Ontario awarded nearly $1 million in contracts to various companies to write a business case on moving the Ontario Science Centre to Ontario Place on Toronto's waterfront, The Canadian Press has learned.
Liberal critic Adil Shamji, whose riding is home to the science centre, said it is "outrageous" that Premier Doug Ford spent $1 million of public money on consultants "to tell him what he wanted to hear." “Securing a publicly owned cultural anchor, such as the OSC, could be an important addition to counter negative perceptions of the commercialization and privatization of this unique waterfront public asset,” the consultants wrote in the business case.
Ford agreed in a deal with the City of Toronto this year to consider moving the parking to nearby Exhibition Place, but no decision has yet been made. The 2023 business case reached the same financial conclusion as a business case completed in 2016, the auditor general said. At that time, the science centre board said that due to growing capital needs, the status quo wasn't an option. It proposed instead rebuilding at its current site, but no action was taken on any of the options, the auditor general said.
As part of the business case, Pinchin Engineering led a building condition assessment with a contract of $448,900. Ernst & Young led an economic and fiscal impact analysis with a contract of $276,000. Lord Cultural Resources completed an Ontario Science Centre relocation environmental scan, plans for a relocated science centre, revised attendance projections, and a report on "revenue and cost reduction opportunities and benefits of relocation" with a contract of $116,175.
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