BREAKING: Revitalized Ontario Place will include outdoor adventure park, indoor spa and water park
The iconic attraction once drew more than two million people a year to Toronto’s waterfront but it was decommissioned in 2012 amid declining attendance and falling revenues.
But Ford scrapped those plans when he assumed office and launched a closed-door process to identify private sector partners to help develop the site instead. Écorécréo, which operates a number of aerial adventure courses in Quebec, will be tapped with developing a “family friendly adventure park” on a plot of land just north of the existing Cinesphere.The final piece of the redevelopment will be led by Live Nation and will see significant enhancements made to the existing Budweiser Stage concert facility.
It gave prospective developers few constraints other than requiring that their proposals be for a year-round site and not include plans for residential development or a casino.
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