rdaner
Senior Member
So they have announced that a performing arts centre is being built at VMC. Great! The partner is QuadReal and this is there property here so I am guessing it will go here. News to me.
Vaughan VMC Performing & Cultural Arts Centre | ?m | ?s | City of Vaughan | Hariri Pontarini
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New performing and cultural arts centre coming to Vaughan | City of Vaughan
The City of Vaughan is setting the stage for our next act! Today, during a special signing ceremony, the City and QuadReal Property Group (QuadReal) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to guide planning for a state-of-the-art performing and cultural arts centre in the Vaughan...
www.vaughan.ca
The City of Vaughan and Quadreal have entered into a MOU for this project.
Below are the conceptual designs prepared by Hariri Pontarini Architects, a "park pavilion" concept and an "integrated podium" concept:
Conceptual program designs:
Additional project info can be found here.
abovegrade
Active Member
Really great. Even though the designs aren’t Gaudi, this really promotes the viability of suburbs in the GTA and North America as distinct cities with their own amenities and cultural resources. It’s importance for Vaughan is underplayed.
sixrings
Senior Member
I keep being told that Mississauga who has its own art centre, art gallery, main library and civic space (celebration square) is a cultural gutter. Torontonians have high standards despite half of them not ever leaving their own houses. But I agree with you.
ericmacm
Active Member
Love to see Vaughan getting real city amenities like a performing arts venue. My preference is for the “park pavilion” concept since there will be more than enough towers surrounding this in the future.
Hope Vaughan continues down this path of investing in amenities like this. I’d love to see a modest-sized arena in VMC in the future.
Hope Vaughan continues down this path of investing in amenities like this. I’d love to see a modest-sized arena in VMC in the future.
marcus_a_j
Senior Member
How about a grocery store that’s not in a Walmart for starters?
sixrings
Senior Member
Well MCC has a whole foods But it’s not a Pusateri’s,so that’s a cultural fail.
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Undead
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These amenities are not mutually exclusive. A robust city centre needs both.
ProjectEnd
Superstar
With the continued gravitation of the 'city centre' down to VMC, the decision to replace City Hall and the central library up in Maple is that much more confusing...
abovegrade
Active Member
Not to open a can of worms, but i'd argue that Torontonians love to grumble and criticise, but only because they are so well travelled... it's a big-city thing. Toronto is a pretty wealthy city and has pretty great connections to Europe and such, so I found the reclusive stereotype isn't true. Quite the opposite. In fact, the issue is that these galleries in the suburbs don't get enough funding and PR, thus the programming and outreach often feels a bit provincial and lacking in experimentation. But I am sure there are great works, and i'm sure Torontonians would be pleasantly surprised for all we like to moan about.
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sixrings
Senior Member
For the record I meant the torontonians that do not even visit their own city. There’s countless torontonians which never go to places like the ROM,AGM and places like CN Tower. For sure torontonians travel. I’m asking for all the hoopla that the suburbs are a cultural wasteland how many torontonians are actually cultured within their own city. But there’s differences in Toronto. There’s the south of bloor crowd which take the cake for thinking you get a nose bleed if you hit st Claire.
sixrings
Senior Member
If Toronto gets 9 million visitors each year but the ROM only gets 1.3 millions visits then how many were actually Torontonians. If the AGO gets 1 million visits a year how many are Torontonians? If the CN tower attracts 2 Million visitors then how many were Torontonians?
innsertnamehere
Superstar
It was equally confusing back in 2007-2009 when it was happening and it was clear that VMC would be the preferred location over the long term.
Honestly - I think Vaughan just cheaped out since they already owned the land up there. Why spend the money to buy high-density designated lands when you can build it at Major Mack on free land?
The one consolation is that it's at least walking distance from a GO station so it' somewhat transit accessible.
innsertnamehere
Superstar
It'll come. the population in VMC isn't high enough to have an urban-format grocery yet, especially with Walmart siphoning off a good chunk of the market already.
sixrings
Senior Member
No more science centre. No more Ontario Place. Ed mirvish theatres closing. Bell light box having issues. Olivia chow begging people to go back to work so the rest of the businesses don’t die. Real cultural victories toronotonians are clinging too.