Ontario Place redevelopment continues

Toronto's waterfront theme park known as Ontario Place is for many just memories of what used to exist, from the the children's area to the waterpark and the amusement rides. Then the island was closed in 2012 and a lot of stuff was removed, only the spiral stairs for the water slide and the remains of the flume ride remained, besides the old buildings.

Now it was sad that they closed it for so long without even functioning as an urban park, what a waste of space. Then they opened it once again for small festivals and general use and completed the Provincial Park (Trillium) on the east side of the island. The west side is now closed for the construction works.

A redevelopment was announced in 2021 and the inclusion of Therme Spa certainly made the news (and remains there to this day), then there was the controversial planned relocation of the Ontario Science Centre to the island. Dougie can't catch a break for all his maneuvering! The whole house of cards built to approve the spa has been questioned in the media and a big bombshell landed recently courtesy of 
American newspapers.

Construction is underway and it looks like many of the removals are completed and the pedestrian bridges, pod buildings have been wrapped or covered in scaffolding. Civil grading works are being done on the far west side.

Besides the spa I look forward to the increased public space, walkways and public transit connections. I hope that they don't eventually add a casino to the mix in Ontario Place.

A recycling bin in High Park has "Don't worry Ford can't walk this far" graffiti alluding to the potential redevelopment of High Park but being saved because Ford couldn't make the walk from Ontario Place. Jokes on us because he would just ride a big SUV into High Park.