11-17-2019, 01:01 PM
(11-17-2019, 12:05 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(11-17-2019, 11:57 AM)westwardloo Wrote: A bit unrealated, but if a city the size of thunder bay with a shrinking population and economy can build a new facility for the arts, the region should be able to handle it.
$5M in funding from the city.
$5M from the province.
$11M from the federal government
$12M from donors.
So the city is contributing only about 15%. Plus possibly the land.
In any case, this is a long-established gallery with a large collection of native art. If we built a new gallery like this in Kitchener, I suspect it would have a lot of empty space.
I was going to bring out the same thing. Those smaller cities in Northern Ontario get so much more help than the cities in Southern Ontario.
Secondly, the price tag up north is $33M, I think down here it would be a lot more, as labour is a premium and everyone is trying to make a tidy profit - so perhaps closer to $50M (this includes inflated land costs).
I think Kitchener could easily do $10M and could easily get $15M from donors -- but the province we'd be lucky to get $2M from Ontario and maybe $3M from the Feds, so it would leave us short by $20M.