"We're marching up to the altar, so to speak," says
Waterfront CEO John Campbell of the latest and penultimate step towards opening up the
Lower Don Lands to eventual development and incorporation into the city's cultural ambit.
City Council has finally approved Waterfront's plan to solve the area's flooding problem, a major obstacle to development.
"The river comes down now in a channel south and then turns 90 degrees west and goes out the
Keating Channel," Campbell says. "The new flood protection builds a new river where it turns and goes farther south, out towards where the T&T is now. The river topology is going to change so you can allow for the flood waters to get out by an overflow into the Keating Channel and into the shipping channel."
There's no funding for the project yet, but Campbell suspects it will cost about $600 million. He estimates the work will take several years and probably be done by the end of the decade.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: John Campbell
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