Posted on 12/12/03
Thinking big on the waterfront
When an early sketch for the $17-billion makeover of Toronto's lakeshore was unveiled last year, the immense real estate scheme was variously denounced as an exorbitant boondoggle, a dim-bulb idea, and a juggernaut rolling forward (in the words of Globe and Mail columnist John Barber) under "a hundredweight of bureaucrats equipped with vague powers, expensive tastes and ominously open-ended work plans."
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