Daniels Newsroom Archive

Vidia and Amit Mohammed’s new stacked townhome in Brampton has three bedrooms, a garage and a balcony. But its best feature, Vidia says, is the doorbell that symbolizes the privacy that comes with home ownership.The mother of three children, aged one to 7, recounted her experience at the Daniels Corp. presentation centre in Regent Park on Monday, where the company announced its donation of 10 Toronto region homes to Habitat for Humanity, a non-profit housing agency dedicated to providing lower-income families with stable, affordable home ownership. Five of the Daniels homes have already been turned over to families like the Mohammeds. The remainder will be completed by 2022. They are in addition to 73 homes the company has provided over 23 years. Its contribution is considered equivalent to about $6 million.

Mitchell Cohen writes policy papers and show tunes about affordable housing. He wears a pork pie hat, favors fleece over pinstripes and is easy to tear up when talking about local “empowerment.” He’s also president of The Daniels Corp., one of Canada’s biggest developers.

They show up by the hundreds, hopeful and hungry for information. They leave an hour or so later, fully briefed and ready for their first piece of real estate.This is home ownership, Daniels-style.

Being debt-free is a point of pride for the Mitchell family. Determined to become homeowners, the Toronto couple heard about an afforadable housing program offered by The Daniels Corporation, designed to help families who couldn't otherwise afford home ownership to step onto the property ladder. 

Blues bands in garages, ballet in backyardsand arias in kitchens are a few of the unique amenities to be enjoyed byowners of new condo suites at Artworks Tower, in Regent Park. The events will be staged thanks to apartnership between developer Daniels Corp and Toronto organization Artery ,which brings together artists, performersand culture buffs who want to attendor host small events in everyday spaces. Artworks purchasers will receive a one year membership to the Artery Collection, which will include priority access to events and resident only show cases curated by Artery.

Although small and geared at Regent Park, the Daniels' Communtiy Commerical Program provides more evidence that some Toronto developers are increasingly seeking out alternatives to traditional retail tenants as they seek to populate the podiums of mixed-use towers.

Located on Toronto’s Eastern Bayfront, Hxouse will serve as an incubator and hub for local entrepreneurial artists, from singers and photographers to documentarians and fashion designers. Instead of just a bunch of hot desks, the facility will offer equipment and tools, including recording studios, editing booths, green screens, photography equipment and textile machinery

Property developers are anunpopular species. Hollywood usually portrays them as greedy sharks whomake a living turning poor folkout of their homes to put upshopping malls. Despite this, Toronto is seeing more and more of a new breed - the good-guy developers. The model for this new breed is Mitchell Cohen, president of The Daniels Corp

After years of fruitless searching, Tim and Natalie Rose, a Toronto couple in their early 30s, had all but given up finding a suitable accessible condo in the city. It wasn't until they caught wind of the Accessibility Designed Program from The Daniels Corporation that ended their search. 

The Daniels Corporation is breaking barriers in the housing industry with the launch of the Accessibility Designed Program. By consulting with the AccessAbility Advantage team and Luke Anderson, Daniels has ensured a program destined for success. 

The Daniels Corporation has announced a new project in Scarborough, along with DiamondCorp and the City of Toronto’s Build Toronto agency. Called Daniels FirstHome Markham Sheppard, the development will dedicate 30 per cent of its 328 suites and townhomes to new buyers with a household income below $90,500.

Regent Park was an infamous name in Toronto for decades. These days, the community is recognized internationally as an urban design model that mixes different income and housing levels, integrates nationalities and ethnicities, and blends private and public spaces

The Daniels Corporation generously donated $50,000 to George Brown College’s Centre for Construction and Engineering Technologies (CCET). The donation comprised a $50,000 gift from The Daniels Corporation to establish an endowment, funding in perpetuity the Daniels Leadership in Education Scholarship. The Daniels Leadership in Education Scholarship is open to sole-support students in the Angelo DelZotto School of Construction Management. 

President of The Daniels Corporation, Mitchell Cohen, shares his insight on social procurement and how the power behind this tool can expand beyond local and econmic benefits. An excellent example of what Daniels has stood for since it was founded more than 34 years ago.

"This bubble doesn’t need to burst. A little air can be released, however, through thoughtful policy coordination and timely strategic investment"

Mitchell Cohen, President of The Daniels Corporation, shares his thoughts on the current housing bubble and how we can release the pressure. 

Ontario's new home buyers have spoken! The province's home builders with the best customer service were announced today by Tarion at the 2017 Homeowners' Choice Awards ceremony. These are the only awards that focus solely on customer service and let the buyers decide who should shine.

Still under construction, the 30,000-square-foot space, named Artscape Daniels Launchpad, will overlook Toronto’s harbour from the fourth floor of the Daniels Waterfront-City of the Arts Centre. Its neighbours will be George Brown College and OCAD University’s upcoming Campus for the Connected World. It will focus on providing tools, business training and opportunity to make professional connections for all sorts of artists.

George Brown College announced today an expansion of its Waterfront Campus, to be located in Daniels Waterfront - City of the Arts, just blocks from George Brown's Daphne Cockwell Centre for Health Sciences. The $59-million facility will house part of George Brown's School of Design, including its interdisciplinary design studio, Institute without Boundaries, as well as a new Innovation Exchange focussed on design solutions for the smart economy.

The Daniels Corporation was voted 'Best Condo Developer' in NOW Magazine's 2013, 2015 and 2016 Readers' Choice poll, proving once again our homeowners really do 'love where they live!'

President of The Daniels Corporation, Mitchell Cohen, believes that when faced with disaster, Canadians act. Today, with 'The 20,000 Homes Campaign', Canadians are proving themselves once again by taking immediate action to end homelessness in communities. Discover today why Cohen supports this venture and is sharing the path with many to end chronic homelessness in Canada.

Students at Nelson Mandela Park Public School got a special treat today for their last day of the school year, being the first to experience the new 2.8-acre (1.1-hectare) Regent Park Athletic Grounds.

Chartwell Retirement Residences and The Daniels Corp just broke ground on a 332-unit rental building in revitalized Regent Park—Chartwell's first project of this scale targeting the rapidly growing active-retiree segment.

Chartwell Retirement Residences, Welltower Inc. and The Daniels Corporation have unveiled plans and broken ground for 'The Sumach by Chartwell,' a new urban rental residence for active retired adults located in the revitalized Regent Park neighbourhood in downtown Toronto.

From dog spas to rock climbing walls to play spaces for kids, condo extras are catering to the type of buyer and the development’s area.

In February 2016, a team from the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities (NIMC) visited two mixed-income developments, Regent Park and Rivertowne, in Toronto, Canada.

The finalists for the 2016 Homeowners’ Choice Awards, presented by Tarion, are announced today. These are the only awards that give Ontario’s new home buyers the power to have their new home builder recognized for customer service excellence. 

The Daniels Corporation and Toronto Community Housing are in the thick of Regent Park’s revitalization, undoing past mistakes and creating a vibrant community that mixes uses and social strata.

The urbanization of Mississauga is continuing with the emergence of another stylish, modern high-rise condominium.

A second tower crane is up at Daniels Waterfront, and VP Don Pugh tells us delivery of the 1.32M SF mixed-use community’s commercial space is slated for spring 2018, on schedule thanks to a cooperative winter.

With excavation of the first phase office component progressing swiftly, we continue to learn more details about the mixed-use Daniels Waterfront - City of the Arts, a new development that will enrich Toronto's waterfront with new residential, commercial, and public spaces.

In a city so busy with condo developments, it’s good to see streetside artwork mandated into the mix of private amenities and podium sizes. That’s the case with Daniels’ unveiling of a public art installation in front of its HighPark Condominiums, which sit directly across from the park.

Excavation is underway for Daniels Waterfront - City of the Arts, a master planned community with 1.3M SF of retail, office, residential and cultural space. First up, the commercial component, including the waterfront’s only office-condo. 

Rooftop gardens have become an increasingly common feature in North American cities, as urban planners extol the benefits of more greenery in the concrete jungle. The Daniels Corporation, which builds condos, houses and commercial spaces in the Greater Toronto Area, is behind, among other things, the Erin Mills Backyard Farm & Market in north Toronto, which has been operating for several years on the site of a planned housing community.

Toronto is in the midst of a transformation that will make one of the most livable cities on earth even more attractive.

How often do you get a second encore? On stage, it’s probably a faux pas, but when it comes to new housing developments, it’s always exciting! Especially when the developer is The Daniels Corporation and that encore happens to be the very last opportunity to own in this highly anticipated Mississauga community.

The surprising origins of the musical The Journey: A Living History of the Regent Park Revitalization.

On 1.32 million square feet, the Daniels Waterfront: City of the Arts development aims to revitalize the Queens Quay Waterfront area by creating a multi-purpose, arts-focused centre where people can live, work and play.

The Daniels Corp. unveils new creative centre of gravity with 1.3M-sq.-ft. community for Toronto’s waterfront.

Urban gardens a sought-after amenity in new home and condo communities. 

Daniels Spectrum, the transformative cultural centre at the heart of a regenerated Regent Park community in downtown Toronto, received a Civic Trust Award at a ceremony at The Globe Theatre in London, England.

Toronto Star housing industry roundtable assesses how Ontario’s Places to Grow plan’s push to grow up, not out, has changed how they do business across the Greater Golden Horseshoe.

But where’s the best area to get the biggest bang for your buck? Look no further than Regent Park.

In the urban housing market, one size doesn’t fit all. Recognizing the need for diversified, master-planned communities, The Daniels Corporation has introduced The Bartholomew — its newest collection of condominium suites and condominium townhomes

We have been keeping a close eye on The Daniels Corporation's new condo development on Bloor Street West, across from High Park. The 14-storey, Diamond Schmitt Architects-designed HighPark Condominiums topped off late last year, and since then, the installation of the building's exterior cladding has made significant progress.

Old Rink, New Hope - The Regent Park South Rink is the first of three sport spaces at the MLSE Foundation Regent Park Athletic Grounds.

The Daniels Corp. has deep roots in Erin Mills, the master-planned Mississauga community its founder and CEO John Daniels helped to create in the late 1970s

Condo amenities get centre court focus for The Daniels Corporation! Amenities have a huge influence on the purchasing decision of new condo buyers. With a focus on health and wellness, Daniels includes a widespread variety across our condominiums including basketball courts, squash courts, rock climbing walls, gardening plots and much more.

The political stars are aligned, so it’s time for every one of us to become a champion for affordable housing.

This holiday season Daniels celebrated our very first 'Pay-It-Forward' Day! The Daniels Team took to the streets of our communities giving away free coffees, donuts and muffins to our friends and neighbours across the GTA. It's that's time of year, so what better way to spread holiday cheer than with free treats, smiles, hugs and high fives!

Artists reflecting the community’s diverse talents get exposure and encouragement in Daniels Corp. buildings.

Co-directed with 7 young artists from Regent Park, Spectrum of Hope is a powerful expression of pride in this East-side Toronto neighbourhood currently undergoing a massive revitalization.

The Daniels Corp. returns to master-planned community that company founder helped shape.

There's so much happening at Daniels! Check out this exciting feature from The Toronto Star about our exciting upcoming communities and iniatives. 

Communal gardens, urban mews and a cultural centre will foster a neighbourly lifestyle in the revitalized Regent Park.

As business leaders we have a lot of responsibility. We are, of course, responsible to our partners, shareholders and team members for achieving a bottom line that not only allows us to stay in business, but to grow and prosper.

Rubber insulators, used in Toronto's Four Seasons Centre to keep noise and vibration out of the opera hall, are now being engineered for condos.

Opening of new multi-use facility reveals it to be a practical, flexible space for daily use by complex urban community.

One local family’s life-changing moment as they got the key to their new downtown condo.

The proposed third phase of the Regent Park revitalization will bring new replacement social housing, market condominiums and state-of-the-art sports facilities to the mixed-income downtown neighbourhood, Toronto Community Housing announced today.

Daniels Corp.’s transformation of a struggling, social housing community is winning awards, setting precedents.

Within the Canadian building industry, The Daniels Corporation is leading the urban food revolution through trailblazing initiatives that incorporate urban agriculture opportunities such as gardening plots, greenhouses, edible landscaping and gardening programs into their new home communities across the Greater Toronto Area.

The audience sat rapt. It’s rare to have a story of real estate development told with an R&B accompaniment and the swagger of jazz poetry.

An 80-minute stage show, ‘The Journey (original script and music by Mitchell  Cohen and members of the Regent Park Community), tells stories of the Regent Park revitalization through spoken word narrative, song, film, images and dance. Creative Director, Anne-Marie Woods; Musical Director, Henry Heillig.

To some, High Park in west Toronto is simply an urban oasis of greenery. To others, it’s a village tightly bound by common values. To those who live there, however, it’s a way of life.

At Ryerson University’s Fall 2013 Convocation, Mitchell Cohen, President of The Daniels Corp., was honoured with a Doctorate of Laws Degree. He was one of three distinguished individuals recognized for making outstanding contributions to their fields.

The new park in Regent Park is an ambitious gathering place that covers a sprawling city block. It’s the urban dream come to life.

Maimoona Mehmood and her husband, Syed Ali, have finally bought their first home, and you have to be happy for them and their three children. The Pakistani-born couple moved into their new two-bedroom unit in a Mississauga, Ontario, townhouse development in June, paying $279,000.

Mitchell Cohen, President of The Daniels Corporation has been awarded a Diamond Jubilee Medal at a recent ceremony hosted by the Hon. Bob Rae at the new Daniels Spectrum in Toronto’s Regent Park.

Rosita Bilas arrived in Canada from the Philippines in 1990, and a few years later took up residence in a three-storey public housing apartment in Toronto’s Regent Park, east of the city’s downtown.

How a handful of individuals with a strong vision drove a process of massive transformation that changed an entire Toronto neighbourhood.

Bloor Street across from High Park would seem an obvious place to build a condo: the location offers residents easy access to the subway, good shopping streets nearby, and great views. That's enough motivation to begin land assembly, and in fact that assembly was going on for years as WJ Properties bought homes in the block fronting Bloor between Pacific Avenue and Oakmount Road.

Known for crime, poverty and racial unrest, Toronto’s Regent Park has undergone a major overhaul that integrates all strata of cultural and economic diversity. The plan? To make Canada’s largest social housing project a place where everyone can live.

CityNews reporter Melanie Ng has more on the program that’s making it easier than ever to purchase your own piece of real estate.

Toronto Life’s Reasons to Love Toronto now features everything from popular Toronto personalities to events to places & spaces to social movements.  This issue features a letter from the editor about Regent Park and some of its amazing new amenities.

Developer Mitchell Cohen discovered the Regent Park School of Music quite by accident a few years ago while driving to work along Queen East. The president of Daniels Corp. was in the early stages of planning the ambitious revitalization of the crumbling social housing project – his firm is the builder – when he noticed the school’s sign on a cramped row house near Sackville Avenue.

But if you want to see what the astonishing, ongoing revitalization of one of Toronto’s most diverse neighbourhoods looks like you might want to drop in at the Paintbox one of these nights. Like I said, it’s in Regent Park. I can recommend the cod fritters, the burger and the Ontario Merlot.

Whether they are affluent empty-nesters or a family of modest means, the folks at the Daniels Corp. want all its buyers to “love where they live.”

The Regent Park community took the wraps off its new $38-million arts centre at a public opening last week, attended by some of Toronto’s well known luminaries of the arts and development industries.

The excited voices of kids playing filled an outdoor hockey rink in Regent Park Wednesday – the noise is an indication of what’s to come.

Even before the Paintbox condo is fully finished, it has brought new life to the corner of Dundas and Sackville.

A statement from Martin Blake, Vice President of The Daniels Corporation.

Independent review finds no conflict of interest or favouritism in Regent Park condominium purchases.

What’s happening in Regent Park? Read about the latest events taking place in Regent Park including the unveiling of ‘Regent Park: A Love Poem’, a celebration of local artists, Daniels’ unique work with Dixon Hall Mill Centre, the growing interest in urban agriculture and of course One Park Place.

Toronto Community Housing and The Daniels Corporation are pleased to recognize a significant donation from the Hockey Canada Foundation and the MLSE Team Up Foundation, which will ensure residents of Regent Park have access to the game of hockey for years to come.

The Daniels Corporation has been announced as the winner of the Toronto Arts and Business Award from the Toronto Arts Foundation.

Daniels-commissioned quilt showcases the diverse fabric of the Regent Park community.

Mississauga lacks the patina of age, but if you want art, culture, transit and, yes, space, this is the place to be, Shawn Micallef writes.

The Daniels Corporation is thrilled to announce that we are the recipient of the 2012 Tarion Award of Excellence in the High-Rise Builder of the Year Category!

Artscape is excited to announce a partnership with The Daniels Corporation the City of Toronto on a new 6,000 sq. ft. ground floor performance programming space at the base of the 43-storey condominium development, in the Entertainment District.

Presented by The Daniels Corporation, the exhibit is being held at the penthouse unit on the 45th floor of the Festival Tower. The exhibit, Famous Faces in Exquisite Spaces, features over 90 of Pimentel’s most famous photographs of Hollywood royalty.

We’ve heard a lot of criticism about the Regent Park revitalization in recent weeks. Is it really as troubled as opponents claim? The Star’s Christopher Hume has a look. April 12, 2012.

It is barely 9 o’clock on a damp spring morning and the six computer work stations at Toronto’s tiny Regent Park employment centre are humming with eager job-seekers.

The company charged with redeveloping the inner-city Regent Park neighbourhood is defending its executives' purchases of condominiums in the project, saying they were made to “demonstrate confidence” in the area.

John Tory discusses the work Daniels is doing with the revitalization. Listen to his interview with Daniels’ Vice President Martin Blake and Regent Park resident Sureya Ibrahim on NewsTalk1010.

The Toronto Star “New in Homes” section features a series of articles that highlight The Daniels Corporation as ‘A Builder with a Heart’.