"I wouldn't call it an island, but we may look at putting fill in until we can put a convention centre. You go in there and you're going up, you're going down, you're going up, you're going across the road. That's unacceptable. We're losing a massive amount of business. So we'll build something, just something out of this world."
"It will be unlike any other location in the entire world. The new convention centre Ford envisions would be nearly three times the size of the current one. He said the new convention centre could cost a few billion dollars and would be some two million square feet in size."
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is proposing a major waterfront development project involving the construction of a new convention centre in Toronto. He has criticized the existing Metro Toronto Convention Centre as poorly designed, citing confusing layouts and excessive escalators that create an inefficient visitor experience. Ford estimates the new facility would cost several billion dollars and span approximately two million square feet, nearly triple the size of the current centre. The proposal includes potential waterfront infill sites to accommodate the project. Ford argues Toronto is losing significant convention business due to the current facility's inadequacies and believes a world-class new convention centre would attract major events and economic benefits to the city.
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