unimaginative2
Senior Member
Interesting information about all the different schools in the Toronto public board.
http://www.nationalpost.com/documents/Enrolment0708.pdf
http://www.nationalpost.com/documents/Enrolment0708.pdf
Might wanna be careful about closing schools and selling off real estate. Sure, the kids have all left some areas, and only empty nesters remain, but they will be replaced by new young people, and new baby booms will wash over these gentrifying areas. Won't be so easy to buy up real estate and build new schools after this happens, and certainly wouldn't make economic sense.
Perhaps some longer-term planning and analysis is called for here.
Edit: Prometheus beat me to the punch with the same point.Great minds...
Observer,
I've also wondered about the Bickford centre. I've always thought that they should sell the Bloor street side for redevelopment into mid-rise / mixed use buildings facing Christie-pits and use the proceeds to re-invest in the centre. As it stands that property provides an aweful deadening effect for pedestrian traffic and street vitality.
Tell me about it - that place used to horrify me as a small child whenever we drove past it in my parents car. I thought it was a penitentiary! What I'd love to know is why so many schools built between the 50's and 70's are so ugly and ominous looking. I think the worst one of them all is Don Bosco on Islington, north of Dixon.