contributions along with public fitnds permiffed the Trail to be built through the marsh.
(b) In the Niagara Region young entrepreneurs from the wine, food and tourism industries teamed up with the Trust and the Town of Lincoln to link their businesses to the Waterfront Trail by creating a loop around Jordan Harbour.
(c) On a section of the City of Mississauga's waterfront eight different businesses provided easements and contributed building materials to allow the Trail to cross their lands, thereby boosting their image in the community.
(d) At the boundary between two cities (Toronto and Etobicoke) the City Councils, Metropolitan Toronto Council, the Province and the Trust pooled their financial resources to build a pedestrian bridge over the Humber River. It took two and a half years to negotiate the specific location of the bridge and the fonding arrangements.
The Roundhouse Park Development
The transition of Toronto's central waterfront noted earlier is now well under way and is characterized increasingly by a very wide diversity and mix of uses. Transportation and industry still have their parts to play but there is significant room for residential development (over 20,000 units are approved or proposed), and the central waterfront has emerged as one of Canada's key trade, tourism and entertainment destinations.
A series of places are emerging on the central waterfront. One of them, five minutes walk from Union Station, is the area around the new six hectare Roundhouse Park, which is currently under construction to open in 1997.
Roundhouse Park will be the centrepiece set amidst the surrounding major sports, convention, entertainment and cultural facilities. It will help to reconnect the Financial District of the City Centre to the waterfront and link to the Waterfront Trail.
The Park is being built on top of the $180 million expansion of the Metropolitan Toronto Convention Centre, itself under construction on the site of the former railway engine roundhouse and rail sidings of the Canadian Pacific Railway. It too will open in 1997.
The old Roundhouse has been partially dismantled during the construction process but will be rebuilt using the original bricks and materials, and put back into use as a landmark tourism attraction. The private sector will be invited to submit business proposals to the City for this purpose.
Adjacent to the Convention Centre is the CN Tower, the world's tallest self-standing structure. Originally built for telecommunication purposes (which it still serves) the Tower has become one of Toronto's major tourist attractions. It offers a wide mix of restaurant and entertainment facilities which are being expanded through another $150 million of investment for completion by 1999/2000.
