16 Facts About Toronto waterfront

Toronto waterfront is the lakeshore of Lake Ontario in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The central Toronto waterfront functioned as an important industrial area for many years, providing shipping access to communities from Port Union in the east to Mimico in the west.

West of the Humber River, outside the city limits, the Toronto waterfront has been mainly private lands fronting on the lake.

The railway lands just to the north of the Toronto waterfront now became too valuable to keep industrial and have been converted to other uses, starting with the CN Tower in the 1970s.

Tonnage to the Toronto waterfront Port has declined over the past 50 years, replaced by increases in other modes of transportation.

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Residential condominiums and the large Harbour Castle hotel were built along the water and the Toronto waterfront Star built a new headquarters office building at Yonge Street.

Toronto's bids for the 1996 and 2008 Summer Olympics saw plans for much of the new facilities to be located along the waterfront, with all three levels of government committed to spending a great deal of money if the games were won, but on both attempts Toronto lost its bid due to the lack of diversity in facilities either planned or in situ and, except for further commercial condominium development at Harbourfront offering grandiose views of the water, the waterfront was unchanged.

Etobicoke Creek forms the western border of the city of Toronto dividing it with neighbouring Mississauga, and its portion of the Lake Ontario waterfront.

Notable sights on this part of the Toronto waterfront include the lakeshore campus of Humber College, housed in a historic former asylum, and Humber Bay Park, and large park at the outlet of Mimico Creek.

East of Jameson Ave, the Toronto waterfront area is home to Exhibition Place with Ontario Place just to the south on three artificial islands.

The park's Toronto waterfront area includes Rouge Pond, Rouge Beach, and the mouth of the Rouge River.

Two bridges connect Toronto's waterfront with Pickering, a pedestrian bridge, and a railway bridge.

Waterfront Toronto is overseen by a 13-member government appointed Board of Directors.

The revitalization of Toronto's waterfront is one of the largest urban redevelopment project currently underway in North America with 800 hectares of largely underutilized, derelict land located steps away from Canada's largest financial and cultural urban core.

Waterfront Toronto has an extensive award-winning public consultation program that includes more than 50 public and stakeholder meetings annually.

Toronto waterfront has seen at least 15 design charettes over the last 65 years, the most recent being the Innovative Design Competition for the Central Waterfront that took place in 2006.