SoHo (Old Victoria Hospital Lands)

346 South Street, London, ON
Key Facts
Living Units
138 units
Media Contact
Julie Ryan jryan@indwell.ca
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Vision SoHo is an alliance formed between six non-profit housing developers to collectively and expediently address London’s housing crisis by creating beautifully designed, environmentally friendly, and well-managed buildings. These developments will range in affordability—some being market rate and others at affordable and deeply affordable rates—and will offer a variety of unit types catering to single individuals, couples as well as families. Over 680 units will be created in total. The focus area for the development is the Old Victoria Hospital Lands. The Vision SoHo Alliance closed on the land in the fall 2022, and began construction in 2023.

Indwell is a founding member of the Vision SoHo Alliance. We will create and operate 138 units of deeply affordable housing with supports in two heritage buildings.

Indwell is eager to take on restoring the two heritage buildings on the site: the Health Services Building and the War Memorial Children’s Hospital. They are beautiful buildings with important and rich ties to our city’s history. The two buildings will be retrofitted to create 138 new apartments, 96 at the Health Services Building and 42 at the Children’s Hospital. The Health Services Building will include a community space in the Auditorium offering food security and other amenities to the entire development and SoHo neighbourhood.

In 2023, we celebrated reaching our goal of $3 million from the community for the War Memorial Children’s Hospital. Remediation work is complete, and construction begins this summer. The building will open in 2026.

We now turn our focus to the Health Services Building. Our community fundraising goal is $5 million, and we already well on our way! You can donate to this campaign by using the link below.

Thank you to the London community for your generosity, and to the City of London and Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation for building on community dollars to get these buildings open.

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For more information, visit visionsoho.ca

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