Joe Pantalone's mayoral campaign has announced his intention, if elected, to aggressively pursue a green mandate for Build Toronto, the city's arm's length real estate and development corporation.
The deputy mayor would place particular emphasis on green partnerships and development, with Build Toronto encouraging green industrial uses for disused properties in low-income or transitional neighbourhoods.
"This is something to galvanize Build Toronto," says Pantalone's press secretary, Mike Smith. "When you look at these neighbourhoods," Smith says, "these are often post-industrial neighbourhoods. If you pursue the development of green economy, you can let the neighbourhoods transform as they have, maintain their industrial base without bringing in a lot of destructive, polluting industries on the one hand, or going the other way, like Leslieville, replacing good industrial jobs with dead-end service jobs.
"It's a way of looking at sustainability in a wholistic way. It's environmental, but it's also economic and social, and if you take any of those out of the triangle, it's not really sustainable."
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Mike Smith
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