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From: Architexturez-IN <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:09:23 +0530
The Aga Khan Council for Canada was granted the opportunity to fill some
rather large shoes yesterday as the North York community council
unanimously voted against designating a former Bata headquarters
building as a heritage site.
Perhaps the Aga Khan knows something we don't. Why else would the
spiritual leader of the world's 15 million Ismaili Muslims have chosen a
7-hectare site near Don Mills and Eglinton to build his $200 million
community centre/cultural campus?
Most Torontonians would have dismissed that location without a second
thought; after all Wynford Dr., where the old Bata and Shell corporate
sites were located, is more a drive-by corner than a destination.
cont'd....
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