What's up with the Sun Life deal?

At the Board of Control on Wednesday we received a report from two Ivey Business School professors which analyzed a proposal by Sun Life to build a business park which could accommodate warehouses and some light industry on a piece of farm land on the south side of Wilton Grove Road across from the city's Forest City Industrial Park. Although Sun Life had withdrawn its proposal nearly a year ago, the report suggested that it could have offered a good economic opportunity and a number of members of the Board of Control decried the loss of hundreds and even thousands of potential new jobs.

But was it really a good deal?

To answer that question, we need to go back to how this all came about.