#3 College Park Story - Sidebars that didn't make it into print





On Saturday November 8th, the Toronto Star ran a major feature I wrote about the downtown Toronto city block of College Park. The 3-page story appeared on the cover of the Condo section. There was no room to place the attached sidebar. The actual article appears above (scroll up)

Cutline: artist's drawing of an Aura condo living room

Three new levels of government will be created when the Aura is built!

Condo unit owners of almost 1,000 suites and the owners of the Podium retail floors must belong to self-governing condominium associations:

• Three condo associations based on floor location will be created
• One condo association for the retail floors up to the 4th floor
• Second condo association for floors 5 to 55
• Third condo association for floors 56 and up.

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