August 7, 2012, Toronto, ON—On Wednesday, August 8, 2012,  Waterfront Toronto and the City of Toronto along with landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh and project staff held a briefing to update media on the Port Lands Acceleration Initiative.

October 12, 2011, Toronto, ON—Waterfront Toronto’s Lower Don Lands Framework Plan/Keating Channel Precinct Plan has won a 2011 Excellence in Planning Award from the Ontario Professional Planners Institute (OPPI).

July 9, 2010, Toronto, ON – Toronto City Council has endorsed the award winning plans to transform the Lower Don Lands and renaturalize the mouth of the Don River.  

July 5, 2010, Toronto, ON - The award winning vision to transform the Lower Don Lands and renaturalize the mouth of the Don River may soon be official and binding.

Toronto, June 16, 2009 –Waterfront Toronto’s Lower Don Lands plans have received the 'Best Futuristic Design Award’ in one of the world’s leading sustainability focused development industry design competitions.

The Keating Channel Precinct, the Lower Don Lands’ first planned community, was recognized in Hamburg Germany at the Building Exchange (BEX) Conference.

May 19, 2009 – (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) – Waterfront Toronto’s Lower Don Lands development was announced today as one among 16 founding projects of the Climate Positive Development Program, a Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) program that will support the development of large-scale urban projects that demonstrate cities can grow in ways that are “climate positive.” Climate Positive real estate developments will strive to reduce the amount of on-site CO2 emissions to below zero.