The website Urban Toronto has an account of the enormous retail and commercial project south of Eastern Avenue to be known as East Harbour. It is the child of the First Gulf Corporation and seems ready to herald, if built as proposed, a radical transformation of the land use and the transit patterns of the area. According to First Gulf, East Harbour will feature 11 million square feet of office space, enough for 50,000 workers, on 60 acres. It will act as the major transit hub for the eastern edge of downtown, with at least 2 GO Train lines, a streetcar line, and the future Relief Line Subway all intersecting at this location. Urban Toronto
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Urban Toronto describes the transit hub as a remarkable structure featuring a high-ceilinged glass arch over both the GO Train platforms and the future extension of Broadview Ave, on which the streetcar is located. It says the soaring arches evoke a sense of grandness, emphasizing the space in a fashion common to many European central rail stations. Underneath the GO and streetcar interchange, the Relief Line subway platform would be located under Eastern Ave. The design of both the transit hub and the subway station are barely more than conceptual at this point, but as you can see in the drawing, a direct connection between the three different rail modes is envisioned. Urban Toronto
