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Expo City – The New Era of Vaughan

June 14, 2012 by  
Filed under Special Features

The New Era of VaughanThe memory is all-too-familiar: sitting in the backseat of the family car with your elders, listening to them reminisce about the past while proudly pointing to residential or commercial areas that were once plains of nothingness. Press the fast-forward button to the near future and you’ll soon be extending your hand towards the unprecedented growth of Vaughan: towering skyscrapers, an integrated subway network and a bubbling metropolitan centre. “The generations coming up are going to drive their kids around and say, ‘you know, when we were younger, this was just fields and no buildings,’ which is sort of the same thing my dad did with me when he drove to some of the sites he was developing,” says Peter Cortellucci, deeply involved in the development industry since he was a teenager. As vice-president of the Cortel Group, a diversified development firm building sustainable residential communities across the GTA, Cortellucci, 25, is palpably young, but somehow formulates words of Read more

2011 Mayor’s Gala

August 12, 2011 by  
Filed under People & Places

Mayors GalaClose to 1,000 guests joined Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua at the 2011 Mayor’s Gala, the city’s premier annual fundraising event in support of Vaughan’s not-for-profit and community organizations. This year’s gala, Our Journey – Our Future, marked Vaughan’s 20th anniversary and emphasized its generous and Read more