplinary consulting services)

Financiers & Banks: EY

Consulting Engineers: NORR Limited Architects & Engineers (prime design consultant); DIALOG (executive architect of retail features)

Vehicle Supplier: Canam Group (steel deck); Dufferin Concrete

Other Suppliers: WeirFoulds (acting for architects); Osler

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