There is a bigger game plan and this could play into it. The province wants to provide less funding to post secondaries but acknowledge the importance of their role. They want to commercialize research and innovation. Having synergies and proximity is key.
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"Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice. Carl Spackler, 1980
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that just so happens to be an Oxford property. The question is just how tall...where and what that would mean to an overall reno given the place is a clfk right now.
as someone who lives in the core...my personal opinion is it needs a complete overhaul. An overhaul including a tower has been the subject of much discussion on C2E for years and years. It won't mean much if they don't spend some BIG $$ - this revamp needs at least $250M to do much of anything and more $$$ to create great space to make it a destination mall. That excludes the Tower. The reality is Oxford have in the past see this as a contiguous mall...and its not working. Perhaps if they "reimagine" this and treat it as 2 separate properties - business centre on East side and retail / big food court on West side it may work better. I guess time will tell.
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