Notes from today's project email update:
We’re now officially The Bentway. Visit our new website!
Back in June, we announced that
The Bentway was the clear winner of the
run-off vote in our city-wide Project: Under Gardiner naming campaign. It’s a name that celebrates "the bents" – the column-and-beam structures that frame the spaces of what will soon become a vibrant urban trail. Today, we launch our new website. Come check it out at
thebentway.ca.
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What’s next?
Over the summer months and into the fall, our team advanced along many parallel tracks. We established
The Bentway Conservancy, a new not-for-profit organization that will take over the reins of the project. We are now finalizing the design and working toward securing all the approvals required to begin construction later this fall. We’ll build out The Bentway with a series of phased openings in 2017 and 2018. In the coming weeks, we’ll have more important updates, but, for now, you’ll want to read this blog post from urban design lead Ken Greenberg, as we look toward the work ahead.