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I'm curious if any education institutions look into expanding their spaces as part of this future project. The block along Edward Street, between Elizabeth and Chestnut would also be opened up towards redevelopment. I had a friend who years interpreted the Coach Terminal lands in his graduate thesis as having potential for collaborative learning spaces for U of T, Ryerson, and OCADU students.
Interesting notion.
I'm inclined to think Ryerson would not want to go west of Bay Street; it's also a fair reach for OCAD.
All 3 campuses already sprawl.
With the exception of Medical (and related) sciences, I'm not sure it makes sense for U of T to grow its academic buildings off-campus.
U of T also just committed to the enhancement/partial replacement of Med Sci at its current location.
I always assumed when the Faculty of Dentistry decided it needed to replace its aging space in that area that it would relocate back towards main campus.
In respect of the above, I thought the Dentistry site might end up as off-campus housing; given that U of T has that even further south, just behind City Hall; and remains short of what it needs.
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Expanding the research facilities of hospital row could certainly be argued for; though UHN continues to have a fair bit of space on Elizabeth, in the form of open space on the west side, and both surface parking and a parking garage to the east.
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Hmmm, the floor plate potential of the non-heritage portion of the bus terminal (main complex) is almost 25000ft2; that would have strong institutional and commercial appeal.
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Edit to add, in light of my comments above, I decided to measure the floor area of the Dentistry complex............it's 54000ft2! Wow. I've walked past it a bunch of times, I never really perceived the scale of it!