Neighbourhoods · March 2, 2026 · 5 min read
Liberty Village: a working history
From rail yards and carpet factories to one of Toronto's densest creative districts, how a square kilometre of industrial land became a place businesses fight to be in.
Liberty Village earned its name from the freed prisoners who once walked Liberty Street after release from the jails that stood at its edge. By the late 1800s it had become an engine room of Toronto industry, the Toronto Carpet Factory, the Light Factory and dozens of other works lined the rail corridor.
When manufacturing left, the buildings stayed. Their heavy structures and large floor plates made them ideal for a new kind of tenant: design studios, agencies, tech teams and makers who wanted room to think.
Today the neighbourhood is one of the most concentrated business districts in the country, and Gitalis represents space across its signature buildings, from single studios to full floors in the Light Factory.
What keeps it working is the mix. A coffee roaster next to a software firm next to a furniture gallery. Walkable, dense, and unmistakably itself, the kind of place where your address says something about you.
We believe your space should move you.
Gitalis Real Estate · Est. 1974