Woodbine Live! is a major new development planned for the
Woodbine Racetrack. It will include a full service hotel, entertainment complex, bars and restaurants, retail and commercial space and housing.
Community Benefit Agreements are growing in popularity across North America. Local communities want an open and transparent development process in which everyone’s interests are represented in a fair and balanced way.

What is CORD?
Community Organizing for Responsible Development (CORD) was formed by Etobicoke residents and organizations. We want meaningful consultation with Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) and the Cordish Company on how the development will meet the needs of the local community.
Our goal is to reach a community benefits agreement with WEG and Cordish that includes:
• Good jobs in an unionized environment
• Local hiring and training
• Transit a improvements
• High environmental standards
• Health and education facilities
• Community space for seniors, youth and other groups

Links to other Community Benefit Agreements

Atlantic Yards – Brooklyn
http://www.atlanticyards.com/html/community/cba.html

Center on Policy Initiatives – San Diego
http://onlinecpi.live.radicaldesigns.org/index.php

Connecticut Centre for a New Economy – New Haven, Hartford
http://www.ctneweconomy.org/CBA.html

Good Jobs First – Washington DC
http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/

Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, Los Angeles
http://www.laane.org/index.html

The Partnership for Working Families, California
http://californiapartnership.org/index.php

 

Community Benefits Agreements – Making Development Projects Accountable

By Julian Gross – Legal Director, California Partnership for Working Families
With Greg LeRoy – Good Jobs First and Madeline Janis-Aparicio – LAANE

Published by Good Jobs First and the California Partnership for Working Families

http://californiapartnership.org/downloads/CBA%20Handbook%202005%20final.pdf