Sidewalk Toronto

Over the next few months, we'll be working with
George Brown College to explore projects that relate to innovative community programming and opportunities to continue to strengthen the Toronto innovation ecosystem. In our latest blog, we spoke with Rick Huijbregts, George Brown’s Vice President of Strategy and Innovation to get his thoughts on working with Sidewalk Labs.

George Brown College to help shape the future of city building on Toronto’s waterfront By Alexis Wise, Director, Sidewalk Labs

Today, we are excited to announce that we are partnering with Plaza Ventures to take the next steps in establishing a venture fund for Canadian urban technology companies called Quayside Venture Partners.

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Quayside Venture Partners Sidewalk Labs and Plaza Ventures have partnered to establish a venture capital fund focused on Canadian urban technology companies.

"Ambitious projects of grand scope that create profound change are inherently challenging. But that is not a reason to shy away from innovative joint partnerships between public institutions and global companies." - University of Toronto's Vivek Goel

Opinion: Big projects like Sidewalk Labs’s Quayside in Toronto are challenges worth accepting Disruptive ideas are bound to be controversial, but they also come with many benefits. And to compete globally, the city, province and country need to take part

Today, the Waterfront Toronto board voted unanimously to move the plan to a formal, comprehensive evaluation as well as through further public consultations. We look forward to working together to move this important project forward.

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The latest update on the Sidewalk Toronto project - Sidewalk Toronto Last June, we submitted our proposal for Toronto’s eastern waterfront to Waterfront Toronto. The 1,524-page document reflected 18 months of work and feedback from tens of thousands of Torontonians and hundreds of public officials. The proposal represents our best thinking to date on the path to cr...