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PICTURES.
Every image from the Vision, with what each one actually is.
The Vision describes its own images as a way to make ideas visible — conversation starters, something people can react to, challenge, improve and imagine before a final plan exists. They are not approved designs, engineering drawings, costed commitments, or promises that anything will be built exactly as shown. Every picture is labelled with what it is. None of them is a photograph of Collingwood as it stands today — if one is ever added here, it will say so.
Read the full Vision — 62 pages, with the reasoning behind each of these.
Waterfront + harbourRead this section
The harbour peninsula from the air
Terminals / Millennium Park
The peninsula at golden hour with the grain terminals left standing, and a low waterfront building running along the water's edge toward them. The Vision also puts this forward as one of four sites to test for the Arts, Culture and Events Centre, and says access, servicing, traffic, parking and the future of the terminals would all have to be resolved.
Read Waterfront + harbour in the VisionThe marina hub from the street
A marina office and service building at the foot of the harbour road, with the grain terminals rising directly behind it.
Read Waterfront + harbour in the VisionHarbour House and the waterfront street
A waterfront streetscape — a row of harbour-front buildings, a boardwalk beside them and the terminals closing the view at the end of the road.
Read Waterfront + harbour in the VisionThe promenade at the Harbour Table
Patio dining spilling onto a wide boardwalk, with the boat slips on one side and the grain elevator standing over the far end.
Read Waterfront + harbour in the VisionThe harbour amphitheatre
An outdoor amphitheatre and plaza beside the grain elevator, set up for a concert at sunset with the bay behind the stage.
Read Waterfront + harbour in the VisionThe Shipyard Market from the road
The long industrial shed that would hold the Shipyard Market, seen from the street with its name and an anchor across the end wall.
Read Waterfront + harbour in the VisionInside the Shipyard Market
The main hall from the mezzanine: food stalls down both sides, a live band on the end stage and communal tables filling the floor.
Read Waterfront + harbour in the VisionDockside Kitchen and the stall row
The market at ground level, with the Dockside Kitchen and Harbour Pantry counters trading under the old roof trusses.
Read Waterfront + harbour in the VisionThe propeller kept in the hall
A ship's propeller kept as a centrepiece on the market floor, with the Fresh Catch counter and the bakery beside it.
Read Waterfront + harbour in the Vision
Downtown community weekendsRead this section
A market down the main street
The main street closed to cars for the weekend, market tents down the middle of it and the bay and the terminals at the far end.
Read Downtown community weekends in the VisionThe weekend market from above
The same weekend market seen from the rooftops, crowds filling the street between the downtown blocks with the harbour beyond.
Read Downtown community weekends in the VisionPlay equipment in the middle of downtown
A downtown block given over to a playground, seating and planting, with the existing storefronts left exactly as they are on both sides.
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Arts, culture + events centreRead this section
The events centre on the Eddie Bush block
140 Ste. Marie / Eddie Bush block
A lit marquee and a queue on the corner. One of four sites the Vision puts up for the same test — it says the goal is not to pre-select a winner. Earlier feasibility work identified the adjacent parking area for further study.
Read Arts, culture + events centre in the VisionThe events centre at 45 St Paul Street
45 St Paul St, Collingwood, ON L9Y 3P1
The heritage brick tower kept and built onto rather than replaced, at sunset. One of four sites the Vision puts up for the same test — it says the goal is not to pre-select a winner.
Read Arts, culture + events centre in the VisionThe events centre on the Giant Tiger block
190 Ste. Marie / Giant Tiger area
A corner frontage on Ste. Marie Street, with THEATRE, MUSIC, ART and COMMUNITY set into the face of the building. The Vision calls this one a redevelopment concept to investigate and says plainly that it is not a confirmed public shortlist site.
Read Arts, culture + events centre in the Vision
Collingwood Club / recreationRead this section
The Collingwood Club entrance
The main doors at sunset, families walking up through the forecourt planting, with the pool visible through the glass.
Read Collingwood Club / recreation in the VisionThe Collingwood Club from above
The whole building at dusk from the air, the pool hall lit through the facade and the parking and drop-off laid out in front.
Read Collingwood Club / recreation in the VisionCommunity rooms
Meeting rooms with movable walls and a presentation screen, set up for a community group rather than for a sports booking.
Read Collingwood Club / recreation in the VisionThe lounge and work hub
An open lounge with planting, booths and long shared tables, for people working or waiting between somebody else's practice.
Read Collingwood Club / recreation in the VisionThe club lounge and bar
A bar and social dining room off the main concourse, so the building has somewhere to sit that is not an arena bench.
Read Collingwood Club / recreation in the VisionThe ten-lane pool
A competition-length lap pool with a separate leisure pool alongside it and bleacher seating for spectators.
Read Collingwood Club / recreation in the VisionThe pool hall from the far end
The same aquatic centre seen down the length of the lanes, with the fitness mezzanine looking out over the water.
Read Collingwood Club / recreation in the VisionThe fitness floor
Cardio machines along the windows, free weights behind them and a turf strip at the back for training and rehab work.
Read Collingwood Club / recreation in the VisionBasketball in the main arena
The main arena set up for a basketball game, with the seating bowl full and the scoreboard running above centre court.
Read Collingwood Club / recreation in the VisionThe multi-court gym
A full-width gymnasium marked out for several courts at once, so more than one group can use the floor at the same time.
Read Collingwood Club / recreation in the VisionThe gym as a hall
The same gymnasium with a theatrical stage at one end, so the floor can hold a performance, a ceremony or an exam sitting.
Read Collingwood Club / recreation in the VisionArena 1
A full-size rink with a game on and the stands filled, seen from the corner above the blue line.
Read Collingwood Club / recreation in the VisionArena 2
The second rink from the upper level, with its own scoreboard and seating, so two games can run at once.
Read Collingwood Club / recreation in the VisionArena 1 from the stands
The same rink from behind the glass, close enough to see the crowd along the boards and the scoreboard overhead.
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Central Park + baseball + housingRead this section
Central Park master plan
An aerial plan of the Central Park lands showing where a YMCA, an expanded curling club, a covered outdoor rink and green-roof apartments would sit.
Read Central Park + baseball + housing in the VisionThe baseball complex
Several diamonds, a playground and parking laid out together, with Georgian Bay and the escarpment behind them.
Read Central Park + baseball + housing in the VisionCollingwood Baseball from the air
The main diamond in use, drawn as one of the Vision's own title images under the line brighter days, bigger tomorrows.
Read Central Park + baseball + housing in the VisionThe wider sports lands
The same complex from further out — diamonds, practice fields and parking together — under the line a greater playground.
Read Central Park + baseball + housing in the VisionApartments on the site
Mid-rise apartment blocks with balconies and surface parking, on the lands beside the sports fields rather than out on a new road.
Read Central Park + baseball + housing in the VisionThe curling club, expanded
The Collingwood Curling Club kept as it is, with a four-sheet expansion drawn alongside it — ten sheets in total — and new housing on the lands beside. The Vision says the exact number of sheets would come from a needs and operating analysis rather than from the rendering, and that the expansion is a campaign concept, not an approved Town project.
Read Central Park + baseball + housing in the Vision