incommon Projects
Building community through
thoughtful, family-scale residential development
ABOUT INCOMMON
Incommon Projects was founded in 2018 with an eye to address Toronto’s need for imaginative missing middle development.
The company is focused on bringing a new breed of small-scale, multi-family housing solutions into established, downtown Toronto neighbourhoods.
Gentle densification. Sensitive intensification. With a combined 50 years of experience in real estate, development, and city-building initiatives, Incommon seeks to add to the urban fabric through carefully considered, innovative residential development.
Mission
Diversify the housing mix currently available in the city through building community-focused, small-scale development projects. Incommon believes in low impact infill housing that makes more efficient use of our finite urban resources.
Vision
A new housing typology in downtown Toronto: family-sized, multi-unit, intimate buildings. Shared space. Private space. Living together in the city in a new kind of way.
Why Incommon is an important part of the solution
Toronto’s housing crisis is at this point well documented. The city – like many in the world – needs new housing options in order to satisfy continuously growing demand. An important part of the answer is to make more efficient and intense use of existing resources. In the case of Toronto, this includes both its wealth of single family homes and its sparsely populated residential neighbourhoods. Enter Incommon: an important part of the solution.
We were recently featured in The Globe and Mail!
Featured Project
44 Wilson Park Road is a seven unit multi-family building situated on a picturesque Parkdale street in downtown Toronto. Slated for completion in 2025, this project is a model that we plan to iterate throughout the city.
How We Work
Find the Spot
Incommon builds in mature, downtown Toronto neighbourhoods. Multicultural neighbourhoods; dynamic neighbourhoods; family neighbourhoods. The kinds of places that make Toronto the unique and treasured city that it is.
Design it
We design our buildings to be the homes we all want to live in: gracious, spacious, thoughtful and built to last. Nothing show-offy. Considering impact every step of the way. Doing everything we can to blend in and enhance the neighbourhoods we join.
Build it
Incommon oversees all aspects of the development process, including the construction of our buildings. We strive for passive-house principles in all of our building decisions and ensure our projects are ones we can stand behind for years to come.
Incommon Partners
Friends since their twenties, Brian and Matthew each hold a deep passion for the city. Born and raised in downtown Toronto, they have shared in adventures in real estate going back three decades. Incommon Projects is the culmination of both of their careers spent building, learning, and living in the city.
Brian Torry
Brian has been involved in the residential real estate industry in Toronto for more than 25 years. His experience includes an award-winning sales career, brokerage management and senior industry leadership positions as well as the opportunity to start and run a service-focused property management company for individual landlords and corporate clients.
With a wide range of industry experience Brian is an active participant in organized real estate and has been a director for the Toronto Real Estate Board (TRREB) for the past five years. Along with work in governance and government relations, Brian is a past Chair of Arbitration and Professional Standards for TRREB.
Brian and his wife Linda have raised three kids in Roncesvalles Village for the past 20 years and while he is still active in many aspects of the real estate industry, he has now turned his attention towards building Incommon.
Brian has been intimately involved in the residential real estate industry in Toronto for 22 years. His experience includes an award winning sales career, brokerage management and senior industry leadership positions as well as the opportunity to start and run a service-focused property management company for individual landlords and corporate clients.
With a wide range of industry experience Brian is an active participant in organized real estate and has been a director for the Toronto Real Estate Board (TRREB) for the past five years. Along with work in governance and government relations, Brian is also a past Chair of Arbitration and Professional Standards for TRREB.
Matthew Cohen
Matthew has been building and designing in the residential, commercial and not-for-profit sectors for 25 years. He has a knack for getting involved in interesting city building opportunities, including Evergreen Brick Works and the design and build the Centre for Social Innovation in New York City.
Such projects led Matthew to start his NYC-based design firm Matthew Cohen Design Collective, specializing in bespoke, sustainable design and build projects with a socially progressive client-base. In 2016 MCDC was recognized for building 2 of the top 10 new office spaces in North America by notable and archilovers.
Matthew and his family moved back to Toronto in 2017 and he continued to work on projects in both in New York and Toronto. He is now focussed primarily on Incommon, which he co-founded with Brian in 2018.
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