A basic slide show presented to community members who live near the new location of the Penalty Box Restaurant and the new Delightful Urban Farm.

1. Growing Outside the Box
Revitalizing an historic industrial site to establish a
new commercial and cultural hub for our city's
west side and create another Windsor first

2. Welcome

Bios and background

Site history

The Main Attraction

Benefits to neighbourhood and Windsor

Working together

Recent developments

3 action steps

3. Van Niforos
Basic Stats
 Owner of very successful
Penalty Box restaurant
for 20 years
 Youth sports and
community supporter
 Commitment to family
and quality local food

4. David Fields
Basic Stats

20 years experience with
non-profit orgs “making
things happen”

Organic Master Gardener

Commitment to family
and local food

5. Garlic from China? Tomatoes from
Mexico?

Need to source quality
local ingredients all year

1400 pounds of
tomatoes per week

What does it take to
grow in winter? Who is
doing it?

Organic growing
techniques

6. Restoring and Celebrating our History

7. Historic SW&A Car Barns

8. Historic SW&A Car Barns

9. Historic SW&A Car Barns

10. Historic SW&A Car Barns

11. New ideas need old buildings

12. 20 Delight-Full Years

13. 20 Delight-Full Years

1000 meals a day

60 employees

Healthy recipes from
scratch using local
ingredients whenever
possible

Bursting at the seams,
need to grow!

14. Urban Agriculture

15. Urban Agriculture

16. Urban Agriculture

17. Urban Agriculture

18. Urban Agriculture

19. Urban Agriculture

20. Canada's First Integrated
Restaurant & Urban Farm

21. Growing the Penalty Box

300+ seat family restaurant in restored historic
location near Windsor's riverfront.

Featuring restored windows, skylights, floor of
period wood, modern kitchen, freshest salad bar

All the classic Penalty Box fare

New gluten-free and vegetarian offerings

Heritage Designation & National Historic Site

22. Delightful Farm
Winter Hothouse

23. Delightful Farm
Site Plan

24. Delightful Farm
A four season urban farm

25. Delightful Farm
Aquaponics

26. Delighful Farm
Rooftop Orchard
d

27. Penalty Box & Delightful Farm
Benefits

Provide new employment and training opportunities,
especially for youth

Help increase tourism as a culinary and green
destination

Attract research and development investment

Reinvigorate West Side and Downtown commercial
districts

Increase property values

28. Penalty Box & Delightful Farm
Benefits

Provide some of the freshest, healthiest food in the
city.

A cultural hub bridging UWindsor's main campus
with new university and St. Clair College downtown
campuses

Non-profit organization established to coordinate
tours and public education efforts, in collaboration
with schools, community groups and others.

Restore some of Windsor's forgotten history

29. Penalty Box & Delightful Farm
Working Together with You

Help clean up and maintain Gateway Park in
collaboration with neighbours, the City of Windsor,
Canadian Pacific and other partners

Please tell us if you are interested in helping to
organize and conduct park clean up and
beautification

Open to other ways of working together over time

30. Recent Developments

Safety work on securing
steel frame to
foundation complete

Resources gathered for
roof work

Non-profit education
org incorporated

Many plates spinning

31. Recent Developments

Proposal for 1100
University Ave building
to become the new
Community Museum
hub will be considered
by City Council

Do you think this is the
appropriate location for
the new museum?

32. What you can do
1. Please sign a letter of support of the new Penalty
Box and Delightful Farm
2. Stay in touch! Join our email list for updates; join
the Penalty Box Facebook Page; Visit the blog
delightfulfarm.wordpress.com
3. Write to the Mayor and Council to voice support for
the museum proposal