Sherbourne Park

If you haven’t traveled down to Queens Quay east recently, other than to shop at Loblaws or spend the night checking out the latest trends in club fashion at Guvernment, you aren’t alone, but that may change this summer.
Work is well underway on the “New Blue Edge”, the long awaited regentrification on the eastern portion of the waterfront stretching from Jarvis to Parliament.
The construction began last summer, and its already winning design awards for excellence in architecture.
Sherbourne park pavilion is touted as being a multi use facility, and with its three dimensional form, it was designed to tie all the elements of the future surrounding growth into a meeting place not only for skating in the winter, but as a splash pad in the summer.
After countless years of debate on what to do with the waterfront, it seems as if the future vision of how to make our waterfront the crowning jewel of the city is finally coming to life.
Sherbourne Park is slated to be completed the summer of 2010, as well as the man made “Sugar beach”. Like the HTO urban beach on the waterfront between Rees Street and Spadina, Sugar Beach will be equipt with sand, umbrellas, and plenty of seating to catch some sun after grocery shopping at Loblaws across the street. With the new home of Corus Entertainment almost completed and shovels in the ground on the expansion of George Brown College, its only a matter of time (and money) for the LRT running east of Queens Quay at Bay street to the Distillery to become reality as well.