UNION STATION RENOVATION
• Union Station renovation to take five years, $640M and some hoarding [ National Post ]
• Union Station’s big reno: Grin while you bear it [ Toronto Star ]
• Union Station facelift moves forward [ Globe & Mail ]
• Private partners named in Union Station reno [ Globe & Mail ]
ICE TIME
• Lack of ice time is not ‘a huge crisis in the city‘ [ National Post ]
• City scraps over ice time [ Toronto Sun ]
• Council sends ice-time allocation debate into overtime [ Toronto Star ]
• Ice time for girls, neatly arranged and wrapped up in a pink bow [ Globe & Mail ]
• Toronto council set to vote on equitable ice time [ Globe & Mail ]
MAPLE LEAF GARDENS
• Gardens renovation a complex affair [ National Post ]
• Hockey rink ‘made the difference’ [ Toronto Sun ]
• Neighbourhood awaits return to glory [ Toronto Sun ]
• Maple Leaf Gardens ushers in the future [ Toronto Star ]
• A bittersweet makeover for Maple Leaf Gardens [ Globe & Mail ]
• In aisle 4, PC Memories of Stanley Cup? [ Toronto Star ]
OTHER NEWS
• Councillors at odds over new bylaw to tax billboards [ National Post ]
• Shelter cost balloons to $10M [ Toronto Sun ]
• Scarborough league in danger of collapse [ Toronto Sun ]
• School’s park paradise should be given to city [ Toronto Star ]
• TTC union leader faces lone challenger [ Toronto Star ]
• You agreed to let 407 waive your rights, right? [ Toronto Star ]
• Empty house revives Pickering airport fears [ Toronto Star ]
• Hazel McCallion’s supporters to hold rally for embattled Mayor [ National Post ]
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Fiorito – “No money need change hands; in fact, if money did change hands it would be obscene because the park is already ours. No one can sell us what we already own.”
An interesting piece of reporting spoiled by happy clappy bullcrap at the end.
Yes it’s all “ours” and I think it would be great if school lands were merely leased from the city to the Board to ensure ongoing public use but they aren’t.
Now if he had proposed that BuildToronto mesh with TDSB asset managers to do a land swap similar to that being done by the Port Authority and the City to build the new streetcar yard, that would not only be possible but would give his readership a practical example of where our various public boards need to pool and share resources – at a fair consideration to ensure the services those boards give can be delivered without one of them simply grabbing from the other.
It would have also have been valuable to the readership if he had found out what the zoning was for that land.
My contracting Hobbyhorse tells me that there is something being left unsaid about the Peter St Shelter job.
File this under things that make me go hmmm.
Redcliff is going to lease 160,000 sq ft. of retail space in Union Station for 2.5 million a year. Well below market rates. On top of that, the city is expecting to pay for a 120 million debenture with the Redcliff lease.
Between this and the Peter St. shelter, one really has to wonder what is going on. Can it really be this bad?