A pharmaceutical company in north Toronto is objecting to a proposed condo development next door on the grounds that the hundreds of residents looking down on its facility will represent a threat to “national security.”
Sanofi Pasteur is expanding its manufacturing facility because, according to a letter from the company’s lawyers, it has won a contract to make future pandemic relief vaccines for the federal and Ontario governments.
But the France-based company worries that two new towers proposed by the developer Tenblock — just a few hundred metres away, at 1875 Steeles Ave. W. — could jeopardize its security. Each tower would be more than 30 storeys high.
“The location
