Julie Di Lorenzo, the Toronto developer and former Waterfront Toronto board member, spoke in an interview with the CBC’s Metro Morning on Monday. Di Lorenzo provided further information about her summer resignation, for which she cited concerns around the partnership with Sidewalk Labs, and the issues she continues to have with it. “I left the board because, as time passed, it seemed that Waterfront Toronto’s narrative and Waterfront Toronto’s success was being overtaken by a new company in town called Sidewalk Labs,” said Di Lorenzo. “Everything that we’ve done well seemed to be part of the business plan that Sidewalk Labs was promoting.” (Metro Morning)

Talking point: Di Lorenzo also discussed her concerns surrounding the governance of the development. “I didn’t think that I could stay on the board with a document that asked for a joint government relations platform. Waterfront Toronto should be directly accountable to the levels of government and should not have a filter by a for-profit company,” she said. She called for Waterfront Toronto to take back control of the project, and sees the current standing of the Quayside project as an opportunity to reset.