February 6, 2015, Toronto, ON— Waterfront Toronto and Menkes Developments Ltd. (Menkes) are proud to announce the launch of an innovation centre which will bring more than 2,000 employees to Toronto’s waterfront. This cutting-edge workplace represents the next evolution in commercial office development and will reinvent how employees work together in Toronto’s rapidly evolving creative and technology sectors – including advanced visualization and interactive digital media, film and TV production.

February 3, 2015, Toronto, ON— Waterfront Toronto has selected Scott Torrance Landscape Architect Inc. and Thomas Balsley Associates to design Aitken Place Park. Located in the heart of the new Bayside development, Aitken Place Park is the third waterfront park (following Canada’s Sugar Beach and Sherbourne Common) to be built in the emerging East Bayfront neighbourhood.

At the eastern end of East Bayfront, in the heart of the new Bayside development, is Toronto’s next waterfront park – Aitken Place Park. (Image courtesy of Hines and Tridel)

PUBLISHED: FEBRUARY 3, 2015
BY: SAMANTHA GILENO

The Toronto skyline as seen from Snake Island Park (Image credit: Jamie McCaffrey on Flickr)

POSTED: JANUARY 27, 2015 I PARKS AND PUBLIC SPACES, DESIGN
By Meghan Hogan

People flood the streets in Toronto’s Kensington Market during a Pedestrian Sunday event.

In this three-part blog post, we’ll explore a number of factors that contribute to creating vibrant city streets. Part one explored “The Role of Urban Design.” This post explores “Breathing Life Into Our Streets” and the third and final post will explore “Street Art and the Politics of Public Space.”

POSTED: DECEMBER 22, 2014 I PARKS AND PUBLIC SPACES, DESIGN
BY: CHRISTOPHER McKINNON

New York City’s Times Square has a hustling and bustling street life – but it wasn’t always so people-friendly. What does it take to make truly great streets? (Image by chensiyuan, from Wikimedia Commons.)

In this three-part blog post, we’ll explore a number of factors that contribute to creating vibrant city streets. Part one explores “The Role of Urban Design.” Part two explores how we can “Breathe Life Into Our Streets” and part three looks at “Street Art and the Politics of Public Space.”

Community members assemble around models and display boards at Brookfield Place during the Central Waterfront Design Competition.

POSTED: NOVEMBER 10, 2014
BY: MEGHAN HOGAN

Starting last Friday, you may have heard about a new Waterfront Toronto video. If you were at the movies over this past weekend, you might have seen it.

POSTED: NOVEMBER 5, 2014
BY: ANDREW HILTON

Our city is changing. And so is the way that we're telling the story of our waterfront  and the work we're doing to revitalize it.

POSTED: OCTOBER 31, 2014
BY: ANDREW HILTON