Downsview Complex


The Downsview Complex is a provincial office site located in the Downsview neighbourhood of Toronto.

History

First developed in the 1950s during the construction of Ontario Highway 401 and residential neighbourhood from former farmland, the site is currently the location of the Ministry of Transportation's Toronto office and the Ontario Provincial Police's Downsview detachment. Provincial driving test also takes place there.

Re-development

In 2010, re-development of the site began, in a plan expected to be implemented over a 20-year span.
First to be built was the new location for the province's Ontario Centre of Forensic Sciences and Coroner's office on Wilson Avenue and Morton Shulman Avenue.
Construction also began on a new Humber River Regional Hospital, which would replace two nearby hospitals. The hospital was scheduled to open in October 2015.
Other provincial offices will be built on the site. Many of the older Ministry of Transportation buildings located there will be demolished.
The OPP detachment will remain on the site.
New roads will be built to provide easier access: