christiesplits said:

‘Your most favourite place in the world is going away’: Why plans to tear down this Toronto Cineplex has left locals ‘heartbroken’​



www.thestar.com

‘Your most favourite place in the world is going away’: Why plans to tear down this Toronto Cineplex has left locals ‘heartbroken’

People living near the Cineplex Cinema Queensway say a large development slated for the site will destroy what they call a “social hub’ for the neighbourhood.
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I just read this Toronto Star article, and I don't know how something so ridiculous could get published even in the Toronto Star. It turns out that all those locals who have been left heartbroken are just four adult men, albeit men who seem to be afflicted with some form of intellectual disability (or at least that is how they are portrayed).

Their weekly excursions to the Cineplex were a fun outing for them and the only other alternative is a Cineplex in Rexdale an extra hour away and they might not have the endurance to travel an extra hour and then sit through a 2-hour movie. According to the article, they cannot attend Blue Jays games. People will make fun of them at a Blue Jays game, but not at the Cineplex. Can't they find other fun outings? There is an IKEA nearby. I would find that more fun than going to a Cineplex, especially hitting the cafeteria in IKEA for a cheap breakfast or Swedish meatballs at lunch.

I can't remember the last time I stepped foot inside a Cineplex theater; it must be decades ago. I never considered them real movie theatres. How is this a cause célèbre for the Toronto Star? This Cineplex is going to be replaced with housing for 10,000 within close distance to the Kipling subway station and other major transportation arteries. Isn't that what Toronto should be striving for?

We have a major shortage of housing in this city. We don't have a shortage of things to keep four developmentally disabled adult men entertained on their weekly outing.
 
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EBT said:
I just read this Toronto Star article, and I don't know how something so ridiculous could get published even in the Toronto Star. It turns out that all those locals who have been left heartbroken are just four adult men, albeit men who seem to be afflicted with some form of intellectual disability (or at least that is how they are portrayed).

Their weekly excursions to the Cineplex were a fun outing for them and the only other alternative is a Cineplex in Rexdale an extra hour away and they might not have the endurance to travel an extra hour and then sit through a 2-hour movie. According to the article, they cannot attend Blue Jays games. People will make fun of them at a Blue Jays game, but not at the Cineplex. Can't they find other fun outings? There is an IKEA nearby. I would find that more fun than going to a Cineplex, especially hitting the cafeteria in IKEA for a cheap breakfast or Swedish meatballs at lunch.

I can't remember the last time I stepped foot inside a Cineplex theater; it must be decades ago. I never considered them real movie theatres. How is this a cause célèbre for the Toronto Star? This Cineplex is going to be replaced with housing for 10,000 within close distance to the Kipling subway station and other major transportation arteries. Isn't that what Toronto should be striving for?

We have a major shortage of housing in this city. We don't have a shortage of things to keep four developmentally disabled adult men entertained on their weekly outing.
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Replacing the Cineplex box with housing seems to be a positive move, I would be surprised at anyone who would argue with that, however your seemingly casual dismissal of the challenges facing the developmentally disabled within the city is disconcerting.
 
christiesplits said:
Approved by council.

Toronto Star article below.

www.thestar.com

City council approves Cineplex Queensway demolition to make way for thousands of condos

Ten condo towers ranging from 18 to 46 storeys and two seven-storey non-residential buildings will be built in place of the Etobicoke theatre.
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That is HIGHLY IRRESPONSIBLE reporting, and based on the wording, should not have been posted here without comment, but since it was...

It is a rezoning of the site that was approved, not a demolition. Nothing is imminent regarding the theatre, no screenings are being cancelled, that explosion you hear is not the next cinema coming down, but a sound leak from the screening next to yours.

Talisker, not one of our major developers, but coincidentally quite a good whiskey, a bottle of which The Star's reporter and editor may have imbibed in the production of that story, has gotten approval for a multi-phase, many-year redevelopment of the site. Someday in the future they may partner with an actual developer to start a block-by-block redevelopment, but we all know how quickly such things are happening these days...

...except for maybe the Toronto Star who are only interested in scaring people. What are they, the Sun suddenly? Pitiful that Cineplex has to contend with such crappy reporting.

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As long as one does not find oneself on the wrong end of it; an @interchange42 takedown is almost always a fun read.

As for Talisker.............I am watching the molasses pour over at their Main Square site......... (where there are no new docs in the SPA since 2022, and everyone around them is moving quickly.) They'll likely be last.........if they move.
 
interchange42 said:
That is HIGHLY IRRESPONSIBLE reporting, and based on the wording, should not have been posted here without comment, but since it was...

It is a rezoning of the site that was approved, not a demolition. Nothing is imminent regarding the theatre, no screenings are being cancelled, that explosion you hear is not the next cinema coming down, but a sound leak from the screening next to yours.

Talisker, not one of our major developers, but coincidentally quite a good whiskey, a bottle of which The Star's reporter and editor may have imbibed in the production of that story, has gotten approval for a multi-phase, many-year redevelopment of the site. Someday in the future they may partner with an actual developer to start a block-by-block redevelopment, but we all know how quickly such things are happening these days...

...except for maybe the Toronto Star who are only interested in scaring people. What are they, the Sun suddenly? Pitiful that Cineplex has to contend with such crappy reporting.

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kris said:
Project is dead.

Cineplex said they are here to stay and renewed the lease for another 20 years. They put a banner on the front of the building now that says "No end credits in sight"
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And you see the consequences. Toronto Star puts out a crappy article and Cineplex has to do some major PR repair to fix it with a full on press release and multiple banners promising people that they are, in fact, not closing up.
 
kris said:
Project is dead.

Cineplex said they are here to stay and renewed the lease for another 20 years. They put a banner on the front of the building now that says "No end credits in sight"
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The project is less dead, than never animated .......This was a land value exercise more than anything.......which may yet see life at some future point, but sales/rentals were never imminent here.

On that note, this is what Cineplex posted:

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lol they could just build a new cinema at the mall or something - shocked

but honestly transit isnt that good on the queensway - kipling isnt that close
 
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