--TTC will NOT take up 9000 square miles. It will take up nearly 1000.--
The article did not say it would take up 9000 square miles. It said it would involve the purchase of 9000 square miles. They have to buy up right of ways and interchanges. Later they will sell the interchanges to hotels and McDonalds.
They purchase it; it takes up; same difference. It will take up about 1000 square miles.
You mean, lease, maybe?