Work is about to begin on Portland Slip, part of what will shortly become a system of promenades that will allow people to walk the entire waterfront.
"The promenade itself will look very similar to the Water's Edge Promenade at Sherbourne Common," says JD Reeves, a project manager with
Waterfront Toronto. "This is one more piece in the master plan that will eventually have a continuous promenade from the airport area to the east through East Bayfront."
The bits of the system are being constructed in a fashion Reeves describes as opportunistic—
Portland Slip is going ahead now because the city was redoing the dock wall beside the malting silos. So though Portland Slip doesn't hook up with Water's Edge yet, it does open up the promenade system to include
Ireland Park, a previously orphaned space that Waterfront Toronto is now confident will get a lot more foot traffic.
Work should be finished by fall, with tree planting to commence next spring.
Writer: Bert Archer
Sources: JD Reeves, Simon Karam
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