Archive for the ‘Queens Quay’ Category

Waterfront Toronto is replacing the sanitary sewer along Jarvis Street and Queens Quay Boulevard and twinning the existing sewer along the Esplanade.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Toronto, September 12, 2008 – Waterfront Toronto, together with the Government of Canada, Province of Ontario and City of Toronto, officially opened the Spadina WaveDeck, the first of a series of spectacular new public spaces being built along Toronto’s central waterfront. Located at the foot of Spadina Avenue, the 630 square-metre wooden wavedeck offers Torontonians [...]