Dan Doctoroff, CEO of Sidewalk Labs, is photographed during a press conference in Toronto, on June 24, 2019. During an embargoed press conference, the media were given Toronto Tomorrow, Sidewalk's Proposal for development of a part of Toronto's eastern waterfront.Google affiliate Sidewalk Labs LLC unveiled a blueprint to spend more than $1.
“This proposal aims to do something extraordinary on Toronto’s eastern waterfront,” Sidewalk CEO Dan Doctoroff told reporters ahead of the plan’s public release. “Create the neighbourhood of the future in the right kind of way, with people at its centre, and with cutting-edge technology and forward-thinking urban design combining to achieve ambitious improvements in the urban environment and in the way we all live.
The remainder of the “IDEA District” would occupy the rest of Villiers Island, and on Polson Quay and a chunk of land east of the Don River. Sidewalk hopes to plan for its design, implement technology there, and potentially help finance infrastructure, including for light-rail transit in the community.
Sidewalk’s ambitions will also face numerous roadblocks. The company only has the right to plan and develop on the Quayside site at the bottom of Parliament Street; it would need to win over numerous groups, including the City of Toronto and private landowners, in order to get access to more of the land.
Mr. Diamond said that he is eager to consult the public on Sidewalk’s plans, though worried the company’s insistence on requirements that are out of Waterfront’s hands, such as transit, will make the process difficult. “It’s hard to figure out where we’re going on a public process with the issue of transit being held over our heads,” the chair said.
Intellectual-property experts have similarly warned that Waterfront Toronto should take a strong stance in getting a piece of any IP that Sidewalk might develop with Canadians’ data. Earlier agreements between Sidewalk and Waterfront say that the two parties would share in Sidewalk’s innovations, though no specifics were yet outlined.
globebusiness It won’t matter if there is transit to/from this devlpmt because no one will be willing to participate in your big brother project. NO ONE. You can take your facial recognition, 5G, social credits overlord technology & ask the politicians to be the guinea pigs in it....crickets
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