Rees Park Playground and Pavillion

Developer: Waterfront Toronto
  
Address: 318 Queens Quay W, Toronto
Category: Public Space / Park
Status: Pre-ConstructionCompletion: TBD
Height: ? ft / ? mStoreys: ? storeys
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CanAsian said:
So after decade of waiting for this park to be in fruition ended up for nothing huh? Typical Toronto.
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Bit more complicated than that.............

Limited amount I can share..........that isn't already public

The public part is informative, if not comprehensive.
 
smably said:
Can anyone shed some light on why this is the case? It seems like the Inner Harbour West Tunnel is in design and moving ahead, so is this just a matter of having chosen a different location for this storage shaft? And if that's the case, what's the new location?
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Extremely belated update on this in case anyone else was curious. I couldn't let this go, so I followed up on an email I'd sent back in January and got this back from a senior engineer on the project:
The Inner Harbour West Tunnel project is currently in the design phase, and is anticipated to start construction in 2029. Through the design process, an opportunity was identified to eliminate the storage shaft within Rees Street Park, while still meeting the overall storage requirements for the system within the tunnel itself and the other shaft locations. No additional shafts have been added to the project at this time.
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There you have it!
 
So, I'm leafing through the Parks Capital Budget details.................

The 'design' of this park is again in the budget:

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That is 2025, 2026 and 2027 above.

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What happened to the construction you ask?

Don't shoot the messenger....

This number: (16.6M) shows up............... in 2034....
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Update, I found the slightly more detailed note on this project:

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The green means its tracking on time and on budget! LOL............. seriously, we should all get to re-baseline our assumptions to fit our abilities.

My reading of the above suggests that buried in the design money may be funds to do a 'Sugar Wharf' treatment here, with a very basic park as an interim condition.

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FWIW, the removal of the Toronto Water project did not require any substantial change to the design of the park, though it allows for one; and that is not the reason the previously selected design was spiked.

I think that's all I will say about that for now.
 
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