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How We Design Flexible Streets
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Merchants’ Wharf is designed to be easily closed to vehicular traffic. Here’s how that increases public access to the waterfront.
Creating Extraordinary Public Spaces
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Beautiful, inviting and vibrant parks and green spaces are essential to the transformation of the waterfront and remain among the priorities that matter most to our stakeholders. Read how we continue
Waterfront Toronto Takes Action to Reconnect City to its Lake
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March 8, 2021, Toronto, ON - Toronto’s waterfront has never been busier and in Toronto’s harbour, it is clear that better access to the water is a priority for the city’s health and future. Today
PlayPark: The Playground Reinvented
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The heart of the new riverside park system in the Port Lands will be the 3-acre PlayPark. It will sit at the heart of a new park along the relocated and restored Don River mouth.
Governments Invest to Rapidly Build Housing, Create Jobs and New Destinations on Toronto’s Waterfront
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January 28, 2025, TORONTO, ON – Today the Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario and the City of Toronto announced $975 million to accelerate the delivery of Waterfront Toronto’s
6 FAQs about Villiers Island
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We’re working with the City of Toronto and Create TO to update density and massing plans for Ookwemin Minising (formerly Villiers Island) to accommodate more housing, including affordable housing.
How to Move a 1920s Fire Hall
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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
Toronto’s New Island is Ready to Launch
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Toronto has a new island where the Don River meets Lake Ontario. Surrounded by a winding river and overlooking the downtown skyline, Toronto’s new island is a place like no other. Ookwemin Minising
Largest Park in a Generation Opens on City of Toronto’s New Island through Transformative Port Lands Flood Protection Project
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July 18, 2025, TORONTO – Today, we welcomed hundreds of visitors to Toronto’s newest island, Ookwemin Minising, to celebrate the opening of the island’s marquee attraction, Biidaasige Park. This event
Larger-Than-Life Wildlife Coming to the Port Lands
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As we get closer to completing the new mouth for the Don River in the Port Lands, work is underway on new parks that will line the river valley. Opening in Summer 2025, these will be places where