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Stephen Hargreaves NEWS EDITOR oday, the University of Windsor revealed their vision for a downtown campus that includes renovations to the former Windsor Armouries, Greyhound Bus Depot and Windsor Star buildings. The preliminary renderings, released on the UWindsor website by president Alan Wildeman, were created by CS&P Architects Inc., the firm charged with the complete renovations and construction of all three projects. The projects, expected to cost approximately $70 million, will be funded by a $15 million provincial grant and $10 million from the City of Windsor, who also donated the Windsor Armouries and the Greyhound Bus Depot. The remaining...
Gord Bacon ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR he University of Windsor is joining forces with Transit Windsor to bring Windsor’s transit system into the 21st century by putting a mandatory bus pass to referendum for the first time since 2005. The University of Windsor’s Students’ Alliance and Transit Windsor have struck a deal that UWSA president André Capaldi thinks will be mutually beneficial to both students and Windsor’s transit system. In exchange for a financial commitment from the student body, which Transit Windsor hopes will increase ridership and translate into more municipal and provincial funding, Transit Windsor guarantees to reinvest capital generated...
UWindsor goes all in on downtown campus Stephen Hargreaves NEWS EDITOR he University of Windsor confirmed plans to purchase the downtown Windsor Star building last week, to become the new home of the school of social work and Centre for Executive and Professional Development. The Windsor Star building at Pitt and Ferry streets, which has housed the daily paper since 1927. The displaced Windsor Star will move forward with a proposed move into the Palace Cinema building on Ouellette Avenue following a $3 million renovation expected to take one year. In an address to the Windsor-Essex Regional Chamber of Commerce,...
The Homeless Coalition of Windsor-Essex County details community resources Andrea Keelan FEATURES WRITER he different stories and situations infused in the homeless community were revealed during a walking tour of local resources for last week’s Homeless Awareness Week. In Windsor-Essex, 10 per cent of the population, including 16 per cent of children under the age of 18, are considered low income or living below the poverty line, according to the 2006 Census. Mia, a resident at the Well-Come Centre women’s shelter, who wished not to reveal her last name, said a decision to leave her job two and a half...
