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By way of offering comment regarding the Wesley Mimico redevelopment project at 2 Station Road, in connection with the Oct. 17, 2013 Etobicoke York Community Council meeting, I’ve sent the following email (see below) to the following councillors: councillor_grimes@toronto.ca councillor_digiorgio@toronto.ca councillor_doucette@toronto.ca councillor_palacio@toronto.ca councillor_dford@toronto.ca councillor_lindsay_luby@toronto.ca councillor_milczyn@toronto.ca councillor_mammoliti@toronto.ca councillor_leon@toronto.ca Comment regarding 2 Station Road I support efforts to […]

For your interest, the Wesley Mimico United Church has launched a new website focusing on the church’s proposed redevelopment: http://wesleymimico.org/ I’ve been following the Wesley redevelopment story since February 2012 when a Mimico resident sent me an email about the initial redevelopment proposal for the church. It’s a fascinating story and I’m pleased that in recent […]

Update A June 4, 2018 CBC article is entitled: “This pastor closed his church: Graham Singh is saving a Montreal church by first closing the doors, then opening them wider than ever.” [End]   In a previous post, I have summarized a paper by Hackworth and Gullikson (2013) regarding church conversions in Toronto. Below is […]

In their article about church reconversions in Toronto, Jason Hackwork and Erin Gullikson (2013) describe the Bethel Green Seniors Residence as a church conversion involving mixed function and form. In such a form of church redevelopment, a building is constructed around all of part of a congregation’s initial place of worship, and a new church, or […]