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A real estate developer from San Francisco will lead the next phase of Toronto’s waterfront renewal starting in the new year.
A real estate
developer from San Francisco will lead the next
phase of Toronto ’s
waterfront renewal starting in the new year.
William Fleissig, who
specializes in sustainable urban planning and public policy, has been hired by Waterfront Toronto to
replace John Campbell as president and CEO.
At a December 14 news
conference at Waterfront Toronto’s Bay
Street headquarters, Fleissig, who is currently
president of cohousing and development outfit Communitas Development, called
his move to Toronto
a career capstone.
“This is my legacy
project,” he says. “All of me will be involved in this project and this will be
my sole focus going forward.”
Fleissig was chosen
from more than 300 applicants after Campbell
announced his intention to retire in 2015. The former Brookfield Properties
head has led Waterfront Toronto since its inception in 2001, overseeing the redevelopment of some 800
hectares of the city’s waterfront, including through some tumultuous
times during Rob Ford’s tenure as mayor. Mark Wilson, who is chair of the board
of directors says that of the nine candidates selected for interviews, Fleissig
was the only one unanimously endorsed by the board.
Prior to leading
Communitas in San Francisco , Fleissig served as
the director of planning and development for Boulder , Colorado Denver . His projects have
appeared in Boston , Cambridge ,
Los Angeles and San Jose .
“This is not just
another redevelopment project,” he says of his new gig. “This is truly one of
the most amazing opportunities worldwide. I could not think of a better place
to be... creating neighbourhoods that everyone will feel is their
neighbourhood.”
One of Fleissig’s
first challenges will be the redevelopment of the Port
Lands, an 400-hectare parcel south of Lake Shore Boulevard and bounded by the Toronto Inner
Harbour and Ashbridges Bay
“We’ve been working
for 10 years to get the waterfront mouth of the Don ready, so the table is set.
That’s his first challenge,” she says.
In addition to
tackling the area surrounding the Don River ,
Fletcher identifies transit and the east Gardiner Expressway as two other
priorities. “All the developments that have taken place there in East Bayfront
and the Don Lands
City council voted in
June to maintain
the Gardiner east of Jarvis rather than tearing it down, opting for a
hybrid version pushed by Mayor John Tory. Fletcher says that Fleissig’s
experience in city building will come into play when it comes to “the best
model for a hybrid because we can’t just have any old highway on the
waterfront, assuming that’s what we end up building.”
For Fleissig, the
unique complexities affecting each area along the waterfront and the sheer
scale of the project is what drew him to the job. The expectations for
sustainability is what sealed the deal.
“Everything that
we’re trying to do in terms of energy, liveability and diversity, is
represented in this project.,” he said. “I could not think of another location,
market, or opportunity where the alignment that’s been created around a vision
is so clear and compelling.”
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Then Ted Fei, God be with you Sir
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