Designer And City Have High Hopes For Toronto Waterfront Park

"New York-based landscape architect James Corner is overseeing the creation of the ambitious 965-acre Lake Ontario Park. Breaking ground this year, it will tie 37 kilometres of shoreline land, from Cherry Beach to Ashbridges Bay (including the Leslie Street Spit), into a new public area with room for all sorts of recreational and conservational uses."

"Mr. Corner is focused on maintaining a balance between environmental preservation, recreation and urban character for Lake Ontario Park. 'The idea is to create something spectacular that capitalizes on the attributes the site already has: its bigness, its exposure to the weather, this sort of wild thematic,' Mr. Corner explains."