The site selected for a Barrie CTS is 11 Innisfil St., (80 Bradford St. Unit 940). This location received Barrie City Council endorsement on May 31, 2021.
This site
presents the best balance between serving clients effectively and ensuring an acceptable fit within the surrounding community.
Benefits of the site include:
- Being near to people who would use it while being off the main street
- Having a separate entrance from the other services available close by, providing a less stigmatizing environment and more privacy for the clients
- Having wrap around services in the building and nearby, including those of CMHA SCB, SMDHU, and several other health and social service agencies
- Being large enough to accommodate touchdown services on site
We recognize the confusion created by the different addresses associated with the chosen space. When we conducted our property search this site came to us as 80 Bradford St. unit 940. When we released the potential site locations in a media release, Mr. Steve Sperling (property owner/landlord) gave a public statement referring to the site location as 19 Innisfil St. It has since been brought to the attention of the co-applicants by Mr. Sperling, Landlord and Rob Nicholson, General Manager of the Aerarium Group that the preferred reference to the site location should be 11 Innisfil St. recognizing that the legal address remains 80 Bradford St. Unit 940. At that time, we asked the realtor volunteering on the SCS Site Selection Advisory Committee to confirm the correct address and before we went to community consultation, Mr. Sperling reaffirmed that he uses the 19 Innisfil Street address for this section of the building. Further explanation of the request to refer to the site as 11 Innisfil St. can be found in a letter provided to the Canadian Mental Health Association, as lead applicant by The Aerarium Group.