Harbourfront Centre
Toronto
Ken Greenberg has been assisting Harbourfront Centre, the major cultural destination on the Toronto waterfront, in creating a strategic plan for the renewal of its 10 acre site, reclaiming lands currently used for surface parking lots, improving circulation, and adding to the range of indoor and outdoor venues and public areas at the water's edge. Created in the 1970's this strategic portion of the Toronto Waterfront is in now rapidly becoming the centre of a new waterfront neighbourhood, closely linked to Downtown. The renewed vision for Harbourfront builds on its unique contribution as the city's 'Culture Port' by reclaiming underutilized spaces and strengthening access to and along the water's edge. It coverts surface lots and leftover spaces into valuable new indoor and outdoor recreational, cultural, and commercial spaces; adds new indoor/ outdoor rooms and squares; improves the water's edge and marine access with a new network of floating boardwalks and piers; and adds to the range of uses at Harbourfront making it a true year round destination for Torontonians and visitors. New revenue opportunities will also enable Harbourfront to become more self-sustaining. Significant elements of this plan have now been implemented.