"TEDCO is under review," he said testily. "I don't know when that will be ready. We have already removed its authority on the waterfront. But I don't buy fiddling with the location of Filmport. It will bring excitement to the shipping channel."
That's hard to accept. Clearly, the mayor has never seen any of the drawings from a study of what could be done with housing along the shipping channel. It has the potential to rival Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Copenhagen or Stockholm.
Not now, of course. That dream is over.
The quartet was in town this week to talk about its projects, including those on the waterfronts of Liverpool, Amsterdam and Copenhagen. The firms represented have designed opera houses, museums and concert halls – "magnets," they called them – intended to attract people to those cities' newly revitalized harbourlands.
In Toronto, meantime, after seven years of painful effort, we have a condo or two in the works, an energy plant, a film studio and an office building.
But as the Danes made clear, their projects are each conceived as part of a larger campaign to return former industrial lands to residents. In Toronto, by contrast, we seem to be moving from one industrial model to another.
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