Alfredo Romano of Castlepoint Numa believes in mixing differing social, and demographic groups in its new development. He states that Toronto is so tightly woven that unless you integrate housing types, you end up with ghettos. His new project, 3C Waterfront, will be doing this mixing on a grand scale with a 2.5 million-square-foot community of commercial, residential and public buildings on the Toronto Waterway between the Don River to the inner Toronto Harbour.
Affordability and community are often considered priorities in new developments. So on top of housing for different economic groups, the 3c Waterfront project will include a Barcelona-style plaza surrounded by “living streets,” with human movement emphasized over other forms of traffic flow.
So in ten years will Toronto be transformed into neighbourhoods that will be diverse, walkable, compact and affordable?.(Read more)
