Ontario Place closing down

briancanada3 · #1 Posted: **Mar 9, 2012, 12:41 AM**

I noticed nothing about Ontario Place shutting down, I thought something would be mentioned about it because that would be great land for a casino or a whole new entertainment area

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/...ture-grows-dim

I have only been to Ontario Place a couple times and found it boring to be honest. If the city or province (or both) did a renovation maybe we could have a new casino complex and maybe a hotel to go with it.

What do you guys on the board think?

Ramako · #2 Posted: **Jul 26, 2012, 5:03 PM**

The John Tory report was released today: http://www.mtc.gov.on.ca/en/ontariop...eport_2012.pdf

Here's the article from the Star: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/p...eased-thursday

Nothing too dramatic. Lots of parkland. I'm not too hot on the idea of a residential area at Ontario Place though.

P. Alouishous · #3 Posted: **Jul 28, 2012, 2:52 PM**

I think a park is the best use of that land. If new condos are restricted to no more than 10 - 15% of the the land (which they recommended in John Tory's report) I'm ok with it. You need some people living down there for the park to get consistent use, rather than relying on people coming in from other areas. They also want to keep the cinesphere and those pod things, so not sure what they'll be used for. Cinesphere could become a theatre and maybe some restaurants in the pods or some kind of nightlife spot like The Docks?