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Find the latest news and articles to stay updated on the projects and partnerships that are making the vision for waterfront transformation a reality.
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Leading with Landscape: A New Way of City-Building
We aim to make every project — from infrastructure to new buildings to parks and promenades — support the wider urban and ecological environment, creating a waterfront that's more than the sum of its parts. Read this final piece of our blog series highlighting key projects and goals from our…
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An Innovative Waterfront That is More Than the Sum of Its Parts
Toronto’s waterfront is gaining a reputation as a dynamic destination where our attention to careful planning, sustainable infrastructure and a high-quality public realm draws employers and innovators. This second of our three-part blog series highlighting key projects in our Rolling Five-Year…
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A Waterfront Landscape Designed for Everyone
Our most recent Rolling Five-Year Strategic Plan 2022/23 - 2026/27 sets out our long-term strategic priorities with a specific focus on the year ahead. This three-part blog series highlights these priorities — public good, jobs and innovation and city-building — beginning with how Waterfront…
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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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Visit us at Sugar Shack TO 2023
We will be at Sugar Shack TO on Saturday, March 11 and Sunday, March 12 for a maple filled weekend full of winter fun. Come get your maple treats and then swing by our tent to try your hand at our ball toss and learn about the future of play.
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New artist-in-residence appointed for Toronto’s waterfront
Waterfront Toronto and the Waterfront BIA are pleased to announce that interdisciplinary artist Lisa Hirmer has been appointed as the waterfront’s next official artist-in-residence. Hirmer’s work critically examines the way that human relationships interact with their surrounding ecologies and asks…
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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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What’s Next for Parliament Slip?
From the peak of marine shipping around the turn of the 20th century, Toronto’s waterfront was studded with a series of ‘slips’, where ships unloaded cargo. Read how the proposed design to transform Parliament Slip will help connect people from across city with the lake and Villiers Island,…
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Climate Resilience: Protection Against Flooding and Extreme Weather
Climate change is already happening. Here’s what we can do to enhance the resilience of waterfront communities in Toronto.
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COP26 and the Importance of Local Action: Green Building Requirements
On October 31, world leaders will meet to negotiate increased carbon reduction targets to keep global warming below 1.5oC. In this blog, we discuss how Waterfront Toronto’s Green Building Requirements provide a local response to this global call to action.
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Love Park: A Love Letter to Resilience
Waterfront Toronto is committed to delivering resilient projects that can adapt to a changing climate and an increase in extreme weather events. From stormwater management to biophilic design, see how this commitment has been translated into the design of Love Park.
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Refinements Coming to Trolley Crescent
In order to improve safety and experience for the variety of users along Trolley Crescent, strategic design refinements are being implemented. These final design refinements to the woonerf were determined using the feedback we received from the public survey issued in December 2020, which also…
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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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Building Connections Towards a Thriving Community
Get to know the co-leads of BSAM Canada, the inaugural Waterfront Artists in Residence, and learn how the program is creating opportunities for artists and helping connect communities with the waterfront.
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A floating installation titled the Peacemaker's Canoe is now on the waterfront! The piece, by Jay Havens, will be on display until September 2021.
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A Home for Innovation in East Bayfront
The Waterfront Innovation Centre—a 485,000 square foot purpose-built innovation workplace— is almost complete. Designed to foster collaboration for its leading-edge tenants in the creative and technology sectors in new and unexpected ways, it is also on-track to achieve LEED Platinum certification.
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Built in the 1920s, Fire Hall 30 was a working fire station until 1980. Many buildings along Commissioners have been demolished, but the Fire Hall is being preserved and we have to move 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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Get to know Ryan Rice, Waterfront Toronto's Indigenous Public Art Curator
In January 2021 Waterfront Toronto announced the selection of Ryan Rice as our Indigenous Public Art curator following an open call to First Nations, Métis or Inuit curators with strong ties to the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
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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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Submissions Signal Toronto’s Strengths as Waterfront Toronto Moves Forward with Quayside Procurement
The Request for Qualifications (RFQ) stage of the process for the Quayside Development Opportunity has closed for submissions, and Waterfront Toronto is proceeding with the evaluation as set out in the RFQ.
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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…
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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.