Ford to make announcement after hinting the Science Centre will be moved to Ontario Place grounds
CBC
Premier Doug Ford is set to hold a news conference Tuesday, days after after signalling his government would soon announce that the Science Centre will be moved to the Ontario Place grounds.
Ford is scheduled to speak at 1 p.m. along Minister of Infrastructure Kinga Surma and Neil Lumsden, minister of tourism, culture and sport.
You can watch the news conference live in this story.
Last Thursday, Ford strongly suggested that the province intends to move the aging Ontario Science Centre to the Ontario Place grounds on the Toronto waterfront — a site that itself is undergoing a controversial redevelopment process.
Ford signified that an official announcement would be coming this week.
"I think it's a fabulous idea and there is a tremendous opportunity," he said at the time.
First opened in 1969, the Science Centre currently sits on about 90 acres of largely ravine land at the corner of Eglinton Avenue East and Don Mills Road in northeast Toronto. It is slated as one of the terminal stations of the Ontario Line, a 15.6-km subway line that would run from Ontario Place in the west to the Science Centre in the east.
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