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I'm dumbfounded why a university is even a good thing for the city. There are far more important battles (eg Hospital) to be fought.

All I see in a future university campus is drunken kids needing to be corralled by police & hundreds of illegal basement apartments.


Universities bring jobs - good jobs. University staff member is a pretty sweet gig.
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Good grief....

We can not land hospital funding/expansion... now the University is questionable...
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eci wrote:
shawnrk1 wrote:
I'm dumbfounded why a university is even a good thing for the city. There are far more important battles (eg Hospital) to be fought.

All I see in a future university campus is drunken kids needing to be corralled by police & hundreds of illegal basement apartments.


Universities bring jobs - good jobs. University staff member is a pretty sweet gig.


The same jobs that have been striking twice in past couple years over unfair working conditions / wages?
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Richardv wrote:
Good grief....

We can not land hospital funding/expansion... now the University is questionable...


uhhh we got the hospital...

http://www.insidehalton.com/community/milton/article/1070947
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RobB wrote:
Richardv wrote:
Good grief....

We can not land hospital funding/expansion... now the University is questionable...


uhhh we got the hospital...

http://www.insidehalton.com/community/milton/article/1070947


beat me to it.
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Zeeshan Hamid wrote:
It will be a 150 acre Wilfrid Laurier campus (their Waterloo campus is only 5 acres). The 450 acre education village will also include Sheridan college, a research park (will include R&D companies) and a proper neighbourhood (with highschool, elementary schools, neighbourhood park and village squares). It's not just hype.

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I admittedly don't have the best sense of measurement, but, that doesn't seem right. 5 acres for that entire Waterloo campus? Did you drop a zero there?
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This article talks about 40 acres for the WLU campus..

http://www.sharenotes.com/top-schools/9 ... ture-notes

If you look at the location that is boxes between University/King/Bricker & Albert, its around 300-400 metres by 500-600 metres, so 40-50 acres is probably accurate. Yes I did nerd out a bit there.

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Zeeshan Hamid wrote:
It will be a 150 acre Wilfrid Laurier campus (their Waterloo campus is only 5 acres). The 450 acre education village will also include Sheridan college, a research park (will include R&D companies) and a proper neighbourhood (with highschool, elementary schools, neighbourhood park and village squares). It's not just hype.

Zeeshan Hamid
Co-Chair, Milton Economic Development Advisory Committee


I admittedly don't have the best sense of measurement, but, that doesn't seem right. 5 acres for that entire Waterloo campus? Did you drop a zero there?
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Thanks for the reply guys. The project is bigger than I thought. I was thinking just a remote campus, with a few buildings but this sounds pretty big.

Hopefully we see some movement on this. A heavy R&D facility could do a lot to create some viable employment growth in the area.
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Thanks for clearing that up zeesh.
Hope to hear more news when construction begins when available :)
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vgopal wrote:
Thanks for the reply guys. The project is bigger than I thought. I was thinking just a remote campus, with a few buildings but this sounds pretty big.

Hopefully we see some movement on this. A heavy R&D facility could do a lot to create some viable employment growth in the area.


Time will tell but Laurier would not be able to pull heavy R&D facility in the area - we're being too generous. However, developing a 'niche' such as Green Tech could be promissing, at least in the sustainability relm.

Service employment yes but R&D a big IF.

Size of 100 acres or 300 acres is one thing and the quality of education imparted, students attracted and the business appeal is a quite distinct thing. If anything, for a mid-range univ doubling or trippling its student body could, if anything, bring down the quality of its students and programs.
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Can anyone please tell me if the school going in on Savoline and Pringle is going to be Catholic Elementary or Public? Also the new park that they are building on Savoline (closer to Derry) will it have a splash pad?

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Hi Junebug

The school site at the south-east corner of Pringle and Savoline is to be a Catholic elementary school, but it does not have funding yet according to trustees I have spoken with. Check their website for future announcements:

http://www.hcdsb.org/Pages/default.aspx

Not sure about the splash pad on Savoline yet, will check and get back to you.

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From today's Champion

http://www.insidehalton.com/news/articl ... ite-campus

Despite what some people have been saying, the University has NOT been approved yet and it maybe several years in the future depending on Provincial funding. The VP of Laurier made a presentation to Milton Council last month stating that IF the province gave approval next spring, the first phase of the university would be about a 3000 student campus that would take about 3 years to build or about 2016 to serve the local population.

For more information on this and other local projects check http://www.milton.ca.

Colin Best
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Keep lobbying for that Campus Colin!
We have friends in Stratford, where Waterloo has expanded their campus recently focusing on Digital media type programs. It's done a lot for what was otherwise a shrinking town. It's bringing a university educated work-force, adding employment opportunity and improving the retail and spin-off commercial support opportunities. It's small in comparison to what Laurier wants to do in Milton.

http://stratfordcampus.uwaterloo.ca/
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I don't think Milton is big enough yet and in near future to accommodate so many students.

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