Corktown Common is a park in the south eastern portion of the West Don Lands neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada which opened in 2013.
The West Don Lands, including what is now the Corktown Common, was once an industrialized area, once notably occupied by the pork processing plants of the William Davies Company and acres of railyards.
In 1988, the West Don Lands was expropriated by the City of Toronto in partnership with the Government of Ontario in order to build a new community known as Atatiri.
The 2008 global financial crisis dimmed the prospects of timely implementation of the Precinct Plan, but that changed when Toronto won the bid to hose the 2015 Pan American Games.
The park was designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, and opened with over 700 trees and thousands of shrubs and grasses that are native to Southern Ontario's Carolinian forest ecosystem.
[2] The park contains playgrounds, a splash pad, an athletic field, open lawns, a marsh, tables, benches, a barbecue, a fireplace, bike paths, a boardwalk and an off-leash dog area.