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Though the mall experienced an upswing in store occupancy by the end of the decade following the opening of a ServiceOntario location, [4] by 2017 it was cited by the Toronto Star as a mall "struggling to survive" amid the retail apocalypse of the 2010s. [3] In 2016, the Whitby Mall was acquired by the real estate firm First Capital.
In 1996, a new, state-of-the-art, $90 million Whitby Mental Health Centre became the first public psychiatric hospital to be built in North America in 25 years. [3] The facility was designed with eight interconnected buildings, separated by accessible landscaped courtyards and linked by a 1,400 foot interior corridor.
After Cambodian businessman, Teng Bunma, 55, deplaned from a Royal Air Cambodge flight from Hong Kong to Phnom Penh on April 8, 1997, an airline representative informed him that his luggage would be unloaded only after he paid an additional $600 fee. In response, he borrowed a handgun from one of his bodyguards and shot out one of the tires of ...
Gordon Ramsay says he’s “lucky to be here” after crashing his bicycle earlier this week in Connecticut.
Two fires in the space of 24 hours caused the Magpie Café to close for repairs in May 2017, [9] reopening in December 2017. [10] The first fire started at 10 pm on 30 April 2017, seven fire engines attended. It was likely caused by a grease build up in an electrical extraction flue in the roof, it damaged the top floor customer toilets.
The store continued to trade under the Hewlands name until August 1956 when Mr Hewland retired. The building was replaced with a new property on the same site and went by the Boyes name. [27] The store traded well and 1958 Boyes purchased five old properties further down Freeman Street and built a second store in their place.
The town of Whitby has therefore proposed a new hospital in the recently developed north Whitby, to service the town and north Oshawa. As a short-term solution, a February 2006 request for $17.5 million for the current location's infrastructure was submitted by the Lakeridge Corporation to the Ministry of Health.
The original church building was the St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church built from 1857 to 1859. [3] Built in the Gothic Revival architectural style, it was designed as a Scottish kirk by Whitby architect Amos W. Cron. Local grain merchant William Laing paid for the site and half the construction costs. [4]