June 28, 2021 Maryam Farag
Catherine McKenna, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, visited Canada’s Sugar Beach; the transformed Waterfront Toronto park that was once a surface parking lot in a former industrial area.
Featuring a plaza, a tree-lined promenade and views of large freighters docking in the slip to deliver sugar to the neighbouring Redpath factory, the accessible urban beach is one of the many Waterfront Toronto revitalization projects to embody Canada’s infrastructure ambitions: to build public infrastructure that provides economic, social and environmental benefits for people across the country.
“Waterfront Toronto’s work to build a vibrant waterfront for everyone is creating jobs and economic opportunity, providing new access to green spaces and the water, and is building a more inclusive community,” said McKenna. “We are fortunate to have talented new federal board appointees that will play a critical role in delivering on t
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