Artscape Daniels Launchpad

In development. Artscape Daniels Launchpad—opening in Fall 2018—is more than Toronto’s newest and most exciting collaborative space. It is an idea to create a community where emerging and established artists, designers and creators who believe they are capable of more, can succeed like never before. Its facilities, programs, community and services are tailored to support artists in generating income without compromising their integrity or values. Launchpad members will help reinvent what business is about and generate creative work that makes the world a better place. Artscape Daniels Launchpad is where creativity comes to prosper.

Opened: Fall 2018 (projected)

Pre-occupancy (development) cost: $27.3 million

Former site: Guvernment nightclub

Affordability model: Membership

Building Ownership Detail: Private ownership

Area (square feet): 30,000

Spaces included: See website for details

Tenants: No tenants; membership-driven

Building accessibility: Fully accessible by Ontario standards

Developer: The Daniels Corporation

Design: RAW Design, Rafael + Bigauskas Architects (building); Quadrangle (interiors)

Artscape Daniels Launchpad is based on over a decade of research.

Artscape Daniels Launchpad is named in recognition of the outstanding financial support of The Daniels Corporation and the John and Myrna Daniels Foundation, and WJ Properties. The project has also been made possible in part by the Government of Canada through Canadian Heritage, the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science, TD Bank, and a network of generous philanthropic donors and investors. The programming of Artscape Daniels Launchpad is supported by FedDev Ontario, the Ontario Trillium Foundation, Ontario Media Development Corporation, the City of Toronto through Start Up Here Toronto, the Metcalf Foundation and the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation.