As part of a series on influential Torontonians the
National Post looks at the impressive tenure of Ryerson University president, Sheldon Levy. Thanks to Levy the school is expanding faster than ever and is transforming the surrounding neighbourhood.
" Under [Sheldon Levy's] leadership, the school (which formerly, in his words, "Turned its back to the community") is having its Big Bang moment, adding the Ted Rogers School of Management (atop a Best Buy and Canadian Tire at Dundas and Bay streets), buying the Sam the Record Man on Yonge for a new student centre, and convincing the City of Toronto to turn Gould Street into a pedestrian mall, from Yonge to Church Street through the heart of the campus. In perhaps the biggest coup of them all, Ryerson is getting a new sports complex in the former Maple Leaf Gardens, atop a future Loblaws store."
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