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Extending the Waterfront East LRT to Villiers Island
Waterfront Toronto is working closely with the City of Toronto and the TTC to complete the Waterfront Transit Network, linking the Central Waterfront, East Bayfront, West Don Lands, Lower Don Lands and the Port Lands (Ookwemin Minising - formerly Villiers Island). Learn more in this blog.
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Waterfront Toronto and Quayside Impact confirm agreement to develop Quayside
December 9, 2022, Toronto, ON—Waterfront Toronto yesterday approved an agreement with Dream Unlimited Corp. (Dream) and Great Gulf Group, known as Quayside Impact Limited Partnership. Under the terms of the agreement, Quayside Impact (QILP) will develop the 12-acre (4.9 hectare) site at Parliament and Queens Quay known as Quayside, to build much needed housing and new public spaces, all in Canada’s largest all-electric, zero-carbon master-planned community.
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Three Ingredients of Canada’s First Destination Playground
As part of the Port Lands Flood Protection project, there's an opportunity to add a destination playground unlike anything in Canada. In this blog, read about Destination Playground's three ingredients to providing children ways to play that help them develop emotionally and physically.
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Fueling Appetites and Small Businesses with Interim Events
This past summer, we initiated our Interim Use and Events Strategy by inviting Smorgasburg — the largest weekly open-air food market in North America — to activate a parking lot at the foot of Yonge Street. Read about its success.
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Revitalizing Indigenous stories and culture at Waasayishkodenayosh and the Port Lands
As part of the Port Lands Flood Protection project, we collaborated with Indigenous communities and leaders. What we heard: the creation of new parks and open spaces offers the opportunity to showcase Indigenous histories, resilience, and interconnectedness to the natural environment. Learn more in this blog.
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Feeding the City: Reconnecting to our food systems
As we discuss in this blog, urban agriculture means more than just garden plots. It includes interventions as big as a community garden to as small as a community fridge. When stacked up, these strategies can help address some of the most pressing issues faced by cities. Read more about reconnecting to our food systems.
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Read more about how productive landscapes benefit humans and the ecosystems we live in.
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Laying the Foundations for a Sustainable and Resilient Waterfront
This is the second blog in our three-part series about our 2021-22 Integrated Annual Report. In this blog, read more about how we are ensuring the long-term environmental sustainability of revitalization across the waterfront.
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Visionary $25-million gift to create new public art trail on Toronto’s waterfront
A visionary $25 million donation from the Pierre Lassonde Family Foundation will create a new, outdoor public art trail on the future Villiers Island in Toronto’s transformed Port Lands.
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Winning designs revealed for major Indigenous public artworks
Waterfront Toronto today announced the winning artists whose work will be installed at two sites in the West Don Lands of downtown Toronto.
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Creating an Accessible Waterfront
The transformation we have led on the waterfront has always met or exceeded accessibility rules. As always, our goal is to not just follow the rules but lead the way. Read about how we want to enhance our capabilities in accessible design on the waterfront.
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Park honouring Terry Fox secures new Council support
Waterfront Toronto and the Legacy Art Project Toronto (LAPT) celebrated City Council’s decision to help fund this incredible proposal to honour Terry Fox through a public art installation and landscaped park at 439 Queens Quay West.
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Dream Unlimited and Great Gulf Group selected to develop Quayside
Waterfront Toronto will begin negotiations with Dream Unlimited Corp. (Dream) and Great Gulf Group, known as Quayside Impact Limited Partnership, for developing the Quayside site in downtown Toronto.
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Limberlost Place: Leading the Mass-Timber Movement
Limberlost Place is a new building on Toronto’s waterfront that will become one of Ontario’s first institutional mass-timber tall-wood buildings.
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Waterfront Toronto has a new partnership with Akin that creates affordable studio space on the waterfront at Quayside. Activating unused space on a temporary basis will bring many visual artists, designers and creatives to 200 Queens Quay East.
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Indigenous Public Art is coming to the West Don Lands!
We’re planning for two exciting new public art pieces in the West Don Lands, one will be on the triangle of land formed by the intersection of King, Queen and River Streets, and one on the plaza of the future Anishnawbe Health Toronto’s Indigenous Hub on Cherry Street.
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Many post-industrial spaces have been revitalized, and that has meant some buildings along Commissioners are gone. But the Fire Hall at the corner of Commissioners and Cherry Street was preserved. Read this blog to learn how we moved it.
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Health through an Indigenous lens: Understanding Anishnawbe Health Toronto's Indigenous Hub
For thousands of years, the site on which the Anishnawbe Health Toronto (AHT) Indigenous Hub will sit has been an ever-changing landscape.
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Waterfront Toronto announces shortlist of artists for major public Indigenous artworks
Waterfront Toronto today announced the shortlist of Indigenous artists and Indigenous-led artist teams, who will be invited to propose public artworks at two major sites in the West Don Lands of downtown Toronto.
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Arrival of new bridge marks milestone in Port Lands Flood Protection project
Waterfront Toronto, joined by MP Julie Dabrusin, MPP Amarjot Sandhu, Mayor John Tory, and Toronto City Councillor Paula Fletcher, marked the arrival of a colourful new bridge that will become a landmark on Toronto’s skyline, connecting the future Villiers Island to surrounding revitalized Port Lands.
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Looking Back on the First Waterfront Artists in Residence
Take a look back at the many pieces of art, interactive events, exhibitions and installations BSAM Canada, our inaugural Waterfront Artists in Residence produces as part of their 16-month residency.
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Waterfront Toronto Takes Next Step with Quayside Procurement Evaluating RFP Submissions
The Request for Proposals (RFP) stage of the process for the Quayside Development Opportunity has closed. Waterfront Toronto is proceeding with evaluating the submissions and looks forward to sharing the outcome in early 2022.
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Bringing Back the Don - 30 Years of Citizen Advocacy
In 1991, a citizen led Task Force released a report about Don River. It was the start of something big and lead to the Port Lands Flood Protection Project – one of the largest urban waterfront revitalization projects in North America.
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Waterfront Toronto Announces Shortlist of Proponents for the Quayside Development Opportunity
In May 2021, ten compliant submissions for the Quayside Development Opportunity Request for Qualifications (RFQ) were received. Following the evaluation of the ten RFQ submissions received, four Proponent teams were selected to proceed to the Request for Proposals stage.