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Short History of the West Don Lands COLOUR PAGE CRBA SERVING YOUR COMMUNITY FROM BERKELEY STREET TO www.corktown.ca THE DON RIVER, SHUTER STREET TO LAKESHORE BOULEVARD SUMMER EDITION 2016 01 The Coffee Shop Tour 04 Playing Tourist at Home 05 For the Next Generation 08 West Don Lands 06»PICTURED: Future? 10 NEW IN CORKTOWN Short History of the West Don Lands By: Cynthia Wilkey, Co-Chair, West Don Lands Committee, Past Director - CRBA Just look at what has been created so far in the 80 acre West Don Lands site: » Corktown Common » Underpass Park » River City » the newly opened Canary District » George Brown College Student Residence » Cooper Koo YMCA » Affordable rental housing operated by Toronto Community Housing Corporation, Fred Victor and Wigwamen » the Front Street promenade » public art installations and » the new 514 streetcar line It is astonishing to recall that, in 1997, the Province almost made the monumental mistake of selling half of the WDL to a harness racing consortium! A WHOLE NEW VIEW OF TORONTO That move, justified by the short-term photos courtesy: Spencer Wynn desire to raise money for provincial coffers during a time of economic downturn, would have deprived Toronto Eggleton announced the expropriation River floodplain, and a steep recession- a harness racing and video lottery and Corktown of an internationally of 80 acres of mainly derelict land for driven drop in real estate prices. facility, it galvanized Corktown and its recognized example of master planning the development of a new mixed-use neighbours. At the CRBA’s initiative, a and brownfields revitalization. neighbourhood. The project was given In 1995, the lands passed to the Province coalition of community-based resident, the name Ataratiri and planning began, and in 1996 were declared surplus and business, environmental, heritage and The journey started in 1988, when only to be cancelled in 1993 because of put on the market. When news leaked social service organizations Premier David Peterson and Mayor Art environmental cleanup costs, the Don out in 1997 about a potential sale for CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 100% LOCALLY GROWN REALTORS FIND SOCRATES APALLAS AT 56 BERKELEY STREET. LIVINGTORONTO.CA | 647.206.4408 FRESH. LOCAL. REAL ESTATE. www.corktown.ca 02 SUMMER EDITION 2016 HISTORY OF THE WEST DON LANDS CONTINUED agency representatives and political for dealing with flood protection and representatives. The workshop produced soil remediation. Toronto was bidding came together as the West Don Lands a strong endorsement for the creation for the 2008 Olympics and identified The Corktown News Committee (WDLC) to fight the of a sustainable, mixed-use, mixed- the WDL as a potential site for a media development. Fortunately, the harness income development that would knit village, prompting the Province to CIRCULATION racing proposal fell off the table, but the the WDL back into the surrounding take the lands off the market. Most Delivered: Quarterly lands stayed on the market. communities. Included in the vision importantly, to support the Olympic Circulation: 6000 copies was the creation of a regional park and Bid, the “three amigos” Jean Chretien, Advertise: [email protected] While the WDLC was initially reactive, better connections to the Don River. The Mike Harris and Mel Lastman Editor: [email protected] it quickly became proactive. The consensus also identified the need for announced the creation of a Waterfront member organizations were united in the public sector to take responsibility Task Force led by Robert Fung, which WHAT’S UP IN CORKTOWN? wanting to see positive development for initiating flood protection and was asked to develop a business case for The Corktown Residents & in the WDL and took on the challenge environmental management strategies, a waterfront development agency. Business Association is a not-for- profit and non-commercial volunteer of building consensus that it had more which were seen as the biggest obstacles neighbourhood organization. potential than a race track type use. to revitalization. Although the Olympic bid was not We follow the latest developments in In 1999, the WDLC hosted a 3-day successful, The Fung report led to Corktown on a wide range of topics community planning workshop that The timing was auspicious, David the creation of Waterfront Toronto and serve as a liaison between brought together community members, Crombie’s Waterfront Regeneration – the tripartite agency with a 20- Corktown, the City and other key developers, design professionals, Trust had recently completed a report year mandate to revitalize Toronto’s organizations. environmentalists, heritage experts, proposing new and less costly strategies waterfront. The West Don Lands The CRBA is an inclusive organization Committee had been one of the first open to all local residents and businesses. Join us and add your groups to present to the Fung Task voice to the community discussion! Force and when Waterfront Toronto was website: www.corktown.ca created, development of the WDL and email: [email protected] flood protection of the mouth of the Facebook: CorktownTO Don River became priority projects. Twitter: @CorktownTO This ended the uncertainty about the NEXT CRBA MEETINGS West Don Lands future. Waterfront July & August no meetings Toronto launched into intensive Join your neighbours at 7PM on the first Tuesday of most months to find consultations to develop the award out what’s happening. winning precinct plan for the WDL. The Toronto & Region Conservation Check www.corktown.ca for location, agendas and other details. LOOKING UP Authority was tasked with developing a flood protection strategy. Urban design photos courtesy: Spencer Wynn CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 KELLY PORTER HETU PC REAL ESTATE CLASSIFIEDS Chartered Professional Accountants, LPA Real estate classi eds are brought to you by local Realtor Socrates Apallas. 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Prices and availability sub�ect to change. Not intended to solicit proper�es or people already under contract. 416 955 0060 | kellyporterhetu.com www.corktown.ca SUMMER EDITION 2016 03 guidelines, a public realm plan, a public The economic crisis of 2008 intervened art strategy and consultations for the just as Waterfront Toronto’s strategy design of Corktown Common and was shifting from the public realm to Message to the Underpass Park followed over the next private sector investment. Aside from few years. More information is available the first sale to Urban Capital, builder of at www.waterfrontoronto.ca the River City project along Lower River residents of the Street, the global crisis brought the private sector strategy to a halt. The Corktown community When the possibility of hosting West Don Lands has every reason to be the 2015 Pan/Parapan Am Games By Pam McConnell, Deputy Mayor and City Councillor, Ward 28 proud of what has been emerged, it had strong support from the West Don Lands Committee. An achieved in the West Don Athletes’ Village was a good fit with I am pleased to join with community facilities, and the incredible Lands. The reality has met the WDL precinct plan and offered the the rest of your Corktown centrepiece of Corktown Common and exceeded the vision opportunity to accelerate development are the framework for a vibrant identified by the community while the market was stalled. Working neighbours to welcome neighbourhood. within Waterfront Toronto’s precinct in 1999. you to Toronto’s newest plan and development guidelines, The results were never preordained. Infrastructure Ontario oversaw a neighbourhood. It was the strong advocacy of the procurement process, won by the communities living around what were DundeeKilmer partnership, that built As I attended the planting of the 41 then orphaned lands that fended off Thanks to the funds committed by the Village using some of Canada’s top commemorative trees on the Front uses such as a racetrack and supported three orders of government, Waterfront architects. The George Brown College Street Promenade before the start of the leadership of Waterfront Toronto Toronto was able to use a strategy of residence, YMCA and the two affordable the Pan Am Games, I experienced a to complete a plan that arose from the leading the revitalization process rental housing buildings are a direct sense of wonder at how much this area community.
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