Projects
Corus Quay, originally named First Waterfront Place, is an 8 storey commercial office tower located on a 2.5-acre (10,000 m2) Toronto waterfront site. Corus Quay will be Corus Entertainment's new Toronto headquarters, consolidating its 10 locations and 1,200 employees into one site.
The building is a collaboration between the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation and the Toronto Economic Development Corporation. The East Bayfront Precinct, where the building is be located, is intended to be an important public destination as well as provide a range of housing and commercial opportunities.
Underpass Park, inaugurated on August 2, 2012, is the 18th public space built or revitalized by Waterfront Toronto since 2005.
Read more about this topic: Waterfront Toronto
Famous quotes containing the word projects:
“But look what we have built ... low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace.... Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums.... Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.”
—Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)
“One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and they do not plan. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for a future, none at all.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)