Another small step toward waterfront renewal

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Archiseek / Canada / News / 2008 / February 1

Inch by inch, the $17-billion renovation of Toronto's industrial harbour lands continues to roll forward. The process has been painfully slow so far, and nothing seems to happen for long stretches of time. People get understandably frustrated, and are tempted to give up on the whole drawn-out business. Then something does happen. We are abruptly reminded of just how marvellous this vast project really is, and what outstanding minds are at work on Hogtown's harbourfront renewal. Such an event took place last week at Metro Hall, where Waterfront Toronto, the public agency in charge of the whole undertaking, presented to an overflow audience the three competing schemes for a tiny swatch of the 800-hectare tract slated for overhaul. But if the area under development is small - it's a half-hectare rectangle of land adjacent to the Jarvis Slip, across from the water from the Redpath sugar factory - it has attracted the attention of large imaginations in the field of Canadian and international landscape design: the Montreal-based firm of Claude Cormier Landscape Architects, Toronto's Janet Rosenberg and Associates, and a partnership of the Dutch firm West 8 and the Toronto office of du Toit Allsopp Hillier (DTAH).

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