Sidewalk Labs, the Google-affiliated company selected in 2017 to redevelop a 12-acre piece of Toronto’s eastern waterfront, delivered its proposed master plan to the public on Monday. It’s the definitive vision for how Sidewalk hopes to reinvent the area, and sports a laundry list of plans for technological innovation, real estate, construction and data.
According to Sidewalk’s proposed plan, the Quayside development would be completed in 2020, with shovels in the ground in 2021 and occupancy by 2026. The Villiers West plan would be complete in 2022, with construction beginning in 2023 and an initial move-in date of 2027.The plan describes giant, rotating curtains to shield pedestrians from the rain and self-driving delivery pods to transport small packages, all connected by one ubiquitous network.
Underneath the streets, an underground tunnel network of self-driving transportation vehicles could be created, carrying containers connects deliveries to homes, stores and offices.Sidewalks says it wants to be the developer for Quayside, the 12-acre plot originally at the centre of the project, and an added portion not included initially, the western half of Villiers Island, which sits to the east between Quayside and the mouth of the Don River.
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