Watch the Toronto waterfront area grow!
If you’re lucky enough to own a piece of downtown Toronto real estate, you can just sit back and watch the waterfront area grow.
A Waterfront Toronto conceptual drawing of Queens Quay, looking east.
Toronto’s new Sugar Beach is just one part of the city’s waterfront revitalization projects. Plenty of thought has gone into it: Pink umbrellas, imported sugar-like sand and well-thought out landscaping.
However, next to Sugar Beach and marring the picturesque landscape is a boxy, uninspired building – the Corus Entertainment headquarters, a generic green glass office building. While the design is sustainable, it doesn’t quite suit the beachy atmosphere. Locals have been quite critical of the area’s architecture and the fact that it already has the whole no swimming thing going for it, being completely fenced in from the water itself. It’s not a place where Toronto residents can beat the heat unless they want to head towards the giant fountain. Still, the area used to be a parking lot.
Sugar beach is the second urban beach in the city. The Queen’s Quay streetcar line still needs to be extended to get the average biped there, but if you’re on a bike you can get there relatively easily. It’s just one more element in Toronto’s growth as a waterfront destination.
Along with selecting Hines as the real estate company to develop the next great Toronto neighbourhood, Waterfront Toronto has several projects on the go including the Lower Don Lands, the West Don Lands, East Bayfront, Port Lands, the Central Waterfront and the Gardiner area.
Those curious about the waterfront projects can check out the Waterfront Toronto website, which has a listing of projects that are underdevelopment, in the planning stages and recently completed.
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Comments
I’m glad you spoke out about the obtrusive Chorus building. The crazy location of that water park across on the north side of Queens quay is wrong, the park is supposed to be waterline situate. The sale of that parcel to a developer could have brought several mill$ to the city in my estimates. Making Queens Quay into a corridor of tall buildings is not a good plan. How-ever, a graduated approach from the waterline northward is a better way. I have mapped out a better waterfront plan to be revealed soon, wish me luck, swimming holes included.