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New Infrastructure Kick-Starts the Revitalization of Key Waterfront Site
TORONTO, Aug. 28, 2012 /CNW/ - In a dual celebration, Waterfront Toronto, Harbourfront Centre and our government partners, officially opened the York Quay underground parking facility and broke ground on a new landscape that is converting an asphalt parking lot into dynamic new public space.
The revitalization of York Quay is a multi-phased project that is transforming about a third of Harbourfront Centre's 10 acre site into an even more vibrant waterfront destination. In early 2011, construction began on the new 300-stall underground parking garage designed to replace the surface parking lot between Queens Quay and the water's edge. By moving the parking lot underground, the surface area was opened up for the creation of new public space
With the garage now open, construction is underway on a series of public spaces by renowned landscape architects Michael Van Valkenburgh and Associates (MVVA). The design for the 1.4 hectare site includes three components: Canada Square, an impressive plaza space overlooking Lake Ontario; Ontario Square, a large public plaza facing Queens Quay; and Cultural Village, a future, low-scale development area with shops, cafes, restaurants, artist studios and architect offices that will feature temporary landscaping until it is realized
MVVA's design brings nature into the plazas in an unconventional way. Canada Square will become a vertical garden featuring 44 majestic Redwood trees. Ontario Square, which features several stands of Ontario Aspen trees, creates a series of miniature forests around the plaza and atop the underground garage's entrance.
More......http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/102...rts-the-revitalization-of-key-waterfront-site
$100K a parking spot: Toronto breaks ground and the bank near waterfront
The beaming politicians assembled for the obligatory “groundbreaking†photo at what will soon be new public space, where a parking lot once stood, along Toronto’s waterfront on Tuesday.
Construction is well under way on Canada Square and Ontario Square, which will open next spring beside Harbourfront Centre, at the foot of York Street. Officials also heralded the completion of an underground parking garage at the same spot, a cause for celebration in downtown Toronto where surface lots are being gobbled up by condo towers.
But with a price tag of $25-million for 300 spots — and a three-storey glass sculpture by architect and designer James Carpenter that will reach above the surface and refract light to the bowels below — the new lot highlights another little discussed cost to waterfront redevelopment: parking.
More....http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/0...o-breaks-ground-and-the-bank-near-waterfront/
Groundbreaking ceremony for multi-million dollar York-Quay revitalization.....http://www.globaltoronto.com/ground...ork-quay+revitalization/6442704408/story.html
New Infrastructure Kick-Starts the Revitalization of Key Waterfront Site
TORONTO, Aug. 28, 2012 /CNW/ - In a dual celebration, Waterfront Toronto, Harbourfront Centre and our government partners, officially opened the York Quay underground parking facility and broke ground on a new landscape that is converting an asphalt parking lot into dynamic new public space.
The revitalization of York Quay is a multi-phased project that is transforming about a third of Harbourfront Centre's 10 acre site into an even more vibrant waterfront destination. In early 2011, construction began on the new 300-stall underground parking garage designed to replace the surface parking lot between Queens Quay and the water's edge. By moving the parking lot underground, the surface area was opened up for the creation of new public space
With the garage now open, construction is underway on a series of public spaces by renowned landscape architects Michael Van Valkenburgh and Associates (MVVA). The design for the 1.4 hectare site includes three components: Canada Square, an impressive plaza space overlooking Lake Ontario; Ontario Square, a large public plaza facing Queens Quay; and Cultural Village, a future, low-scale development area with shops, cafes, restaurants, artist studios and architect offices that will feature temporary landscaping until it is realized
MVVA's design brings nature into the plazas in an unconventional way. Canada Square will become a vertical garden featuring 44 majestic Redwood trees. Ontario Square, which features several stands of Ontario Aspen trees, creates a series of miniature forests around the plaza and atop the underground garage's entrance.
More......http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/102...rts-the-revitalization-of-key-waterfront-site
$100K a parking spot: Toronto breaks ground and the bank near waterfront
The beaming politicians assembled for the obligatory “groundbreaking†photo at what will soon be new public space, where a parking lot once stood, along Toronto’s waterfront on Tuesday.
Construction is well under way on Canada Square and Ontario Square, which will open next spring beside Harbourfront Centre, at the foot of York Street. Officials also heralded the completion of an underground parking garage at the same spot, a cause for celebration in downtown Toronto where surface lots are being gobbled up by condo towers.
But with a price tag of $25-million for 300 spots — and a three-storey glass sculpture by architect and designer James Carpenter that will reach above the surface and refract light to the bowels below — the new lot highlights another little discussed cost to waterfront redevelopment: parking.
More....http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/0...o-breaks-ground-and-the-bank-near-waterfront/
Groundbreaking ceremony for multi-million dollar York-Quay revitalization.....http://www.globaltoronto.com/ground...ork-quay+revitalization/6442704408/story.html
