Source: United Jewish Comunities/JTA
http://www.uja.org/content_display.html?ArticleID=118683
On June 17, 2004 the United Jewish Comunities website posted a JTA article that reported, "Toronto's Jewish federation has launched a building project so large that one official says it will create a Jewish mini-city. Budgeted at more than $180 million, the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto's Tomorrow campaign, billed as the largest non-profit community development project in Canadian history, involves the construction of a massive new Jewish complex north of the city, as well as dramatic infrastructure upgrades to two major Jewish sites in the city center and the historic downtown core. 'We began planning for this in 1999 when we realized that the infrastructure of our Jewish community hadn't kept pace with our growth,' said the federation's president, Ted Sokolsky. The Jewish population in the Toronto area has approximately doubled over the last two generations. 'Our institutions were built for a community of 90,000, and here we were with a community approaching 200,000,' Sokolsky said. The community has grown by leaps and bounds in recent decades, with the arrival of tens of thousands of Israelis and Jews from Montreal and the former Soviet Union."