On July 10, Waterfront Toronto and its development partners in the West Don Lands – River City’s Urban Capital and the Canary District’s Dundee Kilmer – are throwing a community picnic at Corktown Common, and you’re invited!

POSTED: JULY 4, 2014

River City cuts a striking figure in the West Don Lands. The recently completed first phase of the condominium has received a PUG Award for Outstanding Achievement in Architecture and Design. (Image credit: Saucier + Perrotte Architectes, courtesy of the PUG Awards)

POSTED: JUNE 20, 2014
BY: TARI STORK

Splash pads are a fun way for families to cool off and beat the heat on the waterfront this summer. 

POSTED: JUNE 13, 2014
BY: MEGHAN HOGAN

It’s not just good for the environment – riding public transit, walking or cycling to work saves money and makes you healthier.

POSTED: JUNE 10, 2014
BY: CHRISTOPHER MCKINNON

POSTED: MAY 30, 2014
BY: ANDREW GOODYEAR – SENIOR DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, TORONTO COMMUNITY HOUSING

Public art plays an important role in creating the character of a city’s places and spaces – and the cultural, social and economic benefits of public art are real. The public art master plan for Toronto’s new West Don Lands neighbourhood is ensuring that all those benefits are integrated from the start. 

POSTED: MAY 21, 2014
BY: CHRISTOPHER MCKINNON

Collecting and analyzing a building's energy consumption data will help us make better decisions about how to build and manage greener, more energy-efficient buildings. 

POSTED: MAY 21, 2014
BY: JONATHAN LASKI

Buildings are responsible for a majority of our energy use and a majority of our greenhouse gas emissions in developed parts of the world. In the City of Toronto, for example, residential, commercial and industrial buildings accounted for 61% of greenhouse gas emissions in 2007.

April 8, 2014, Toronto, ON—Waterfront Toronto has awarded a contract to Canadian artists Scott Eunson and Marianne Lovink and work is now underway to create a new work of public art for the intersection of Sumach Street and Eastern Avenue in Toronto’s West Don Lands neighbourhood.

The proposed public art project for the intersection of Sumach Street and Eastern Avenue will fuse the history of the site – from the end of the last Ice Age to the present day – through a unique kind of visual storytelling.

POSTED: APRIL 7, 2014
BY: CHRISTOPHER MCKINNON

March 5, 2014, Toronto, ON—  There have been many questions recently about Toronto’s waterfront and how it is being transformed – now and in the future – from industrial lands into dynamic new mixed-use neighbourhoods anchored by spectacular parks and public spaces.