As reported on by the
National Post, George Brown College broke ground this month on the $175-million Waterfront Campus that will go up at the foot of Sherbourne Street, south of Queens Quay. When completed the campus is expected to liven up the waterfront by bringing a diversity of uses (i.e food, study space, workout facilities) into what would otherwise be a sea of condos.
"George Brown, using $61.5-million in provincial money, $30-million
from Ottawa, and its own money plus fundraising dollars, plans two
buildings totalling half a million square feet, on land the school will
lease from the City of Toronto."
"The first college building,
closest to Lake Ontario, will house nursing, dental, health and
wellness, gerontology and other programs."
The school wants to talk to the city about teaming up to design the
second building, which will house a gym -- open to the public evenings
and weekends -- along with, potentially, a community centre. A street,
known right now as Dockside Drive, will bisect the two buildings,
east-west."
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