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community activists: Its a major turnaround for Metrolinx, which has previously resisted requests by community activists to intensify development on the 23-hectare brownfield at Eglinton Ave. W. and Black Creek Dr., and include multi-storey commercial buildings that could lead to local jobs, according to The Star. The reality is they re going to be skilled jobs that most of the local people in that low-income area are not going to be able to get and Metrolinx has agreed to open debate on the fate of the former Kodak manufacturing site just months before the provincial agency tenders a multibillion-dollar contract to build a storage facility for the Crosstown LRT there. The fact that they put in this huge facility has a devastating kind of impact. Kodak used to be one of the major suppliers in York. They provided around 3,000 jobs, said local councillor Frank Di Giorgio. Now all of a sudden you get a huge maintenance facility there and maybe 500 jobs. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.