i-Zone Lofts
A 1929 bottle-cap factory on Carlaw Avenue, subdivided into small work studios in the 1990s and converted to live-work condominium lofts at the turn of the 2000s.
Overview & history
This is often called a former Coca-Cola plant of the 1960s. It went up in 1929 for Crown Cork & Seal, which made bottle caps here until the company left in the 1960s. In 1996 the engineer Gyan Jain filled it with cheap work units for artists, then converted it to a live-work condominium in 2002.
Units are live-work and vary sharply in shape. Ceilings run from about 16 feet to 30 in the double- and triple-height spaces under the roof. Reported sizes vary widely by source, from around 400 square feet upward.
Timeline
The factory is built for Crown Cork & Seal Co. Ltd to manufacture bottle caps.
Crown Cork & Seal leaves for a new plant on Keele Street in north Toronto.
Engineer Gyan Jain buys the building and subdivides it into hundreds of small, low-cost work units.
Building facts
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