In a little more than a decade, Regent Park has been transformed from an aging, crime-plagued social housing project to one of Toronto’s most popular places to live.
Once socially and physically isolated with few stores, Regent Park in the downtown east is now a vibrant mixed-used neighbourhood, with new residential condominiums, retail shops, coffee shops, fast food restaurants, and outfitted with new amenities such as an aquatic centre, athletic grounds, a six-acre park and the Daniels Spectrum, a thriving community cultural hub. It’s a rich, multicultural neighbourhood, where 57 different languages are spoken. Asians are among the ethnic groups that call Regent Park home.