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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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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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Toronto Loves the New Cherry Street Bridge!

The new yellow bridge on Cherry Street made a splash when it opened to the public in October 2022.

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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…

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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.

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Winning designs revealed for major Indigenous public artworks

Waterfront Toronto today announced the winning artists whose work will be installed at two sites in the West Don Lands of downtown Toronto.

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Creating an Accessible Waterfront

The transformation we have led on the waterfront has always met or exceeded accessibility rules. As always, our goal is to not just follow the rules but lead the way. Read about how we want to enhance our capabilities in accessible design on the waterfront.

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Park honouring Terry Fox secures new Council support

Waterfront Toronto and the Legacy Art Project Toronto (LAPT) celebrated City Council’s decision to help fund this incredible proposal to honour Terry Fox through a public art installation and landscaped park at 439 Queens Quay West.

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Dream Unlimited and Great Gulf Group selected to develop Quayside

Waterfront Toronto will begin negotiations with Dream Unlimited Corp. (Dream) and Great Gulf Group, known as Quayside Impact Limited Partnership, for developing the Quayside site in downtown Toronto.

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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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The Art of the Possible

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.