Location is everything, and this Corktown community has plenty to offer. Over the past ten years or so this charming neighbourhood has exploded into a well-planned and thoughtful condo community carefully designed with some of the city’s most historic Toronto architecture. Few neighbourhoods have managed to build condos and award -winning public areas (Corktown Common) that make for an incredible family friendly neighbourhood without an overbuilt lack of character concrete jungle.
Nestled between downtown’s best neighbourhoods, Corktown is steps away from the city’s best urban amenities. With the award-winning Corktown Commons park, the Underpass Park and lots more, many young professionals and families and first-time homebuyers are excited to call Corktown home.
Surrounded by some of the city’s most sought after neighbourhoods, Corktown is steps away from the best urban amenities downtown has to offer. For families, Corktown’s Cooper Koo Family YMCA has a a wide range of programs and camps as well as a full fitness centre and large swimming pool.
Surrounded by nature Corktown is a short walk to the Don Valley, hiking trails and city parks. Just minutes away are the award-winning Pam McConnell Aquatic Centre, as well as the all new Regent Park Athletic Grounds featuring an Ice Rink, Artificial Turf Soccer, Cricket Pitch, Basketball Court, Children’s Playground and Community Gardens. Urban development has brought national retailers such as Sobeys and Shoppers Drug Mart to this growing community with many more shopping options on the way. And close proximity to Toronto neighbourhoods like Riverdale, Distillery District, Leslieville and the St. Lawrence Market offer even more entertainment and recreation opportunities.
Arguably one of the city’s best parks, Corktown Commons is 18-acre re-naturalized green space is one of 100 recipients of Popular Science’s Best of What’s New award. With marshland, playgrounds and splash pads families can spend an entire day at Corktown Commons with picnic tables, BBQs, and even washroom facilities – all this and more right in the downtown core of the city, imagine that!
The once-abandoned, post-industrial site, which is just west of the lower Don River, Corktown Common, a new urban park in the 80-acre West Don Lands neighbourhood, has been recognized for positive and lasting impact on the community and the environment. Corktown Common, combines critical infrastructure with a high-quality community park, which will deliver long-term environmental, social and economic benefits.
The $27-million downtown east park, which is roughly 19 times the size of Yonge-Dundas Square, aims to reconnect the long-neglected area southeast of the downtown core with the rest of the city as well as celebrate the area’s native ecology.
Corktown Common 🚶🏻♀️6 min.
Lower Don River Trail 🚴🏼♀️ 10 min.
Underpass Park 🚶🏻♀️ 10 min.
Cherry Beach 🚴🏼♀️ 8 min.
Sugar Beach 🚶🏻♀️ 16 min.
Sackville Playground 🚶🏻♀️ 1 min.
Percy Park 🚶🏻♀️ 6 min.
Orphans Green Dog Park 🚶🏻♀️ 4 min.
Recent transit expansion and infrastructure growth give this neighbourhood an enviable 99/100 Transit Score. Multiple TTC connections are within walking distance. By Dundas St E and River St there is access to both the 501 Queen and 505 Dundas Streetcar routes operating 24/7. Getting to Yonge St along either Queen West or Dundas West takes a short ten minute ride.
The planned Ontario Line TTC expansion will further improve connectivity and extend transit options in the downtown east offering residents 28 Eastern a five-minute subway ride to Union Station. Also placing Sumach Station a quick seven minute walk away and connecting Corktown with the Regional Express Rail, SmartTrack, Broadview LRT and Queen’s Quay LRT.
For drivers, Corktown is just minutes by car to the Don Valley Parkway, giving direct access to the Bayview Extension, Gardiner Express, and Highway 401. Downtown Toronto is a ten minute ride and it takes less than fifteen minutes to get to Ryerson University and George Brown Culinary Institute.
Corktown Common🚶🏻♀️6 min.
Distillery District🚶🏻♀️3 min.
Canary District🚶🏻♀️2 min.
George Brown St. James Campus🚶🏻♀️9 min.
St. Lawrence Market🚶🏻♀️11 min.
Union Station 🚶🏻♀️30 min.
George Brown Waterfront Campus 🚴🏼♀️ 14 min.
Ryerson University 🚴🏼♀️ 11 min.
"It will be a jobs hub. It will be a growth hub. It will be a transit hub. It will be the hub that’s just north of a renewed waterfront. It will be the place that sparks redevelopment all across the east side of Toronto." - Councillor Paula Fletcher
Because this one is MAJOR!
One of the largest developments in Canadian history may be happening on the the site of where Unilever currently sits. This is not another saturation of condo towers. Stimulated by a wave of urbanization, Downtown East has become the future of Toronto’s job growth with notable tech sector developments such as East Harbour bringing an estimated 50,000 jobs to the area.
This is NOT another cluster of condos. This area ambitiously aims to be one of the city’s primary commercial hubs, like Canary Wharf in London, with an estimate of 11.5 million sq ft of new office space. Early developmental plans include an important transit hub that will integrate the TTC’s Relief Line with Smart Track, Go and the East Bay, Front LRT, an extended Broadview streetcar. It is imagined to function almost like a second Union station!
