The Ford government has awarded a $198-million contract for a parking garage at Ontario Place
It will include 3,500 parking spots and 680 electric vehicle charging stations
Ontario’s Minister of Tourism, Culture and Gaming, Stan Cho, has shared the provincial government’s renderings for a parking garage at Ontario Place, the latest in a long series of grand and expensive plans for the waterfront area.
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The parking garage will include 3,500 spots, with 680 electric vehicle charging stations, up to 100 bicycle parking spaces and a bus pick-up and drop-off area. It’ll generate $60 million in revenue each year, according to the government, and to build, will cost taxpayers $198 million.
The contract for the above-ground, five-storey parking structure was awarded to Pomerleau Inc. as construction lead, with Arcadis Professional Services as the design lead. The new parking garage will go where the current parking garage already is, south of Lake Shore Boulevard West.
“Today’s contract award reaffirms our government’s position, under the leadership of Premier Ford, that this parking garage, which will produce revenue for the province, can and will be built at a cost that is reasonable and respectful to taxpayers,” Cho said in a statement.
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
