Prompted by the ongoing transformation of Eglinton Avenue to accommodate the Crosstown Light Rail Transit project, Wynford Green will be a significant part of the “Four Corners’, the first new mixed-use community to be realized along the Crosstown route.

The new Wynford Green community aims to leverage its proximity to the spectacular ravine system of the Don River Valley, by organizing the public realm for access and connections to the broader ravine park system, and by creating ecological corridors that bring the texture and colours of the river valley deep into the site. The project also recognizes the growing cluster of cultural institutions taking root further east of the site along Wynford Drive, such as the Aga Khan Museum and Gardens, the Ismaili Centre, and the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre.

Wynford drive itself is re imagined as a ‘ravine street’, anchoring the site to its ecological context, and connecting to the cultural cluster of institutions further east. This ‘nature - culture’ connection is reinforced with a series of new public open spaces, new community amenities and transformed heritage buildings that interface with this new community spine. Eglinton Avenue is re-imagined as a broad and sweeping ravine landscape, extending the presence of the ravine while recognizing the corporate heritage landscape of the former IBM headquarters on the ravine blufftop.