Waterfront Toronto

Waterfront Toronto (sometimes styled as WATERFRONToronto), is an organization administering revitalization projects along the Toronto waterfront in Canada. Formed as a partnership of three levels of Canadian government in 2001, the organization is administering several blocks of land redevelopment projects surrounding Toronto Harbour and various other initiatives to promote the revitalization of the area, including public transit, housing developments, brownfield rehabilitation, possible removal of the Gardiner Expressway in the area, the Martin Goodman Trail and lakeshore improvements and naturalization of the Don River. Actual development of the projects is done by other agencies, primarily private corporations. The projects include a series of wavedeck walkways and gathering places designed by West 8 and DTAH.

The 'Waterfront Revitalization Task Force', a task force of the City of Toronto, the Government of Canada and the Province of Ontario was established in November 1999 to study the future of the Toronto waterfront. The task force, headed by financier Robert Fung, reported in March 2000. It estimated the total cost of revitalization at $5 billion in public investment and a further $7 billion in private sector investment. It proposed the following general recommendations for the Toronto waterfront:

Source: Our Toronto Waterfront: Gateway to the New Canada (PDF). City of Toronto. 2000. p. 4. 

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