'Over the moon': Newmarket creators embrace plans to make town an arts community in Greater Toronto Area

‘Over the moon’: Newmarket creators embrace plans to make town an arts community in Greater Toronto Area

“We’ve done an extremely good job at building out our recreational amenities. But it’s really been in the last decade we’ve seen a — pardon the pun — a renaissance and interest and activity and growth in the arts (developed over a century),” Mayor John Taylor said.

Categorized in: Business Posted on: January 29, 2023 Last updated on: February 17, 2023 Written by: Nathan Allen

There is an emerging plan to bring those pieces together, and create new ones, such as at the former town operations centre and the former fire department training facility on Timothy Street, to position the town as an eminent arts community in the GTA. Over the next month, as council sets out the town’s strategic priorities, councilors are expected to formalize the concept as a fundamental pillar of the town’s economic development strategy and begin laying the groundwork to create a vision to carry it out.

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