Waterfront Toronto

‼️ YOU’RE INVITED: We’re designing new streets on Ookwemin Minising (formerly Villiers Island) in the Port Lands and we want your help! Join us, @waterfront.to , @cityofto , and your fellow community members for a public workshop on the evening of May 20th. We’ll present our latest designs and bring you right into the process with us. We want to hear how you want to move around these new streets, what would make you live in or visit Ookwemin Minising, and what other ideas or examples you’d like to share with us! RSVPs required - link in bio to sign up and secure your spot!

Have your say on the future of Ookwemin Minising! ⬇️ Join us on May 20 at the Penthouse at T3 Bayside to learn more about the plans and share your input with the project team. - May 20, 2026 - 6–9 p.m. - Penthouse, 10th floor, T3 Bayside (251 Queen Quay East) - RSVP required – link in bio

What are your thoughts? 🌱👀💭 Let us know at our FREE public workshop! 🙌 Check out our latest designs, talk with our staff, and join a hands-on workshop to design the future streets and public spaces at Ookwemin Minising! 😎✨ 📆 May 20th, 2026 ⏰ 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM 📍 Waterfront Toronto (T3 Bayside) 251 Queens Quay East, 10th Floor ‼️RSVP Required - Link 🔗 in Bio! #toronto #urbanplanning #ookweminminising

From long term planning to a real world pilot. Here’s a quick download of how we got here: Swipe →

Unfinished Arch is designed for participation. Built to respond to touch, the Arch is only complete when you interact with it. By putting accessibility at the centre of the experience, Unfinished Arch's interactive features reflect how we are shaping public spaces with everyone in mind. As construction continues, work is now underway on the accessible pathway connecting Water’s Edge Promenade to the Arch, making connection and accessibility a core part of this thoughtful design.

This June, a new way to move along the waterfront arrives. Operated by York Bay Marine Services, the East–West Water Shuttle will connect three stops: Portland Slip (near the Island Airport), Yonge Street Slip, and Ookwemin Minising / Biidaasige Park. More to come on this new initiative. Stay tuned.

…And we want to hear from you! 😎✨ Join us on May 20th at the Penthouse at T3 Bayside (251 Queen Quay East) for a chance to learn more about the plans for Ookwemin Minising! 🏝️ 📅 May 20th, 2026 ⏰ 6-9pm 📍Penthouse, 10th floor, at T3 Bayside (251 Queen Quay East) 🙌RSVP Required - Link in Bio! We’re excited to talk soon, Toronto! 🫶

A new landmark is continuing to take shape on Toronto’s waterfront. Week by week, Unfinished Arch has emerged at Sherbourne Common, built with the same care and rigour as the waterfront itself. As part of Waterfront Toronto’s Public Art Program, this permanent artwork is being designed to animate public space and become a destination for people to gather, experience, and connect. This is city‑building in progress.

This summer, Global Convenience by Toronto‑based artists Trevor Wheatley and Cosmo Dean arrives in Harbour Square Park Basin as a familiar yet unexpected sight: a floating artwork shaped like a neighbourhood convenience store. Inspired by corner stores across Toronto and around the world, the piece reflects on everyday rituals, arrival and exchange, and the small spaces where cultures meet. As Toronto gears up to welcome people from across the globe for FIFA World Cup, Global Convenience celebrates the ordinary moments that connect us. Illuminated at night with solar‑powered lighting, the artwork will bring a warm, recognizable presence to the waterfront. Stay tuned for more details.

Centre Commons is imagined as an everyday civic place—an urban living room at the heart of Ookwemin Minising. Designed as a green pedestrian space, it’s where daily life unfolds: kids learning to ride bikes, neighbours stopping to chat, pop ups and markets, all woven into nature. Learn more about the new design project by clicking the link in bio.

Inspired by the historic sandbar, the Sandbar Trail will run along Ookwemin Street, carrying Indigenous history and presence into the streetscape. Learn more about the new design concept by clicking the link in bio.

This video explores the vision for Centre Commons as a green, pedestrian space running across the island. Centre Commons will be at the heart of the neighbourhood, an everyday civic space and urban living room — it's where kids learn to bike, caregivers chat while children play, and community pop-ups and markets take root. The result is a street defined by community, inviting reflection on how we name, share, and care for the places where daily life happens. About the project: We’re working on the fundamentals needed to develop new housing on this new island created through flood protection, called Ookwemin Minising. Design for the public spaces, streets, stormwater and sanitary pipes, and utility ducts that support the building of new homes started in summer 2025. Our international design team is integrating design for streets and public spaces with a review of the density and built form on the island. About the design team: Led by a partnership of global professional services company GHD and global design studio SLA, the team includes Allies and Morrison (Architecture and Urban Design firm), Trophic Design (an Indigenous-owned landscape architecture firm), Transsolar (an international climate engineering firm), accessible design consultants Level Playing Field, with community outreach and public engagement led by Monumental Projects and Indigenous Engagement led by Trina Moyan and Shak Gobert. ➡️ Click the link in bio for the the descriptive text and project information in YouTube video description.