{"id":730740,"date":"2026-06-11T23:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/730740\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T23:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:13:13","slug":"ontario-place-parking-garage-contract-awarded-for-200m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/730740\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Place parking garage contract awarded for $200M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ontario taxpayers will spend $200 million on a new parking garage at Ontario Place, but the government says it will quickly generate tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tourism Minister Stan Cho announced today that the province has awarded a $200-million contract to build the five-storey structure to Canadian company Pomerleau Inc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The government says the parking garage will have up to 3,500 spots, 680 electric vehicle charging stations, up to 100 bicycle parking spaces, a bus pickup and drop-off area, and will generate up to $60 million in annual revenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Premier Doug Ford has previously said the structure would blend into the surrounding area with a landscape berm, but critics were skeptical after renderings were released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The parking has been a particular lightning rod in a broader controversy surrounding Ford\u2019s plans to redevelop the waterfront Ontario Place attraction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The auditor general has found that the province is obligated to provide parking in its deal with European company Therme to build a spa and waterpark there, and that the government proposed putting parking below a relocated science centre in order to dispel public concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 11, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Allison Jones, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ontario taxpayers will spend $200 million on a new parking garage at Ontario Place, but the government says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,11867,714],"class_list":["post-730740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ontario-quebec","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}