Toronto, March 17, 2011 – Canada’s Sugar Beach and the Martin Goodman Trail improvements at Marilyn Bell Park have received Regional Awards of Excellence from the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA).
September 24, 2010, Toronto, ON – An innovative new park on Toronto’s waterfront that will clean stormwater in its Pavilion and public art installations and release the treated water back into Lake Ontario officially opened today. Sherbourne Common is the third and largest new public space opened by Waterfront Toronto and its government partners since August in Toronto’s downtown waterfront area.
August 27, 2010, Toronto, ON – Toronto City Council has overwhelmingly approved Waterfront Toronto’s selection of premier international real estate firm Hines to develop a prominent waterfront site minutes from downtown. The sale and lease agreements for the city-owned parcel were brought to City Council on the recommendation of Waterfront Toronto following a competitive two-stage bidding process.
August 19, 2010, Toronto, ON— Following an extensive competitive selection process, Waterfront Toronto has chosen Hines, one of the world’s premier real estate firms, to develop Toronto’s next great waterfront neighbourhood.
August 9, 2010, Toronto, ON— Two inviting and exciting public spaces officially opened today in part of Toronto’s downtown waterfront that was until now mostly derelict industrial land that few people had visited. Canada’s Sugar Beach and the Water’s Edge Promenade (phase one) are unique new urban spaces that have transformed a lakefront parking lot and underused area into waterfront attractions.
June 8, 2010, Toronto, ON— While the official opening of Canada’s Sugar Beach is not slated until August 9, Torontonians are already enjoying the park’s sandy beach, candy-striped rocks and water views.
June 23, 2010, Toronto, ON— Toronto and East York Community Council has approved Sherbourne Common as the new name for East Bayfront’s signature waterfront park. The new name, submitted by Doug Dent, was the winner of a month-and-a-half long naming contest which invited members of the public to submit their ideas for a new park name and to vote for their favourites online.
June 16, 2010, Toronto, ON— Sherbourne Common has been selected as the new name for East Bayfront’s signature waterfront park following a city-wide naming contest which invited members of the public to submit their ideas for a new park name and to vote for their favourites online. The new name, which incorporates the park’s location with the idea of ‘the commons’ where park spaces belong to the people, must now be approved by Toronto and East York Community Council on June 22.
June 9, 2010, Toronto, ON — The final round of voting in the Rename Sherbourne Park Contest is now underway. Until June 15, the public may vote for one of three, top ranked park names chosen by the more than 1,500 people who voted during the contest’s first round of voting. The name with the most number of votes will ultimately become the new name of the park.
The final three park names for public voting at www.torontoist.com/park are:
May 31, 2010, Toronto, ON — The public is one step closer to choosing a new name for Sherbourne Park – an innovative new waterfront park opening this summer. From now until June 8, the public can review and rank their favourite park names from a shortlist culled from the more than five hundred submissions received during the first phase of the contest.
The “Rename Sherbourne Park” contest was launched on April 26 by Waterfront Toronto and online news website Torontoist.