Milton covets its own ivory tower
Prime real estate, free to a good home: The town is offering an area of land just west of the GO Station free to a post secondary institution. Is this a good move?
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For those of you who haven’t heard, the Town of Milton is making it known it has some coveted land available free to a post secondary institution… almost like a first-come, first-served.
The town has been talking about this for some time now. It’s been in the works for months and they’re finally moving on the pitch. If Milton could scoop up a university/college campus, it would be a major coup. Mississauga was/is trying for the same thing.
There is a shortage of spaces available at post secondary schools in Ontario and since getting rid of Grade 13, it only got worse with more students looking for a place to go. It’s a huge piece of land and giving it away might sound like the wrong thing but the long term goals outweigh the short term…
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