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Project Details
- Type
- Parks & Open Spaces, Environmental Sustainability, and Waterfront
- Ward
- Toronto-Danforth
- Councillor
- Paula Fletcher
- Current Phase
- Delivery and Construction
- Current Use
- Industrial Site
- Major Intersection
- Leslie Street and Unwin Avenue
- Site Area
- 2 acres
- Proposed Use
- Parks and Open Spaces
- Surrounding Use
- Industrial uses to the north and to the east, the Turning Basin and The Hearn to the west and Tommy Thompson Park and Lake Ontario to the south
- Type
- Parks & Open Spaces, Environmental Sustainability, and Waterfront
- Ward
- Toronto-Danforth
- Councillor
- Paula Fletcher
- Current Phase
- Delivery and Construction
- Current Use
- Industrial Site
- Major Intersection
- Leslie Street and Unwin Avenue
- Site Area
- 2 acres
- Proposed Use
- Parks and Open Spaces
- Surrounding Use
- Industrial uses to the north and to the east, the Turning Basin and The Hearn to the west and Tommy Thompson Park and Lake Ontario to the south
Project Overview
Leslie Lookout Park Opening Celebration
Join us on September 14 with the City of Toronto and our project partners to celebrate the official opening of Leslie Lookout Park!
12 pm - 3 pm
A community celebration with a DJ, face painting, sand sculpting, and activities provided by the City’s Play Mobile.
Leslie Lookout Park will be a new destination in Toronto’s Port Lands located on the Martin Goodman Trail at the entrance to Tommy Thompson Park. The park will include a public beach, distinguished by forested dunes that will create a new multi-use community destination in Toronto’s east end.
The centrepiece of Leslie Lookout Park will be a 1.9 acre open space at 12 Leslie Street that will connect the public to the water’s edge with views of the entire length of the Ship Channel. The open space will include a viewing platform that will provide the public with dramatic views of the Toronto skyline.
The park recycles an industrial landscape into a new recreational hub. The beach and grassy dunes topography provides opportunities for ecological restoration, reforestation, and naturalization. This new destination will offer opportunities for year-round programming, including pop-up events, concerts and public art, as well as a unique lookout experience with a west-facing view of the downtown core, and a stunning 360 degree view of the Port Lands. CCxA was awarded the contract to design and construct the park through a design competition. The firm is known to have designed some of the most memorable public spaces in Toronto, including Sugar Beach and Berczy Park.
In March 2023, a mural depicting the Great Anishinaabe Migration, created by Indigenous artist and architectural designer Dani Kastelein-Longlade of Brook McIlroy, was installed on the construction hoarding surrounding the site. The artwork depicted on this mural interprets the path of travel through the seven sites of the chi-bi-moo-day-win’, the Great Anishinaabe Migration and is part of Brook McIlroy’s Indigenous placemaking strategy for the park. It will be on display at 12 Leslie Street until the park opening and then relocated to a yet-to-be-determined site in the Port Lands for a further 18 months.
Media Gallery
Project Materials
Resources
- Overview - Planning in the Port Lands(Opens in a new window)
- Article: Toronto is getting a new park along the waterfront with a beach and viewing platform(Opens in a new window)
- Leslie Lookout Park Rendering Video(Opens in a new window)
- Final Report - Port Lands Planning Initiatives(Opens in a new window)
Community Engagement
Project News
Project UpdatesNovember 23, 2023Toronto’s newest park is turning an industrial landscape into a recreational hub(Opens in a new window)Project UpdatesNovember 23, 2023Located about five kilometres southeast of Toronto’s downtown core is the Port Lands, an industrial and recreational neighbourhood changing how we think of “space.”
Project UpdatesMay 10, 2023Leslie Lookout Park – Indigenous Artwork/Construction HoardingProject UpdatesMay 10, 2023CreateTO’s CEO Vic Gupta and Councillor Paula Fletcher met with Indigenous artist and architectural designer Dani Kastelein-Longlade of Brook McIlroy last month who created a mural depicting the Great Anishinaabe Migration installed on the construction hoarding surrounding the future site of Leslie Lookout Park at 12 Leslie Street.
News Releases, Project UpdatesJanuary 27, 2021CreateTO and the City of Toronto announce Claude Cormier + Associés to design and construct Leslie Slip Lookout ParkNews Releases, Project UpdatesJanuary 27, 2021CreateTO and the City of Toronto are pleased to announce that Claude Cormier + Associés (CC+A) has been awarded the contract to design and construct Leslie Slip Lookout Park, an exciting City-building initiative located in Toronto’s Port Lands.
Port Lands
