CreateTO’s Strategic Plan

The City of Toronto's real estate agency, CreateTO, has partnered with Collecdev-Markee Developments to transform City-owned land into a new residential community in Davisville Village, as part of the City’s efforts towards addressing the housing affordability crisis.

The east end of Toronto’s Port Lands is a dusty, feral landscape, thick with wild thistles and growling trucks. One block of Leslie Street houses an aggregate yard, a water treatment plant and a supplier of ready-mix concrete. Last week they got an unlikely neighbour. Leslie Lookout Park, which opened Saturday, is a place like no other.

Leslie Lookout Park, the first major public space in the regenerated Port Lands, officially opened to the public on September 14th. The park, funded and developed by CreateTO and designed by CCxA, is located on the Martin Goodman Trail near the entrance to Tommy Thompson Park at 12 Leslie Street. The park is a new and unique multi-use community destination in the Port Lands that includes forested dunes and an artificial beach connecting the public to the water’s edge with views of the entire length of Toronto’s Ship Channel, and a 13.5-metre lookout tower with a west-facing view of the downtown core and a stunning 360-degree view of the Port Lands. This new destination offers opportunities for year-round programming including pop-up events, concerts and public art.

Amid the concrete towers and piles of soil in Toronto’s Port Lands sits a new park by the lake, marking the city’s latest efforts in bringing greenery to the industrial area as part of a broader revitalization project.