There's life at Ontario Place. Aside from the peek that we got at the dilapidated grounds for the in/future festival, there's been little news about the future of the park outside of delays to the initial opening date of the urban park that will make up phase one of the revitalization efforts.
Provincial representatives gave tours of the construction site today, which is slowly starting to reveal the shape of the park to come. The new opening date is now pegged at next summer, a more realistic goal based on the amount of work that's been done to this date (the original target for phase one was 2015)
The 7.5 acre waterfront park will have a variety of features when it opens to the public, including granite rock faces that'll provide a view onto the skyline, a central fire pit, a waterfront trail, a boardwalk and an open-air pavilion. It all looks very promising, even as the rough outline is only coming into view now.
Still to come is the planting of over 1,200 trees and plant species to fill the park in and provide future shade. It will be sometime before future phases of the revitalization effort take place, but it will certainly help when the initial park allows people to use this highly valuable waterfront site again. Ontario Place officially closed at the end of the 2012 season.
by Derek Flack via blogTO
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