Title - Foundry Facts

  • Siteplan page has been updated

    Plan submitted to the City on the 18th of April. Click here for more

  • Proposed Wal-Mart has supporters

    Charie Araullo is on maternity leave from her sales job and tending to her 4-month-old at home. She'd like to see a Wal-Mart in Leslieville.... Download (PDF)

  • "Big Box" myth vs. reality

    The official site plans, filed by the developer SmartCentres with the city on Friday, indicate that what is planned is far from the suburban big-box outlets that Fletcher has deemed an "anathema."... Download (PDF)

  • John Barber says...

    The City should have dedicated bicycle path long ago... Download (PDF)

  • Architect gives retail project thumbs up after seeing for himself

    A prominent Canadian architect has decided to back a controversial development in the old east-end neighbourhood of Leslieville, saying that federal NDP Leader Jack Layton misled him into opposing it... Download (PDF)

  • Leslieville Divided Over SmartCentre

    Leslieville resident Tammy Hines lives a block and a half from the site and wants more retail options,especially a Wal-Mart... Download (PDF)

  • Province will NOT declare Public Interest

    Legislative Assembly of Ontario official records 09-04-2008 Download (PDF)

  • Letter from Jack Diamond to Jack Layton (April 3 2008)

    The impression I had from our telephone conversation about the development on Eastern Avenue and Lakeshore Boulevard was of a large box store surrounded by surface parking. I have now had the opportunity to see the plans, and they differ in several important respects... Download (PDF)

  • LesLieville mall not "big-box" project, developers say

    Plans the company has submitted to the Ontario Municipal Board, where the fight has ended up, show a red-brick, two - or three-storey, mixed use development on the east side of Pape Avenue between Eastern Avenue and Lake Shore Boulevard, with two sets of buildings divided by a pedestrian mall... Download (PDF)

  • The Egg-cellent Easter Egg Hunt

    The Foundry District sponsored an afternoon of non-stop action that had children jumping into various organized games, face-painting activities,and, of course, an Easter egg hunt... Download (PDF)

  • TABIA Withdraws From Hearing

    Please be advised that at its regularly scheduled Board of Directors meeting on Wednesday February 20th, 2008 and subsequent internal correspondence & communications the TABIA board of directors agreed to cease their participation in the above noted hearing and as such request permission from the board to fully withdraw, including any and all status from said case, thus we wont make any claims as to impact... Download (PDF)