Sherbourne Park, currently a parking lot, on the go

We wrote a few months ago about the closing of Town and Country restaurant. We've been meaning to expand on this, especially since we found some information from Toronto building permits. The city issued a demolition order for the site, 190 Queens Quay East, at Sherbourne.

In recent weeks, the site of the restaurant has been cordoned off and it looks like the building will come down soon. Here's the permit.

Location: 190 QUEENS QUAY E
TORONTO ON M5A 3Y4

Ward 28: Toronto Centre-Rosedale

Application#: 09 115477 DEM 00 DM Accepted Date: Mar 10, 2009

Project: Other Demolition

Description: This proposal includes the demolition of the existing one(1) storey building to make way for a park that is to be created as part of the Toronto Waterfront initiative.

It'll make way for the Waterfront Toronto East Bayfront project's Sherbourne Park, pictured below, image and details from the Waterfront Toronto site.

Sherbourne Park will be a spectacular new park in the heart of the East Bayfront midway between the Jarvis and Parliament Street slips. It will be both a local and regional amenity. The park will extend from the water’s edge to Lake Shore Boulevard, bisected by Queens Quay. It is envisioned as an urban room and will provide a strong terminus at the foot of Sherbourne Street. On the east and west sides, the park will be bound by buildings with a weather protected arcade creating a link to the waterfront during all seasons. At its southern end the park will be integrated with the continuous water’s edge promenade and will be designed to reinforce and strengthen the water’s edge as a continuous and active year round destination. Park programming could include a large public gathering place and a water feature that could be frozen in the winter for skating.