{"id":118838,"date":"2025-09-23T14:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T18:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/?post_type=metro_project&#038;p=118838"},"modified":"2025-09-23T14:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T18:10:13","slug":"a-massive-public-works-project-in-toronto-creates-a-park-and-revives-ecologies","status":"publish","type":"metro_project","link":"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/projects\/a-massive-public-works-project-in-toronto-creates-a-park-and-revives-ecologies\/","title":{"rendered":"A Massive Public Works Project in Toronto Creates a Park and Revives Ecologies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-sandow-article-header article-header\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-header\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2025//09//20250719-062708-WaterfrontToronto-Biidaasige-Park-AndrewWilliamson-1-scaled.jpg/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-118844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250719-062708-WaterfrontToronto-Biidaasige-Park-AndrewWilliamson-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250719-062708-WaterfrontToronto-Biidaasige-Park-AndrewWilliamson-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250719-062708-WaterfrontToronto-Biidaasige-Park-AndrewWilliamson-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250719-062708-WaterfrontToronto-Biidaasige-Park-AndrewWilliamson-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250719-062708-WaterfrontToronto-Biidaasige-Park-AndrewWilliamson-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250719-062708-WaterfrontToronto-Biidaasige-Park-AndrewWilliamson-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Opening of the eastern section of Biidaasige Park and the new Don River in Toronto, Canada, a $1.4-billion project. The new island, Ookwemin Minising has been created through an ambitious engineering feat, totaling 39.6 hectares. Images courtesy of Waterfront Toronto \/ Vid Ingelevics \/ Ryan Walker <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group article-header_intro none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><p class=\"article-date\" aria-label=\"Post Date\">September 23, 2025<\/p>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">A Massive Public Works Project in Toronto Creates a Park and Revives Ecologies<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column article-header_meta is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"summary size-regular\">The opening of Biidaasige Park marks an early milestone in long-term efforts to \u201crenaturalize\u201d and develop a part of the city\u2019s waterfront.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-sandow-byline byline size-regular\"><span>By: <\/span><a href=https://metropolismag.com/"//tag//akiva-blander/">Akiva Blander<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"social-share\"><li><a href=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////www.facebook.com//sharer//sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmetropolismag.com%2Fprojects%2Fa-massive-public-works-project-in-toronto-creates-a-park-and-revives-ecologies%2F\%22 target=\"_blank\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path d=\"M9 8h-3v4h3v12h5v-12h3.642l.358-4h-4v-1.667c0-.955.192-1.333 1.115-1.333h2.885v-5h-3.808c-3.596 0-5.192 1.583-5.192 4.615v3.385z\" \/><\/svg><\/a><\/li><li><a href=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////www.linkedin.com//sharing//share-offsite//?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmetropolismag.com%2Fprojects%2Fa-massive-public-works-project-in-toronto-creates-a-park-and-revives-ecologies%2F\%22 target=\"_blank\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path d=\"M4.98 3.5c0 1.381-1.11 2.5-2.48 2.5s-2.48-1.119-2.48-2.5c0-1.38 1.11-2.5 2.48-2.5s2.48 1.12 2.48 2.5zm.02 4.5h-5v16h5v-16zm7.982 0h-4.968v16h4.969v-8.399c0-4.67 6.029-5.052 6.029 0v8.399h4.988v-10.131c0-7.88-8.922-7.593-11.018-3.714v-2.155z\" \/><\/svg><\/a><\/li><li><a href=https://metropolismag.com/"http:////pinterest.com//pin//create//button//?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmetropolismag.com%2Fprojects%2Fa-massive-public-works-project-in-toronto-creates-a-park-and-revives-ecologies%2F&amp;description=A+Massive+Public+Works+Project+in+Toronto+Creates+a+Park+and+Revives+Ecologies\%22 target=\"_blank\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"> <path d=\"M12 0c-6.627 0-12 5.372-12 12 0 5.084 3.163 9.426 7.627 11.174-.105-.949-.2-2.405.042-3.441.218-.937 1.407-5.965 1.407-5.965s-.359-.719-.359-1.782c0-1.668.967-2.914 2.171-2.914 1.023 0 1.518.769 1.518 1.69 0 1.029-.655 2.568-.994 3.995-.283 1.194.599 2.169 1.777 2.169 2.133 0 3.772-2.249 3.772-5.495 0-2.873-2.064-4.882-5.012-4.882-3.414 0-5.418 2.561-5.418 5.207 0 1.031.397 2.138.893 2.738.098.119.112.224.083.345l-.333 1.36c-.053.22-.174.267-.402.161-1.499-.698-2.436-2.889-2.436-4.649 0-3.785 2.75-7.262 7.929-7.262 4.163 0 7.398 2.967 7.398 6.931 0 4.136-2.607 7.464-6.227 7.464-1.216 0-2.359-.631-2.75-1.378l-.748 2.853c-.271 1.043-1.002 2.35-1.492 3.146 1.124.347 2.317.535 3.554.535 6.627 0 12-5.373 12-12 0-6.628-5.373-12-12-12z\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" \/><\/svg><\/a><\/li><li><a href=https://metropolismag.com/"mailto:?body=https%3A%2F%2Fmetropolismag.com%2Fprojects%2Fa-massive-public-works-project-in-toronto-creates-a-park-and-revives-ecologies%2F&amp;subject=A+Massive+Public+Works+Project+in+Toronto+Creates+a+Park+and+Revives+Ecologies\%22 target=\"_blank\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path d=\"M12 12.713l-11.985-9.713h23.97l-11.985 9.713zm0 2.574l-12-9.725v15.438h24v-15.438l-12 9.725z\"\/><\/svg><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column empty-header-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap size-regular\">Toronto\u2019s waterfront along Lake Ontario is notoriously fragmented, making awkward next-door neighbors of parks, beaches, event centers, an erstwhile amusement park, condo towers jutting up at the lakefront\u2019s sharp edge, and pockets of industrial land in various stages of disuse, all cut off from the rest of the sprawling metropolis by the Gardiner Expressway.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">The multi-decade, multi-purpose Port Lands Flood Protection project intervenes at one of the waterfront\u2019s largest industrial white elephants, where over a century of outmoded urban planning generated a litany of environmental and other challenges. Led by landscape firm <a href=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////www.mvvainc.com//projects//port-lands-flood-protection/">MVVA<\/a> \u2013 which won an invited competition by Waterfront Toronto in 2007 to \u201crenaturalize\u201d and remediate the Port Lands and prepare it for future development \u2013 the ecological-infrastructural project celebrated its first public-facing milestone this summer, with the opening of <a href=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////www.toronto.ca//explore-enjoy//parks-recreation//places-spaces//beaches-gardens-attractions//biidaasige-park///">Biidaasige Park.<\/a> The new park, whose name means \u201clight shining toward us\u201d in the Ojibwa language, is just the tip of the Port Lands effort, a more than $1 billion, generational feat in ecological engineering and planning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2025//09//Image24-scaled.jpg/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-118842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Image24-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Image24-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Image24-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Image24-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Image24-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Image24-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">One of the recreational trails next to one of the wetlands on the east side of the island. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">The mouth of the Don River, which flows southerly through Toronto and spills out into the lake, had historically been a marshy, diffuse delta, comprising wetlands that could convey and purify the Don\u2019s typically staid flow and occasionally hurricane-level output. But intensive industrial uses along the lower Don throughout the 1800s prompted the city to channelize parts of the river, drain and fill in much of the marshland, and, in 1912, divert its mouth in a sharp, 90-degree turn westward. Those moves \u2013 which resulted in the creation of the new industrial zone \u2013 exacerbated toxic buildup and environmental contamination in the Port Lands, and increased flooding potential both in the Port Lands and upstream, for the next century.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">\u201cA generation ago, people saw there was a problem here \u2026 and that the hard engineering infrastructure that created these conditions wasn\u2019t working,\u201d says Emily Mueller De Celis, a partner at MVVA, nodding to community groups such as Bring Back the Don in the early 1990s. \u201cThere was an acknowledgement that green infrastructure could re-heal the Don and bring it back to life.\u201d MVVA\u2019s winning framework plan for the Port Lands included a \u201cre-naturalized\u201d river mouth to alleviate flood risk, a massive effort to decontaminate and move over a million cubic meters of soil, and the creation of a new landscape for wildlife \u2013 and later, people \u2013 to take root.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2025//09//20250718-112627-WaterfrontToronto-Biidaasige-Park-AndrewWilliamson-0664-683x1024.jpg/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-118847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250718-112627-WaterfrontToronto-Biidaasige-Park-AndrewWilliamson-0664-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250718-112627-WaterfrontToronto-Biidaasige-Park-AndrewWilliamson-0664-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The far side of the river features a fibre-encapsulated soil that has begun growing in, obscuring the step-like structure.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2025//09//20250719-055629-WaterfrontToronto-Biidaasige-Park-AndrewWilliamson-4586-683x1024.jpeg/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-118848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250719-055629-WaterfrontToronto-Biidaasige-Park-AndrewWilliamson-4586-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250719-055629-WaterfrontToronto-Biidaasige-Park-AndrewWilliamson-4586-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The &#8220;snowy owl&#8221; structure is part of a larger playground area designed by Monstrum, a Danish company specializing in play sculptures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"size-regular\">That landscape for wildlife extends below the water\u2019s surface too, explains Herb Sweeney, a principal at the firm: \u201cOne of the most spectacular aspects of this project is not visible to the public.\u201d He describes an aquatic timber-and-rock \u201cfabric\u201d that plays host to both moisture-loving willow trees that strengthen the river banks and \u201cfish hotels\u201d that help recreate the riverine and lacustrine habitat. Above ground, Sweeney says he\u2019s seen red-tailed hawks and bald eagles return to the area, even before the landscaping was complete.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">The new mouth of the river is \u201cre-engaged to where it would have been,\u201d Sweeney adds. The engineering team excavated a deeper river valley and retained soil on site, allowing the river plain to be inundated, if need be, and mimicking the river delta\u2019s original ecology to aid in flood protection. The move also allowed for the creation of the new 100-acre island called Ookwemin Minising (\u201cplace of the black cherry trees\u201d) that contains 50 acres of public park space, including Biidaasige, and thousands of planned homes. This interweaving of various complex ecological, infrastructural, and development goals is what sets this waterfront rehabilitation project apart \u2013 in character and scale \u2013 from many others in North American cities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2025//09//Image29.jpg--scaled.jpeg/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-118843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Image29.jpg--scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Image29.jpg--300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Image29.jpg--1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Image29.jpg--768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Image29.jpg--1536x1025.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Image29.jpg--2048x1366.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Removing the \u2018north plug\u2019, the underwater dam that separated the new river from the Keating Channel. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">As for the project\u2019s social and place keeping objectives, Mueller de Celis says, the newly opened Biidaasige offers \u201ca totally different kind of experience\u2026 The rest of the waterfront is along dock walls, a hard edge, and this is a huge expanse of naturalized water\u2019s edge, where people can go down and kayak, canoe, fish in.\u201d And with the land remediated, upstream neighborhoods fortified against flooding, and the Port Lands ecology on a path toward restoration, the city can proceed with its mixed-use vision, a strategy Mueller de Celis calls \u201clandscape-led: Parks before all the neighborhoods.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2025//09//Image27.jpg--scaled.jpeg/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-118852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Image27.jpg--scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Image27.jpg--300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Image27.jpg--1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Image27.jpg--768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Image27.jpg--1536x1025.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Image27.jpg--2048x1366.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A view of the Cherry Street South bridge. In the foreground one of the wetlands is visible, protected by a carp-gate (the concrete structure at the opening to the wetland) to prevent invasive fish species from entering the wetland. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"comment size-regular\">Would you like to comment on this article? 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