Toronto Star

First the good news; Toronto will have a new beach at the foot of Jarvis St. Now the bad news; Toronto will have a beach at the foot of Jarvis St. Everyone loves a beach, of course, but what a strange place to put one – next to a corporate head office, just across the slip from the Redpath Sugar refinery. Imagine lying in the sand under a hot sun, unable to go into the water but watching ocean-going tankers unload 50 metres away. No doubt it will be an interesting experience, if not exactly appealing. But such was the decision reached yesterday by a jury on behalf of the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corp, now known as Waterfront Toronto. The body chose a submission from leading Montreal landscape architect Claude Cormier, called, for obvious reasons, Sugar Beach. The scheme also includes a paved plaza punctuated by trees, and a promenade that extends through the site.