The ministry in charge of Ontario Place redevelopment seems determined to build a new parking lot for spa customers and other visitors above ground, citing potentially massive costs of burying it near Lake Ontario, says the head of the agency that runs the Ex.
Darrell Brown, CEO of the Canadian National Exhibition Association (CNEA), said a senior Infrastructure Ontario official told him in a meeting this month, about the prospect of the controversial garage being built at Exhibition Place rather than Ontario Place that “it’s terribly expensive to build underground parking” and that the provincial government “doesn’t have the money for this.”
Even with construction underway at the waterfront site, the location, size, cost and form of the parking garage remain undecided.