Sunday, January 12, 2020

Is the Ontario government selling the former Summerhill train station?

A provincial Crown corporation called the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) operates out of the former Summerhill train station, located at 10 Scrivener. It is a heritage property protected by Part 1V of the Ontario Heritage Act. A few years ago the Ontario government sold an LCBO property on LakeShore Boulevard in Toronto:
The 11-acre LCBO Head Office and auxiliary buildings are located on 55 LakeShore Boulevard East.

The former CPR train station has a tower modeled after St. Mark's Campanile in the Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy. St. Mark's Campanile was a prominent feature in the 1955 Katharine Hepburn/Rossano Brazzi movie "Summertime." 
Ontario government properties are privatized via a Crown corporation called the Ontario Realty Corporation/Infrastructure Ontario. ORC holdings that are currently on the market or already divested:
Rockwood Hospital, Kingston.(for sale right now.)
Bowmanville POW Camp.
Rideau Regional Centre, Smiths Falls.
London Psychiatric Hospital.
The Hearn OPG Station, 440 Unwin, Toronto.(now)
Perth Jail
Windsor Jail
Former Guelph Correctional Centre
305 Bremner Avenue, Toronto - A Rogers Centre parking lot. (now)
27 Grosvenor Street, Toronto and 26 Grenville Avenue, Toronto.
Spadina Corridor - 203 Ava Road, Toronto. (now.)
Spadina Corridor Rear Residential Lands, Toronto - 24 (now.)
Spadina Corridor-Spadina Road Properties - 17. (now.)
(Information is from the Infrastructure Ontario website - 243 surplus properties for sale.)
















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