Race car driver Peter Thomson and his wife, Diana, have donated $5 million towards the Toronto East hospital redevelopment. Construction on the 380,000-square-foot project is scheduled to begin in 2015-16.
The gift will establish the Ken and Marilyn Thomson Patient Care Centre, named after Peter Thomson’s parents. Ken Thomson, who died in 2006, was the son of Roy Thomson, who founded the newspaper chain bearing the family name in the 1930s.
“The Ken and Marilyn Thomson Patient Care Centre is the focal point of a ($211-million) capital redevelopment project,” the hospital stated in a press release. “In support of this Redevelopment, the Foundation has raised ($48 million) to date towards the ($60-million) private sector goal.”
The Ontario Minister of Health and Long Term Care announced in August that construction on the 380,000-square-foot project is scheduled to begin in 2015-16. It will include an eight-storey building on the corner of Mortimer and Coxwell Avenues in the former borough of East York.
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