370 Wallace Lands (Former Glidden site)
October 9, 2009 - 4:37pm — Scott D
This will now be on our radar and I will fill in some details here in the next day or so.
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370 Wallace Soil Remediation Complete
The latest from the people doing the soil remediation at the brownfield on Wallace. As per previous conversations the land owner Glidden can now sell the land to a developer. So far they have not wanted to tell who it is but there is a deal in place. This land is zoned as "employment lands" which in theory means the City has greater control over what will happen here. Number one, expect a new road from Ruskin to Macauley to Wallace. From Bio Genie:
"We are just finalizing countouring and seeding and will completely demobilize by the end of next week.
The project is complete and the site is decontaminated to residential standards.
Regards,
Philippe Gingras, P.Eng.
Project Manager
Biogenie S.R.D.C. Inc.
#136, 2301 Premier Way
Sherwood Park, Alberta"
Activity at 370 Wallace?
Does anyone know what is happening at the remediated field at 370 Wallace? There are quite a few vehicles parked there right now, including trailers etc. Has the remediation been completed and is this now going to be yet another construction site?
370 Wallace
Interesting. Wonder what's up there?
Remediation was completed about a year ago.
There are no building permits issued for the site (search here). Maybe they're just testing soil again? Or trimming the weeds, or doing other repairs? :)
Yeah, I wonder if it's
Yeah, I wonder if it's re-testing as well. It's just the camping trailers and BBQ that have peaked my curiosity. My dog sure misses the impromptu park..
370 Wallace
Looks like a movie crew to me.
I live on the other side of
I live on the other side of the bridge and my building was notified that a film crew will be filming in the area this upcoming Monday from about 4am to noon.
Yep, it's a film crew
Walking along the WTRP, I spoke (through the fence) to a guy milling about in the Glidden field with a take-out coffee in his hand - and yep, it's a film crew... He didn't say what the production is, but he said it's "a fairly large project." They're doing some filming in and around the Glidden property, he said, but will continue its lease of the field until the end of year - even if it's just a place to keep their picture vehicles/ props/ etc.
That's the gossip, anyway...
Steve Spielberg project for TV
They said that they will be filming in and around the storage facility, and there there will be at least one explosion this week. It is some sort of sci fi themed TV show.
Spielberg alien invasion pilot in Toronto
Movie gossip from hollywoodreporter.com:
By Etan Vlessing Share
Aug 24, 2009, 10:38 AM ET
TORONTO – Steven Spielberg's untitled alien-invasion drama pilot has landed in Canada for a two-week shoot.
The DreamWorks Television project for TNT about a group battling an occupying alien force is shooting in and around Hamilton, Ontario.
The Noah Wyle-starring pilot is executive produced by Spielberg, who last week was on location at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, along with Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey and writer Bob Rodat.
Carl Franklin is directing the pilot, with Cyrus Yavneh producing.
Photos can be found at hollywoodnorthreporter.com
This looks almost as good as
This looks almost as good as Relic Hunter. : )
370 Wallace
We were notified by the location manager for the movie that the old lot was purcahsed by a company called Somerset Homes.
There are a few companies that go by that name online but it looks like there is one that works in the area and does custom built townhomes.
Somerset Homes Wallace Owner and Donator
I talked with Somerset Homes and yes they own the land and plan to develop it.
http://www.somersethome.ca/
They refer to the address as 362 Wallace and I was told that they are basically waiting for the employment lands designation to be changed by a future council. Gee I wonder what candidate in the area they have donated to? Wasn't hard to find...
http://www.votetoronto.ca/financial/wards/2003T/Ward18_2003T.htm
Very interesting...
Thanks for posting that. It's definitely interesting that a residential developer is sitting on the land now. If the employment lands designation doesn't change anytime soon, that property might sit empty for a really long time. Admittedly, I really loved seeing it get used as an informal dog park....but hope it will get put to a good official use someday.
It would be interesting to know just how much lobbying Somerset Homes and Fred Guth have done with past, present, and future candidates about this land. I just hope that our elected representatives listen to the actual local residents more than developers / campaign contributors from outside of our area.
Note: Let's keep discussions on this forum focused on the 370 / 362 Wallace lands. OK to talk about lobbying etc. related to it, but more general discussions about candidates etc. should be in a different forum, e.g. the 2010 Municipal Election forum.
Donors to candidates....stay tuned
The bottom line is are you representing the residents (which includes business) or are you supporting other interests that while perfectly legal, are potentially at odds with the residents of a ward. I think people would be surprised by some of the publicly available information about that. It would certainly concern me if a councillor had a lot of ties to developers and related companies doing business in my ward, on my street. Wouldn't it concern you? I'll be posting some more interesting publicly available information about this very soon.
Please stay on-topic
This forum is about the 362/370 Wallace Ave. lands. If you want to discuss the 2010 municipal election, please post on that thread. And actually...since Giambrone isn't running for re-election, please post this stuff in a separate thread.
Thanks,
Vic
Why delete my Posts?
Yes I am fully aware Giambrone is not running for election. The point has to do with the need for constituents to question which sectors of support a candidate has. I see that Scot D's post criticizing Ana Bailo stands, but because I criticize the NDP and Kevin's links, you delete? Why the censorship?
Off-topic stuff
Yours isn't the only off-topic post I have deleted.
This forum is about the 370 Wallace lands, not about Giambrone's campaign contributions. If you want to talk about that, start another forum. Feel free to re-post if / where appropriate.
The posts about the developer and campaign contributions related to this property are OK. The followups that went on about campaign contributions in general have migrated to an appropriate forum.
I'm just trying to keeps topics in the right places here.
A reminder to everyone to please read the Code of Conduct before posting.
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