October 18, 2012, The Star.
The City of Toronto is poised to bid on a derelict downtown lot in hopes it can be transformed into a park instead of yet another thicket of condominiums.
Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam is leading the charge to buy 11 Wellesley St. W., east of Queen’s Park, and turn it into a park named for Jane Jacobs, the celebrated Toronto-based urbanist who died in 2006.