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A lot has changed on the waterfront. Areas along Queens Quay have been deindustrialized and are a mix of commercial and residential. Revitalization of the easte

A lot has changed on the waterfront. Areas along Queens Quay have been deindustrialized and are a mix of commercial and residential. Revitalization of the eastern sections of the waterfront has only started more recently with the Lower Don Lands [1] project. The old Unilever factory near the waterfront is also slated for redevelopment. [2] The water quality has also improved to the point where it's safe to swim in the water [3] and the beaches meet the blue flag criteria for the last few years [4, 5]. 1: http://urbantoronto.ca/database/projects/lower-don-lands-redevelopment http://urbantoronto.ca/database/projects/lower-don-lands-red... 2: http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2016/11/preliminary-plans-reveal-scope-unilever-redevelopment http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2016/11/preliminary-plans-reveal... 3: http://app.toronto.ca/tpha/beaches.html http://app.toronto.ca/tpha/beaches.html 4: https://environmentaldefence.ca/blue-flag/ https://environmentaldefence.ca/blue-flag/ 5: https://www.toronto.ca/health/swimsafe/beaches_blueflag.htm https://www.toronto.ca/health/swimsafe/beaches_blueflag.htm

sonnyblarney 8y ago
Those are great points, but mostly municipal, not organic or community oriented. Toronto is very civic, the busses run, it 'has everything', it's 'safe', the cops are ok, etc etc.. But communities are organic, you can't just invent them out of nowhere, or construct them. To boot - the waterfront is rather close to a massive highway, and downtown traffic etc. - tough place to do something from scratch.
- microcolonel 8y ago
  > To boot - the waterfront is rather close to a massive highway, and downtown traffic etc. - tough place to do something from scratch. Granted, having lived directly overlooking said freeway, I can tell you that it is so structurally unsound that I can't imagine it standing for many more years. The supports and roadway are literally falling off in chunks.

sonnyblarney 8y ago

Those are great points, but mostly municipal, not organic or community oriented. Toronto is very civic, the busses run, it 'has everything', it's 'safe', the cops are ok, etc etc.. But communities are organic, you can't just invent them out of nowhere, or construct them. To boot - the waterfront is rather close to a massive highway, and downtown traffic etc. - tough place to do something from scratch.

microcolonel 8y ago
> To boot - the waterfront is rather close to a massive highway, and downtown traffic etc. - tough place to do something from scratch. Granted, having lived directly overlooking said freeway, I can tell you that it is so structurally unsound that I can't imagine it standing for many more years. The supports and roadway are literally falling off in chunks.