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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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Quayside: From a Proposal to a Development Plan

In June, our partners at Quayside Impact achieved an important milestone, submitting seven planning and development applications to the City of Toronto. These applications provide details on the plans, including proposed density and building heights, building uses, and public realm amenities.

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Importance and Impact: How We Identify Priority ESG Factors and Show Our Progress

In 2023, we updated our materiality assessment to ensure our public reporting focuses on the ESG factors that matter most to our stakeholders. Here are the six areas of high importance where stakeholders believe Waterfront Toronto can make a meaningful difference.

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Shortlisted Proponents for the Keating Channel Pedestrian Bridge

Waterfront Toronto and the City of Toronto in collaboration with the Host Nation and Treaty Holder, the Mississauguas of the Credit First Nation, are pleased to announce the 5 shortlisted teams being invited to propose designs for the Keating Channel Pedestrian Bridge.

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Waterfront Toronto welcomes Jack Winberg as Board Chair

Waterfront Toronto welcomes Jack Winberg as Chair of the Board of Directors commencing July 1, 2023. He brings a range of experience and knowledge to the position following a distinguished career in law, land use, and development.

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Advancing Quayside Through The Planning Approvals Process

Plans for Quayside are going through the planning approvals process before construction starts. What are those approvals and how will they help create a new dynamic, inclusive and resilient waterfront community for thousands of people? Read to find out.

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Love Park Officially Opens on Toronto’s Waterfront

Today, the City of Toronto and Waterfront Toronto officially opened Love Park at 96 Queens Quay West, along Toronto’s waterfront. The new 2-acre park creates a lush urban refuge for surrounding residents, workers and visitors on the waterfront.

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Open House Recap: A Sneak Peek at the Future Eastern Waterfront

From May 11–18, we hosted an open house to share what projects are planned or underway across the eastern waterfront. We were excited to share details about Quayside, Waterfront East Light Rail Transit, the Port Lands and East Bayfront. Here's a recap of the materials presented.

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Accessible Public Spaces Make Better Places for Everyone

We're working to enhance our capabilities in accessible design — to exceed expectations, show leadership and make accessibility another area of true design excellence on the waterfront.

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Creating a Prosperous Waterfront

A new innovation ecosystem is forming on the waterfront as employers, institutions and new residents gravitate to the newly revitalized area. In the final piece of our three-part blog series on our Strategic Plan, we take a closer look at how our work is transforming the way cities are built.

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Bringing Livable Neighbourhoods to Life

Waterfront Toronto was created to bring a holistic perspective to waterfront revitalization. This second of our three-part blog series highlighting key projects in our Strategic Plan focuses on our approach to revitalization.

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Delivering What’s Needed Now

Our most recent Strategic Plan sets out our long-term strategic priorities with a specific focus on what we will achieve this fiscal year. This first blog in a three-part series highlights our commitments and progress delivering on public priorities, beginning with plans to advance urgent projects that are needed now.

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Climate Leadership at Quayside

In this blog we take a closer look at the sustainable and resilient impacts of this forward-looking new community.

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Quayside: The Next Building Block in a Waterfront for Everyone

Earlier this year we began working with Dream and Great Gulf Group (together known as Quayside Impact) to realize our vision for Quayside. This vision has been shaped by thousands of voices. Even though a lot of work has taken place already, Quayside’s story is still being written.

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How artists see the Port Lands project differently

Photographers Vid Ingelevics and Ryan Walker have been taking photos in the Port Lands since 2019. Here’s what they think about this transformational project.

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Something big and ambitious is happening at Quayside

Quayside is an L-shaped area on Toronto’s downtown waterfront about the size of six soccer fields. And in this small space something big and ambitious is happening. Our vision for Quayside reflects years of public input and is a response to how to build a dynamic, inclusive and resilient community. What does this look like? Read more...

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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. 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. 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.

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Feeding the City: Reconnecting to our food systems

Reconnecting to our food systems

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Rewilding the City

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.