Parking lot for Ontario Place spa could cost $800 million and people are not having it

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Parking lot for Ontario Place spa could cost $800 million and people are not having it
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The people of Toronto have made it quite clear that they're not at all keen on Premier Doug Ford handing a chunk of Ontario Place to an Austria-bas...

The people of Toronto have made it quite clear that they're not at all keen on Premier Doug Ford handing a chunk of Ontario Place to an Austria-based private spa brand, but it's the parking garage required for said spa that has become the cherry on top of the sh** cake.that we first found out about the forthcoming lot, when the NDP shared a 2.

Since that initial info was shared, more tidbits keep emerging, with some new revelations this last week that have people seemingly more up in arms than ever. Can we just take a sec to think about what that $800 Million could do for the majority of Ontarians that probably wouldn't be able to afford going to the Therme Spa?, largely due to costs — costs that, at this point, have somehow ballooned up to an estimated $800 million, again out of the public's pockets despite Ford earlier promising no public money was involved in the deal.

"We haven't confirmed the three underground parking because it costs so much to build underground," he told reporters. Unfortunately, this would not have been our issue if the Province hadn't contractually obligated itself to provide parking for Therme within 650 m of the site, which it seems that Fordbacked out of the revitalization early on, leaving only the spa and the revamped Budweiser Stage to justify the large parkade.

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