Sherbourne Common

Came here recently for the George Ezra/​James Bay concert. I love the concept of having concerts in a park — the grassy areas are nice to sit/​stand on, and it just gives me a wonderful, summery feeling! However, I feel that this place is best suited for less popular/​smaller concerts — the grassy area didn’t feel big enough for the amount of people that attended. It would also be nice to have more public toilets installed, rather than an unsightly row of porta-​potties.

Great spot for a concert venue. Right at east harbourfront, on a nice night, it’s such a lovely evening to spend. Definitely better spot for a small concert. It’s a nice, intimate, spot. The sound is ok, better for a big sound because it’s all outdoor the acoustics isn’t the greatest but I really I like it as a Venue!

So surprisingly enough, I actually really like this venue for concerts in Toronto. It’s small enough that you can actually see the artists while they perform. But big enough that they can bring in more popular names (ie we saw George Ezra and James Bay here last night). They don’t have those giant screens at the side of the stage like they do at other TO music venues because you can actually see the artist without squinting your eyes.
The Security is fairly lax. We smelled plenty of weed throughout the night. And I was smoking cigarettes inside the venue. The Security guys are also pretty nice — they gave us bracelets to prove we were over-​age without making us wait in the specific line.
Concert food is also the best and cheapest I have had yet. $ 10 for a beer, $ 15-​$ 18 for a wood fire brick oven pizza. $ 5 for a hotdog. In comparison, I recently paid $ 20 for a beer at Echo Beach.
Look forward to coming back to this venue for more performances!

BOTTOM LINE: Well-​designed and a rad spot to chill out in.
As part of the first step in revitalizing one of the ugliest harbourfronts by any modern standards, Sherbourne Common is pretty sweet. Large grassy knolls outlined with hanging waterfalls and concrete streams, it’s a wonderfully designed spot. Also being next to Sugar Beach and Against the Grain, you have a few options to check out. Now if only they can start building more bike lanes to get here…

I pass Sherbourne Common every day on my way to and from work. I see it all lit up pretty in the dark, I see people hanging out and playing on a sunny day, and sometimes I take a little detour and ride my bike around it myself.
Yesterday i took a lengthy detour! My friend had mentioned that she’d never been though to explore it herself, so we explored! First we swung around Sugar Beach, around the back of the Corus Building to start at the southern most end of Sherbourne Common. The ‘river’ ends down here and winds under a few concrete bridges. Up closer to Queens Quay there is a big open area that has water spouts that sometimes shoot out of the ground. They weren’t going, so that was too bad. There are signs by the river that say ‘No Wading’ but who will enforce that on a hot, sunny day like today? Everyone was dipping their feet in the ice cold water, it was really refreshing.
We crossed north of Queens Quay to the play area. Wow, totally fun! There are teeter-​totters and swings and this spinny disk thingy. Awesome. The teeter-​totters are reinforced with with a giant spring so you so can’t smash your ass on the ground. The swings were ok, but they only have one here and one there (more swings please!). The spinny disk thing, it looks like a big blue plate so you can run around and get it spinning, then hop onto it and spin and spin and spin. Woo! Barf machine!
The ground cover is this really cool reinforced stuff, that when you are walking on it, feels springy, so its good for the kids to run around on and fall on.
For now the only downfall is that the trees are new and young, therefore not much shade. Once they grow big and beautiful this will be an even sweeter spot for summertime play.

This is an interesting park at the bottom of faceless industrial area that is Donlands. This is part of the revitalization project that is underway in this area. I think this area will improve a lot when its done and will provide an entertainment for the residents who will reside here. It small but has modern finish with waterfalls that provide an interesting scenery with the lights up in the evening. With the new Sugar Beach nearby I can see this being popular with families and alike.
Beware though this area has a lot of bugs in the evening.

Love how all water theme has been implemented in the set up of Sherbourne Common!
Those huge waterfalls like structure «Light Showers» for sure a sight to behold. There is also a huge area of water fountain park which transformed into a skating ring in the winter!
I didn’t realize how innovative Sherbourne Common is until I did some research online! It had received an Award of Merit from the 2009 Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence.
What a cool public spaces and for kids a great place to hang with all the facilities!