Waterfront Toronto is the public advocate and steward of waterfront revitalization, mandated to deliver sustainable, mixed-use communities integrated with parks and open spaces.

PUBLISHED: DECEMBER 8, 2015
BY: ANNA PALAMARCHUK

Toronto, December 7, 2015 - Today, Waterfront Toronto released its latest Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Report. This update to the initial 2012 report quantifies the progress Waterfront Toronto has made in meeting broad environmental, social and economic goals. The report demonstrates how building durable and beautiful spaces contributes to Toronto’s economic competitiveness and the quality of life for its residents.

Accomplishments detailed in the report include:

This new public space initiative will transform the space under an expressway. Here’s how you can help.

PUBLISHED: DECEMBER 2, 2015
BY: CHRISTOPHER MCKINNON

Last week, we announced an exciting new initiative, temporarily named Project: Under Gardiner. It will see a 1.75-kilometre stretch of unused land beneath the Gardiner Expressway, from Strachan Avenue to Spadina Avenue, completely re-imagined as a place for people.

Draped in snow, the water’s edge promenade provides nearly uninterrupted access to parks and public spaces along Toronto’s waterfront. 

POSTED: DECEMBER 1, 2015 
BY: MEGHAN HOGAN

Toronto, November 17, 2015 – Today, the City of Toronto, together with philanthropists Judy and Wil Matthews and Waterfront Toronto announced a $25 million partnership that will create a new public landscape beneath a section of the Gardiner Expressway. In making the announcement, Judy Matthews was joined by Mayor John Tory, Waterfront Toronto CEO John Campbell, Toronto City Councillors Joe Cressy (Ward 20) and Mike Layton (Ward 19) and Lai-King Hum, President of the CityPlace Residents Association.

Corktown Common is just one of the waterfront spaces you can visit this fall.

POSTED: NOVEMBER 9, 2015 
BY: MIRA SHENKER

It’s prime fall foliage season, and there’s no better place to embrace it than the waterfront. Beyond a leafy view along Lake Ontario, there are cultural attractions and events scheduled all season, and some new public art installations to take in. Here are some of the best ways to enjoy the waterfront this fall.

After decades of being cut off from the waterfront, with the opening of Mimico Waterfront Park residents of this Etobicoke neighbourhood finally had access to the lakefront.

POSTED: SEPTEMBER 17, 2015 I PARKS AND PUBLIC SPACES, SUSTAINABILITY, DESIGN, WALKABLE NEIGHBOURHOODS
By Heather Glicksman

New viewing platforms cantilever over the water’s edge to provide great views to both the east and the west of the city’s waterfront. Today we take a look back at one of the early projects that Waterfront Toronto (then known as “Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation”) undertook to improve the water’s edge.

POSTED: AUGUST 27, 2015 I PARKS AND PUBLIC SPACES
By Christopher McKinnon