This creative cultural hub is a prominent neighbourhood feature, its tenants representing a dynamic mix of artistic practices, community services and cultural interests. The large courtyard space in Barn 2 plays regular host to art and craft fairs, community-focused special events and more. Many people know this place through the Stop Community Food Centre's popular farmers' market. (Photo: Ted Chai)

Built in 1888 for industrial use by Gooderham and Worts, the Young Centre for the Performing Arts was adapted and reopened in 2006 as a performing arts facility with much of the original architecture still intact. The Young Centre was envisioned by George Brown College and Soulpepper Theatre Company as a home for Toronto's arts community and theatre lovers.

Youngplace is a community cultural hub in the West Queen West area whose spaces include artists’ studios, a public lounge, café and free public art galleries. Meet some of the tenants in their studios, participate in a material exchange, take a tour of the building and its creative spaces and see how this former schoolhouse has been restored and rejuvenated.

The Experience Centre provides an immersive experience that invites the public to explore the vision for YZD — a historical $30-billion transformation of the former Downsview Airport lands. The centre also provides visitors with an overview of this generational city-building opportunity, which includes seven new neighbourhoods. It looks to welcome more than 55,000 residents and create employment for 23,000 people.

One of Toronto’s only renewable-energy sites open for public tours, the ZooShare Biogas Plant generates enough renewable energy to power 250 homes and businesses. Each year, they use 15,000 tonnes of inedible food waste and 2,000 tonnes of manure from the Toronto Zoo to create biogas, which is converted into electricity. Learn how biogas contributes to a more sustainable future.