Torontonians invited to weigh in on Old City Hall's future this weekend

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People who are visiting Old City Hall this play volition person the accidental to share their sentiment connected what the now-vacant sprawling Victorian-era gathering should beryllium utilized for.

Visitors during Doors Open programme tin capable retired survey, talk with metropolis staff

Photo wrong a courtroom, with a Canadian emblem and Ontario emblem flanking a chair

Visitors to the Old City Hall this play volition person the accidental to share their sentiment connected what the now-vacant sprawling Victorian-era gathering should beryllium utilized for.

Old City Hall is being included successful Doors Open for the archetypal clip successful 5 years. The yearly program, which is successful its 25th year, celebrates the city's architecture and past by giving visitors behind-the-scenes entree to 150 buildings crossed Toronto.

"Doors Open is simply a large accidental for Torontonians to commencement to prosecute with america connected what they want," said Vic Gupta, CEO of CreateTO, a city-owned bureau that looks to make opportunities based connected the city's existent property portfolio.

He said determination are respective opportunities for visitors to supply their input, specified arsenic by talking to CreateTO and metropolis staff, arsenic good arsenic filling retired an online survey.

Old City Hall, which is located connected Queen Street West at Bay Street, became vacant connected April 1 aft losing its lone tenant, the Ontario government, which had utilized the gathering arsenic a courthouse since 1972. The courts were relocated to the caller St. Lawrence Market North courthouse.

Gupta said the metropolis is asking CreateTO to make a "long word program truthful the radical of Toronto tin bask this gathering into the future."

Among the possibilities are turning it into a library, a depository of Toronto oregon a caller wedding chapel, helium said.

"It's a large space… We're hoping that each of those uses tin beryllium accommodated," helium said.

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He said CreateTO is looking to bash its "due diligence" by exploring what Torontonians privation for the building's aboriginal done an extended nationalist engagement process.

Doors Open is simply a "perfect launching constituent for our engagement with the public," helium said.

CreateTO volition analyse these suggestions implicit the adjacent twelvemonth arsenic it prepares a study for metropolis council, helium said.

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Doors Open runs May 24 and May 25 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with site-specific hours disposable connected the city's website.

Mayor Olivia Chow encouraged radical to enactment successful the program, speaking astatine Old City Hall connected Saturday.

"People tin travel successful for free, explore, ideate and accidental that, 'This is simply a metropolis wherever I consciousness I belong, a metropolis that I love," she said.