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Developers Dream and Great Gulf, known together as Quayside Impact, are working with Waterfront Toronto and some of the world’s leading architects and designers to build a Quayside, a sustainable new community on Toronto’s Waterfront. Quayside will mark the beginning of a new approach to city-building, with its success measured in its human and environmental impacts, and its outcomes focused on improving quality of life for its residents, workers and visitors. It will be guided by robust public engagement, which has shaped both the evolving ambitions for Quayside and the broader transformation of the waterfront. 

Quayside will be a complete, inclusive community, including purpose-built affordable and market rentals, condominiums, recreation, green space, community services and easy access to the necessities of daily life. At its heart, Quayside will be a community that welcomes everyone, places sustainability at its core, and offers a vibrant and energetic experience in a beautiful setting. 

Affordable Housing

Addressing an urgent need for affordable housing, Quayside will deliver 800+ affordable rental housing units upon completion of both phases, with more than half the units being family-sized (2+ bedroom) with 550 + affordable units planned in the Affordable Rental Housing / Purpose Built Rental phase of development, so that these units can be delivered faster. 

Public Realm

Quayside will feature a 1.5 acres of community forest, designed as a space for recreation, relaxation, and community programming within the Affordable Rental Housing / Purpose Built Rental phase.

Community

Strong social and workforce benefits will advance employment, business and capacity-building opportunities for Indigenous people and equity-deserving communities.

A Community Hub will offer programs and services to support residents and will include a 62 space daycare.

Sustainability

Quayside will be targeting CaGBC’s Zero Carbon Building Design Standard V3 which requires achieving, at a minimum, the CaGBC’s embodied carbon intensity target. Quayside will be a zero-fossil fuel, zero-carbon certified, and energy-efficient community designed to be resilient and adaptive to a changing climate while supporting the transition to a circular economy.

World Class Architecture

Five iconic buildings designed by Alison Brooks, Henning-Larsen, Allies & Morrison and Teeple Architects will provide world-class architecture and create a visually striking focal point on Toronto’s waterfront. Future buildings at Quayside will be the subject of global architectural competitions to attract the best ideas and talents from around the world.

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Quayside’s development is guided by the following principles that set a shared attitude towards the design of the community, the public realm and the iconic architecture.

COHESIVE DIVERSITY

The plans for Quayside will be shaped through collaboration, creating a new neighbourhood that reflects the layered character and richness of places shaped over time. Designs will be varied but connected, providing world-class architecture across all scales, balancing bold, iconic moments with, self-expression and shared values. 

LIVING WITH NATURE

At Quayside, sustainability will be prioritized, with the City of Toronto’s existing standards not only met but exceeded and ingrained into every aspect of the plan. The design will foster a symbiotic relationship with the environment by creating a low-carbon community that supports biodiversity and inspires healthier and more sustainable choices.

INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN

Our design supports inclusivity through an accessible public realm and programs that foster a complete community. At Quayside we will partner with institutions and community groups that share our commitment to diversity and social advancement, ensuring the neighbourhood reflects and welcomes everyone.

THE CONNECTOR

Quayside will sit at the hinge-point where the city connects with the waterfront. Leveraging this unique position, we’re creating vibrant networks of mid-block privately owned public spaces, interwoven with lively streets along Parliament and Queens Quay East to create a dynamic new destination. 

A COMMUNITY AND A DESTINATION

Quayside will be home to those who live here and a destination for visitors from across the city and beyond. With fluid indoor–outdoor spaces, diverse programming, and year-round public places, it will foster connection, creativity, and community at every scale.

WATERFRONT REVITALIZATION

WATERFRONT REVITALIZATION

Waterfront Toronto is working to create a vibrant, connected waterfront that belongs to everyone. As city-builders, Waterfront Toronto cares about delivering neighbourhoods, parks, destinations and infrastructure that make people’s lives better. In 2001, Waterfront Toronto was created by the governments of Canada and Ontario and the City of Toronto to catalyze public and private investment on the waterfront, transforming past industrial sites into thriving neighbourhoods that support economic vitality and enhance quality of life. For more than two decades, it has consistently challenged the status quo when bringing new waterfront communities to life. Each of its developments contribute to its vision for the waterfront and each contributes to the overall draw towards the water’s edge. Waterfront Toronto’s aspirations for Quayside build on this momentum and were shaped by years of experience in building new waterfront spaces, and by extensive public input.

INDIGENOUS PARTICIPATION COMMITMENT

For thousands of years, the Toronto waterfront has been a gathering place shared by many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, and is home to many First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples today. Quayside is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation (MCFN) and, as such, we will engage with MCFN as the rightsholders and work closely to ensure the interests of First Nations and Indigenous Peoples are incorporated into our plan. We are committed to learning from Indigenous Peoples and drawings on Indigenous cultures, values, and traditional knowledge as we work to develop Quayside as a place where people will live in harmony with the land, water and natural environment. In the spirit of Truth and Reconciliation, we are also committed to building economic opportunities and employment for Indigenous Peoples through our investment in Quayside and will work directly with the MCFN to ensure these opportunities are realized.