POSTED: AUGUST 6, 2014
BY: JONATHAN LASKI
Waterfront Toronto together with the TTC and the City of Toronto began an Environmental Assessment (EA) in March 2006 to determine the appropriate transit facilities for East Bayfront and future waterfront communities in the Port Lands. The study, which was designed to analyze the long term residential, employment, tourism and waterfront access needs for the area, began as an Individual EA for the entire eastern waterfront and was converted to a Class EA process specific to East Bayfront transit in October 2007.
Queens Quay is the main east-west thoroughfare along the waterfront and as such, it will be the "main street" for the new East Bayfront community.
Corus Quay, the new corporate headquarters for Corus Entertainment, is a 46,500 square metre (500,000 square foot) office and broadcast centre located at the water’s edge in East Bayfront.
The iconic building was developed by the Toronto Port Lands Company (TPLC) formerly TEDCO, the City of Toronto’s Economic Development Corporation, and is owned by H&R REIT.
Monde Condominiums (formerly the Parkside development) located north of Queens Quay, just east of Sherbourne Common, was the first private sector development in East Bayfront. Developed by Great Gulf and designed by world-renowned architect Moshe Safdie.
POSTED: JULY 8, 2014
BY: MEGHAN HOGAN
Canada’s Sugar Beach has been in the news lately, held up as an extravagance and a park created without oversight. All of this is untrue – in fact, Sugar Beach is an excellent example of what Waterfront Toronto was created to do, which is create great parks and public spaces to spur the development of new communities and give the water's edge back to the public. (Image courtesy of Claude Cormier + Associés)
POSTED: JUNE 24, 2014
BY: ANDREW HILTON