Waterfront Toronto is an organization that oversees revitalization projects along the Toronto waterfront. Established in 2001 as a public–public partnership between the City of Toronto, Province of Ontario and Government of Canada, 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 entities, primarily private corporations. The projects include a series of wavedeck walkways and gathering places designed by West 8 and DTAH.
The Simcoe wavedeck on Toronto's waterfront
The Toronto waterfront is the lakeshore of Lake Ontario in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It spans 46 kilometres between the mouth of Etobicoke Creek in the west and the Rouge River in the east.
View of Toronto's waterfront and Downtown Toronto from the Toronto Islands.
Elevated portions of Toronto's waterfront, like the Scarborough Bluffs, made up the shorelines of Lake Iroquois, a glacial lake that preceded Lake Ontario.
Cannon emplacement at Fort York, located close to where Toronto's original shoreline was. Due to land reclamation projects in the late-19th to early-20th century, the original shoreline is now located inland.
Construction of the Gardiner Expressway in the 1963. The highway substantially changed the western portion of the waterfront.
