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ford convention center aside. This feels like it would require a big scaledown of area for the EX. same with the new hotel.
There will be a point where the ex doesnt make sense anymore right?
 
generalcanada said:
ford convention center aside. This feels like it would require a big scaledown of area for the EX. same with the new hotel.
There will be a point where the ex doesnt make sense anymore right?
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All the PR around this announcement has been pretty insistent that these plans are designed to make sure the CNE can continue operating.
 
milkycontent said:
All the PR around this announcement has been pretty insistent that these plans are designed to make sure the CNE can continue operating.
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They say there will be no decrease in CNE's footprint either, and that includes the new hotel & entertainment centre construction. Although, with most of the Better Living Centre demolished, The Farm will need to find a new home or be downsized considerably. Or maybe it will be set up in the park that replaces it using tents.
 
kotsy said:
They say there will be no decrease in CNE's footprint either, and that includes the new hotel & entertainment centre construction. Although, with most of the Better Living Centre demolished, The Farm will need to find a new home or be downsized considerably. Or maybe it will be set up in the park that replaces it using tents.
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They used to have the Farm in the Automotive Building...
 
kotsy said:
That could easily be done again since it's not used by the CNE currently.
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Not really.

It is a conference centre now. I used to work there back in the day and fondly remember how we accidentally set the building on fire during a G20 finance ministers meeting.

It is all carpet and divided into different rooms on both floors with service corridors. You cannot put livestock in there without ruining everything.

You could put it in the Enercare Centre, Horse Palace or Industrial Annex where the Royal is held every year.
 
Richard White said:
Not really.

It is a conference centre now. I used to work there back in the day and fondly remember how we accidentally set the building on fire during a G20 finance ministers meeting.

It is all carpet and divided into different rooms on both floors with service corridors. You cannot put livestock in there without ruining everything.

You could put it in the Enercare Centre, Horse Palace or Industrial Annex where the Royal is held every year.
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Wrong time of the year. You have the Royal as a celebration of Agriculture. If anything, you could work on more of a farming experience as a permanent exhibition in some of the accessible urban parks that were farms. I.e Brontë PP to the west and Rouge to the east. Or the Country Heritage Site in Milton.
 
kotsy said:
... making the bandshell area easier to be utilized for events including new plug-and-play sound that just needs to be connected to via bluetooth. He also mentioned possibly re-orienting the bandshell so that it faces the water, as there are always noise complaints from Parkdale & Liberty Village during concerts outside of the CNE...
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That might have been more about some kind of contractual arrangement with Toronto Event Centre (the Horticultural Building).
The rationale is that the Toronto Event Centre’s patio suffers from soundbleeding (i.e. music from the Bandshell interferes with the TEC’s patio programming).
... prior to the announced moratorium, ExPlace maintained that any event occurring on the Bandshell must be coordinated with TEC even though TEC has no lease rights to the Bandshell whatsoever. TEC sought fees of over $37,000 per evening to “rent” its facility as a condition precedent to providing its consent. In effect, ExPlace granted TEC a veto over Bandshell year-round programming.
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There was also mention of high costs mandated by union agreements, which I've also read as the reason given for there not being any real concert events (other than football half-time things) at BMO Field after the one there in 2007.
https://archive.ph/RZn60
... plan to turn BMO Field into a major concert venue.
This is not practical now, since the facility is owned by the city and covered by a union agreement with the workers at BMO, from ushers to concession workers to the takedown crews.
According to Richard Peddie, the wages called for in the union agreement add $100,000 to the cost of every event compared with the other venues in the city.
This means concert promoters shun BMO ...
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Bandshell Park should be used far more than it has been in recent years.
It should have all the type of things that have been at Woodbine Park, like rib fests, Food Truck Festival, Woofstock, Canada Day tribute bands fest, Beaches Jazz Festival, etc.

SubHuman said:
"Why is The Bandshell not used from May through October? Why only 18 days during the CNE?” --
I thought I recalled seeing something there several years ago earlier in the summer, weeks before the CNE opened...
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Richard White said:
You are probably thinking the Chin Bikini Contest. A friend of mine won it many years ago when it was held there.
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No, it was the Beer Festival 11 years ago.
It sounds like the company behind it has now been assigned into bankruptcy.
 
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