ADRM
Senior Member
If I read the report correctly, $190M is the estimated cost of bringing the building up to the point where you could then build it out into the more exciting uses, and the museum itself would also ; "These are necessary investments regardless of any new tenanting option" is the phrasing used. I'm interested to hear the proposed funding plan, especially in the frame of RDP (if it is to proceed to next stages).
Separately, option 3 begs the Museum of Toronto at about 55K sq. ft.; by way of comparison, the Gardiner holds a little less than 50K sq. ft., so we're looking at a big enough space to do something special. The assumptions chart about space breakdown is interesting, too:
One nice-to-have of mine would be an accurate, up-to-date, and continuously updated scale model of the city (the one in City Hall is super out-of-date and kind of falling apart, but nonetheless always attracts folks who wander into the lobby). There's a really amazing one in the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center:
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Separately, option 3 begs the Museum of Toronto at about 55K sq. ft.; by way of comparison, the Gardiner holds a little less than 50K sq. ft., so we're looking at a big enough space to do something special. The assumptions chart about space breakdown is interesting, too:
One nice-to-have of mine would be an accurate, up-to-date, and continuously updated scale model of the city (the one in City Hall is super out-of-date and kind of falling apart, but nonetheless always attracts folks who wander into the lobby). There's a really amazing one in the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center:
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