2025 Brownie Awards Finalist
LCBO Lands Renewal
Grounded thinking for a growing city.
From a complex waterfront site to a vibrant urban destination, Sugar Wharf exemplifies how smart planning and technical precision can turn challenges into opportunities. This landmark redevelopment transforms former LCBO lands into a dynamic mixed-use community, blending residential, retail, and public spaces with sustainability and connectivity at its core.
Expertise
Capabilities
Risk Assessment, Site Assessment & Remediation
From brownfield to breakthrough.
EnVision supported the transformation of Toronto’s East Bayfront by delivering specialized environmental and risk assessment services for the Sugar Wharf Condominium development—a multi-phase renewal of the former LCBO lands led by Menkes Developments.
The site presented complex environmental and geotechnical challenges due to legacy contamination from decommissioned underground fuel storage tanks. EnVision led the technical strategy, navigating structural limitations, protecting heritage elements, and managing contamination through targeted remediation and monitoring.
Our Risk Assessment team initiated and led three risk assessments under Ontario’s brownfield redevelopment framework (O. Reg. 153/04), balancing regulatory compliance with heritage preservation and development goals. The resulting Risk Management Measures—engineered caps, vapour mitigation systems, and long-term monitoring—helped clear the path for new infrastructure, residential towers, and public spaces.
As the East Bayfront evolves into a vibrant waterfront community, EnVision’s expertise continues to support safe, sustainable growth that integrates the old with the new.
Balancing contamination remediation with heritage protection.
EnVision oversaw the safe removal of two large underground storage tanks on a structurally constrained site adjacent to a heritage façade. U-Fill backfilling and advanced drilling techniques enabled safe excavation, while real-time data collection guided follow-up monitoring and risk assessments.
Complex risk assessments for multi-use redevelopment.
Our team led three detailed risk assessments to support redevelopment of the site, including future parkland and roadways for the City of Toronto. Each risk assessment addressed unique land use challenges and delivered engineered solutions tailored to the site’s historical and future uses.
Driving forward a future-ready waterfront community.
The Sugar Wharf development is reshaping Toronto’s East Bayfront, with residential towers, a school, public park, retail space, and improved pedestrian connections. EnVision’s technical leadership helped secure regulatory confidence and advance this ambitious project with safety and sustainability at its core.
Expertise & Capabilities
Environment
Risk Assessment
Completion of regulatory and due diligence risk assessments (RAs), including Tier III and Modified Generic Tier II RAs, for contaminated sites when remediation is not feasible due to technical or financial constraints.
Site Assessment & Remediation
Specialized regulatory and due diligence assessments of air, soil, sediment, and groundwater, including evaluating, selecting and/or designing appropriate remediation approaches and technologies.
Delivering environmental solutions for Toronto’s waterfront
The LCBO Lands redevelopment project exemplifies the highest standards of environmental site assessment and remediation. From the initial Phase One ESA at 55 Lake Shore Boulevard East to the complex risk assessment and remediation oversight phases, the team demonstrated exceptional technical expertise to ensure the projecproject t met the regulatory requirements to support RSC filings on the various blocks and deliver a two-acre park and future right-of-way to the City of Toronto.
The project involved intricate coordination across multiple stakeholders, including the development team and their contractors, and required innovative solutions to address soil and groundwater contamination while maintaining structural stability. Despite evolving site conditions and regulatory requirements, the team consistently delivered accurate analyses, timely reporting, and proactive communication.
