Wonderland Additional Acreage Under Conditional Offer

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The health care foundation, whose directors include local business people and several councillors, have settled on a preferred location for the proposed $1.2 billion hospital: land just north of the theme park, on Major Mackenzie Dr. off Highway 400.

It entered into a conditional agreement this month to buy the land from Cedar Fair, the Ohio-based owner of Wonderland, for an undisclosed sum.

The request for $80 million follows last year's vague commitment by council to make "a significant contribution" toward acquiring land for a hospital. A news release from the foundation yesterday made no mention of the amount of money being sought but stressed that Vaughan is the largest city in Canada without a hospital....

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