Ontario’s Minister of the Environment, John Gerretsen, has cleared the way for the revitalization of Queens Quay Boulevard to proceed. This formally concludes the planning and approval process for the Queens Quay Revitalization Environmental Assessment undertaken by Waterfront Toronto and the City of Toronto.
Waterfront Toronto may now proceed with the transformation of Queens Quay from [...]
The votes are in and ‘Waterfront Development’ was named a semi-finalist in Torontoist’s Heroes and Villains of 2009 competition. Launched by popular website Torontoist in late December, the contest asked readers to vote for the very best and worst people, places and things in Toronto during 2009. The ‘Waterfront Development’ category, which featured a wonderful [...]
Aerial view of Parkside
Great Gulf Group to develop remarkable Moshe Safdie-designed building
Toronto, December 7, 2009 – Toronto City Council has overwhelmingly approved the sale of a parcel of waterfront land to the Great Gulf Group of Companies for the first private sector development in the emerging East Bayfront neighbourhood. The agreements for the Parkside site [...]
Toronto, December 7, 2009 – Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA) has been selected to lead the transformation of a key waterfront site based in part on their innovative proposal to design an underground parking garage that is an enticing part of the urban experience rather than a grim, unwelcoming and disorienting piece of infrastructure.
Selected from [...]
Toronto, November 30, 2009 – Following a competitive two-stage bidding process, Waterfront Toronto has selected prominent Toronto real estate developer Great Gulf Group of Companies to lead the first private sector development in the emerging East Bayfront neighbourhood. The agreement, which includes the sale of the Parkside development site, is now before Toronto City [...]
Toronto, October 1, 2009 – Toronto City Council has overwhelmingly approved Waterfront Toronto’s recommendation to transform Queens Quay into a grand lakefront boulevard by replacing two lanes of traffic on the south side of the street with a beautiful linear park. The recommendation stemmed from a two-year long Environmental Assessment (EA) process for Queens Quay [...]
Toronto, June 12, 2009 – Waterfront Toronto, together with the Government of Canada, Province of Ontario and City of Toronto, officially opened the Simcoe WaveDeck, the second and most dramatic urban dock being built along Toronto’s central waterfront.
The Simcoe WaveDeck, one of four uniquely Canadian wavedecks planned for the area, is as artistic as it [...]
Toronto, May 5 – Waterfront Toronto’s Spadina WaveDeck has received another prestigious design award, this time from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). The Spadina WaveDeck earned a 2009 Honor Award from the ASLA in its General Design category and was one of two Toronto waterfront projects honoured this year.
Each year, the ASLA [...]
Toronto, March 25, 2009 – After comprehensive study, Waterfront Toronto is recommending that remaking Queens Quay into a grand lakefront boulevard featuring streetcar lanes in the centre, traffic only on the north side and a pedestrian focused space on the south side is the recommended option for transforming the waterfront’s main road.
Waterfront Toronto will officially [...]
Toronto, January 07 – Waterfront Toronto’s Spadina WaveDeck has been nominated for a prestigious 2009 Brit Insurance Design Award in the category of architecture and is the first Canadian project ever to be short-listed for the awards.
The Brit Insurance Design Awards are the Design Museum of London’s annual exploration of the most innovative and forward-looking [...]
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