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New Home:

Where:

When:

  • Construction began February 2005
  • Estimated move in date, March 2006

What:

  • New home for Sojourn House’s shelter, programs and offices with new transitional housing.

The Building:

  • 9 storey, fully accessible building
  • 50 shelter beds in 18 dwelling rooms
  • 52 transitional housing apartments
  • Provides shelter and housing for approximately 160 refugees
  • Outdoor residential recreation space and garden
  • Children’s outdoor playground
  • Kitchen, residential dining room, and building manager office on main floor
  • Office and program facilities on 2nd floor
  • Laundry facilities on 2nd  floor
  • Indoor amenity spaces on each residential floor
  • Shelter on 2nd and 3rd floors
  • Transitional housing apartments on 4th – 7th floors
  • Roof top terrace, laundry, lounge and storage on 8th floor

The Details:

  • Lot size:  926.9 SQ.M.
  • Building Coverage:  598.3 SQ.M.
  • Building Size:  4,352.0 SQ.M.
  • Building Height:  26 meters
  • Total indoor residential amenity space:  266.75 SQ.M.
  • Total outdoor residential amenity space:  272.0 SQ.M.
  • 7 parking spots + 1 car garage
  • Residential Bicycle Parking spaces:  32

Visitors Bicycle Parking spaces:

  • 8