Toronto staff recommends listing Ontario Place on city’s heritage register on a new report that will be presented to preservation board on April 30, 2019.
Ontario Place redevelopment advocates are reacting warily to news that Premier Doug Ford’s proposed “Ontario Line” would bring subway service to, or near, the former amusement park.
Great cities need great public parks and public spaces. Toronto has a remarkable-work-in-progress band of parks and public space stretching across the waterfront. It has the capacity to be magnificent and Ontario Place is a key and indispensable component.
“It was celebrated as a ‘people’s park’ but it became an incredibly diverse meeting point”. A great piece on why redevelopment plans raise concerns for Ontario Place supporters.
Adam Vaughan, a Liberal MP from Toronto, made a statement in the House of Commons calling on the Ford government to step away from redevelopment plans for Ontario Place on Toronto’s waterfront.
Ontario Place gets a feature in Canadian Architect, with some architects calling for preservation and public input in the redevelopment process instead of private interest development.