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catcher_of_cats said:
The development of a lakeside satellite campus for landlocked George Brown College is expected to be announced today by Waterfront Toronto, with Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, Energy and Infrastructure Minister George Smitherman and Toronto Mayor David Miller due to attend.
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Landlocked? George Brown College requires access to the sea?
 
Press Release:

NEW JOBS, NEW WATERFRONT
McGuinty Government Invests In Training For New Careers

Ontario is helping Ontario colleges meet the growing demand for workers in health sciences and skilled trades. The province will invest $61.5 million in George Brown College, creating up to 4,000 new spots for more students.

The funding will help build a new waterfront campus on land east of Jarvis Street and expand two other campuses in Toronto. The new health sciences centre will feature the latest technology and almost 1,300 new nurses will be trained by 2015. Construction of the campus will create about 880 jobs.

The Casa Loma and St. James campuses will provide more apprenticeship spaces and other training programs in skilled trades. Students will learn high-demand skilled trades such as carpentry, industrial and electrical technologies and heating, ventilation and air conditioning.

The funding is subject to the City of Toronto approving George Brown’s waterfront expansion.

This funding is part of the government’s three-year $1.5-billion Skills to Jobs Action Plan.

QUOTES

“Investing in a new campus for George Brown will create jobs — now and in the future. Our students will graduate with the best training anywhere,†said Premier Dalton McGuinty.

“This investment will help us meet the demand for highly skilled workers in Ontario, which will strengthen our economy and help improve everyone’s quality of life,†said George Smitherman, MPP for Toronto Centre. “This is an example of fantastic ‘city building’ — getting much needed extra post-secondary school space while also revitalizing Toronto’s waterfront.â€

QUICK FACTS

  • George Brown College currently operates out of three campuses in downtown Toronto, serving about 14,000 full-time students and 50,000 continuing education students.
  • Since 2002-03, the Ontario government has invested more than $38 million in George Brown to upgrade equipment, improve and build more campus space.
  • About 4,000 new nurses will graduate in 2008. Ontario’s Nursing Graduate Guarantee means every one of them will have the opportunity to obtain a full-time job.
 
i'd even go as far as saying really vague. i guess we won't be seeing anything really interesting here with that kind of massing. :(
 
From the Globe:

George Brown to get new waterfront campus
Site to open in 2011 for health-science students, with $90-million main building and $100-million residence and athletic centre

JENNIFER LEWINGTON

CITY HALL BUREAU CHIEF; With reports from Elizabeth Church and Karen Howlett

July 9, 2008

A new college campus at the water's edge, announced yesterday by Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, is seen as the key to unlock the potential of Toronto's long-dormant east-end waterfront.

The $190-million complex for George Brown College - with $61-million pledged by the Premier - is the biggest expansion in the 40-year history of the downtown school.

But the new campus, expected to open in the fall of 2011 to health-science students, is significant for the boost it gives to revitalizing publicly owned land in East Bayfront, a 22-hectare site south of Queen's Quay between Jarvis and Parliament Streets.

"The vision of the waterfront is not just a collection of condominiums," said Toronto Mayor David Miller, a member of the board of Waterfront Toronto, the public agency of the city, province and federal government spearheading waterfront renewal. "It is a real, vibrant, thriving economic zone in the city. None of that could happen, at its best, without an education institution."

For the McGuinty government, the waterfront project is a tool to help repair the province's sagging economy.

This year's provincial budget earmarked $2.5-billion in one-time funding for infrastructure projects and skills training, including for workers who have lost their jobs in the manufacturing sector.

Mr. McGuinty said the George Brown project will help the province build on its greatest strength - the skills and education of Ontarians - and generate 880 construction jobs.

Speaking to an audience seated under a canopy at the future site of the college, the Premier said there was comfort to be found in the proximity to Lake Ontario.

"That suits this announcement just fine," he said. "We could use a little comfort in the face of strong economic winds that are blowing across North America."

The project is one of what is expected to be a series of postsecondary capital projects in line for funding under a new provincial infrastructure plan.

Ontario colleges and universities have been asked to submit proposals to the province for consideration as part of a 10-year, $60-billion initiative, said a source familiar with the process. Those proposals are being reviewed in light of the government's emphasis on growth through innovation, the source added.

For fast-growing George Brown, the new $90-million campus for up to 4,000 students and an adjacent $100-million building for student housing and an athletic centre would be only 10 minutes away from its main site on King Street East.

"It is opportunistic," college president Anne Sado said of the deal, a proposed 99-year lease of city land that is expected to win council approval in September. "We are landlocked and we don't have any space to grow."

In addition to the provincial funds, the college has earmarked $15-million and expects to do fundraising for the remaining $14-million for the campus. The $100-million residence and athletic centre is expected to involve private investors.

Waterfront Toronto has other projects under way in East Bay Front.

Immediately east of the new campus, a $130-million office complex is under construction for the headquarters of Corus Entertainment, with 1,000 jobs.

"We're saying to the development community, 'Come on in, you are not pioneers,' " said John Campbell, CEO of Waterfront Toronto, which has been in talks with George Brown for two years. "There will be an established community here."

Students living and studying at the water's edge will bring vitality year-round to the waterfront, said Ontario Energy and Infrastructure Minister George Smitherman, whose downtown riding includes the new campus.

"Lots of people talk about waterfront in the context of parks, but we know that in our environment you are not always drawn to the water's edge by the weather."

*****

In the works

A George Brown College waterfront campus, announced yesterday, is part of a $3-billion redevelopment of the 22-hectare East Bayfront district. Other Waterfront Toronto projects:

First Waterfront Place, 2010: A $130-million office complex for the headquarters of Corus Entertainment, Jarvis Street and Queen's Quay.

Partners sought: The agency is seeking private-sector partners for two parcels of publicly owned land between Sherbourne and Parliament Streets, south of Queen's Quay. It would be developed for residential and commercial uses, between 2012-18.

Sherbourne Park: A 1.5-hectare park north and south of Queen's Quay, 2010.

Sugar Beach: A $4-million park at the Jarvis Street slip.

Development : 6,000 housing units and 230,000 square metres of commercial and employment space, over the next decade.

Jennifer Lewington
 
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