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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Toronto Museum Project stalled

A hat tip to a QQL reader who spotted this on BQNA's website

We wrote about the Malting Silos recently, here's an update on the touted museum project.

From Councillor Vaughan's office:

The Toronto Preservation Board will be considering a report at its meeting on Friday March 27 about the Canada Malting Silos. The meeting will be taking place at Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen Street West, 2nd Floor, Committee Room 4 at 2:00pm. This report will also be considered by the Toronto and East York Community Council at its meeting to be held on April 21, 2009.

Given the current financial situation, plans for the Toronto Museum Project are no longer moving forward. Councillor Vaughan can provide updates to the neighbourhood on this matter at the April public forum. With this situation, the future of the Canada Malting Silos need to be considered by the city, particularly in light of their deteriorating conditions and work that needs to be done to ensure that they do not pose a safety risk to pedestrians in the area. There are financial constraints on this but Councillor Vaughan is interested in looking at ways of preserving the elements with heritage value within these constraints.

The report is available online here:
http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2009/pb/bgrd/backgroundfile-19569.pdf

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