/R E P E A T -- Media Advisory - Re-thinking Ontario Place recommendations to be released at Innis Town Hall Feb. 4/

TORONTO, Feb. 3, 2013 /CNW/ - The recommendations of a blue-chip group of urban planners, design and landscape architects and others on the future of Ontario Place will be released at a public meeting at Innis Town Hall on Feb. 4.

The recommendations are the result of a one-day 'design charrette' held Dec. 1 which featured contributors that included urban planner Ken Greenberg, impresario David Mirvish, internationally-renowned architect Tarek El-Khatib and Ontario Place's founding architect, Eberhard Zeidler.

The design charette was organized in response to the recommendations of a special advisory panel, chaired by former MPP John Tory, which called for the development of condominiums and a hotel-resort on the site of Ontario Place.

Participants at the December gathering unanimously rejected the idea of a casino on the site of the adjacent Exhibition Place, saying the future of Ontario Place must be tied to the future of Exhibition Place.

December's design charrette and the Feb. 4 Innis Town Hall presentation have been organized by the Martin Prosperity Institute (University of Toronto), the Design Industry Advisory Committee and the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU).

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Re-thinking Ontario Place recommendations to be released Feb. 4 at Innis Town Hall

Date:					Monday Feb. 4
Time:					6:30 p.m.
Location:					Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto
					2 Sussex Ave., Toronto

SOURCE: OPSEU

Laurie Miller

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