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Mirvish + Gehry Meets the Public at Metro Hall

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The first of what are certain to be many public consultations on the landmark Mirvish+Gehry proposal took place at Metro Hall on the evening of December 11th. The meeting was chaired by City Councillor, Adam Vaughan, in whose ward the proposal is sited. The approximately 100 people who were in attendance heard from City staff about the issues that the proposal raises and about the complicated process through which the proposal will be vetted as it seeks approval. Speakers included Phil Carvalino, the City Planner assigned to the file, James Parahk, Senior Urban Designer at the City, and Mary Macdonald, Acting Manager of Heritage Preservation Services at the City. Many other planning staff members were at the meeting, volunteering their time to assist to answer questions about the proposal and its ramifications.

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Toronto Seizes Greatness

The announcement this week of an effort spearheaded by art collector and impresario David Mirvish, international architect Frank Gehry and innovative developer Peter Kofman to provide Toronto with a novel vertical, arts-based downtown residential complex is potentially a big step in Toronto’s quest to vault itself into the front ranks of the world’s cities — where it has sometimes prematurely claimed to belong. Whether Canadians from other centres like it or not, Toronto is now and will remain the comparative metropolis of the country, having surged past Montreal after that city entered into a sustained suicide attempt based on separatist agitation and accompanying racial and cultural discrimination.