Linehan Foundation donates $1 million to TIFFG's Festival Centre

TORONTO – The Brian Linehan Charitable Foundation has donated $1 million to the Toronto International Film Festival Group’s Festival Centre, which will be built at the corner of King and John streets in Toronto. Construction began on February 1 on the facility, which will include a five-story podium building housing the TIFFG’s operations, a gallery, five cinemas, educational suites, a film reference library and Festival Tower, a 37-story residential condominium building. The TIFFG will name the research room at Festival Centre after Linehan, an entertainment journalist/host who died in 2004. It will also establish The Brian Linehan Endowment Fund, with...