Urban Heritage
- Heritage Toronto: 2004 Community Heritage Award For “the work you undertook to ensure that this superb example of Art Deco/Art Moderne architecture was saved from demolition. Your work of enlisting the support of Toronto’s communities, winning National Historic Site designation, and, most of all, changing Toronto policy by proposing fiscally innovative formulae for developer-government cooperation within a heritage context, will continue to guide and inspire others. For this effort, the people of Toronto are in your debt.”
- Heritage Toronto: The First Members' Choice Award Ever Presented by This Agency “To the community organization that the members of Heritage Toronto found to be the most significant of all community heritage efforts in the city.”
October 18, 2004
May 26, 2004
- Toronto City Council Citation: “for your tremendous contribution to the City of Toronto.
2001
- Announced the restoration of this historic performance suite on March 20, 2001. 7th Floor reopened as “The Carlu” on May 3, 2003.
- The Canadian Urban Institute Leadership Awards Program 2004 recognizes leaders in our community who have helped to renew, revitalize, and inspire Toronto and enrich our quality of life.”
1976 – Present
- President, Eaton's College Street Auditorium & Round Room: Save the 7th Floor Inc. Championed the preservation of this nationally historic auditorium, chosen by Glenn Gould for most of his recordings. Now designated a National Historic Site.
1969
- Purchased and championed the preservation of "The Church," the former residence and studio of Canadian sculptors Frances Loring and Florence Wyle. Now designated a Provincial Heritage Site.