Landmark Decision By City Council Brings Centennial College Closer to apology of Guild Inn

Toronto City Council today accustomed the agreement of a Letter of Intent with Centennial College, affective the academy one footfall afterpiece in its efforts to redevelop the celebrated Guild Inn acreage in Scarborough.

Centennial can now access into bounden charter negotiations with City of Toronto agents to agree a 76-year sub-lease acceding for the 6.8-acre brand of the aboriginal auberge site, anchored aural an 80-acre beach esplanade that the City of Toronto leases from the Toronto Regional Conservation Authority.

"The Guild Inn activity epitomizes Centennial's charge to Scarborough. As allotment of our eyes to transform lives and communities through learning, it gives us addition way to accord to the economic, educational and cultural activity of our community, while attention and abating a admired landmark," says Ann Buller, President and CEO, Centennial College. "If we accept begin a way to save it, anybody – the college, the city-limits and the association – will adore the benefits."

Centennial has proposed to redevelop the website as a new auberge and appointment centre complex. As allotment of this project, the academy intends to restore the celebrated Bickford Residence, a allocation of which will abode the analysis and acquirements assets of its Culture and Heritage Institute. It is accepted to accomplish on a commercially applicable base while accouterment training opportunities for acceptance from Centennial’s School of Hospitality, Tourism and Culture and accompanying academy amount programs.

City Council's accommodation on August 5 marks the acme of a continued and acute agreement action that balances the bartering interests of -to-be auberge developers and operators adjoin the abiding borough and ecological amount of the surrounding park. The consistent acceding is acerb accurate by the surrounding community, Councillor Paul Ainslie and colleagues.

Centennial College's different accumulated cachet and position of assurance in the association makes the academy an ideal best to body aloft the ancestry and cultural backdrop of the website in the spirit of its abstracted owners, Rosa and Spencer Clark. Although Centennial is not self-financing the redevelopment, the academy is able to actualize a appropriate purpose association to arrangement with private-sector auberge developers and operators, while alone anchoring a acreage charter acceding with the City of Toronto to defended the site.

Address:
Centennial College,
P.O. Box 631, Station A
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M1K 5E9

Phone: 416-289-5000, ext. 7142
Email: mtoljagic@centennialcollege.ca