rdaner
Senior Member
Taken 8 January.
rdaner
Senior Member
Taken 9 February.
rdaner
Senior Member
A lot of progress. 5 March.
rdaner
Senior Member
Taken 20 March. The next big thing that I am watching out for is the re-opening of Augusta and the resulting bump in pedestrian traffic. Will the energy of the street in Kensington Market start spilling south?!
Towered
Superstar
Not without any retail spaces it won't.
bearcat
Active Member
Are there any planned?
Towered
Superstar
don't know. Toronto has a habit of not inducing retail spaces in places where they're obviously needed when redevelopment provides the golden opportunity to do so. It annoys me to no end.
AlbertC
Superstar
Just like the drab swaths of highrises in areas such as Liberty Village and Humber Bay Shores that are devoid of pedestrian life!
rdaner
Senior Member
^Of course! What I was pondering was the much less formal conversion of spaces to retail on a small scale to begin with such as live/work units or the front rooms of townhouses being used as happened on Augusta north of Dundas.
Northern Light
Superstar
Just like the drab swaths of highrises in areas such as Liberty Village and Humber Bay Shores that are devoid of pedestrian life!
LV is one of the worst efforts at planning ever seen in this City. So little interesting heritage was saved on the east side, in particular, and making a strip plaza the retail centre piece.....sigh. All that and inadequate parkland, and too much density relative to available transit at the time.
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Northern Light
Superstar
LV and HBS aside............
I don't think a re-done Alex Park needs retail at its core. South of Kensington, north of Queen West, and east of Chinatown, there's lots of retail nearby.
Retail will be introduced, where there is none today, all along the south side of
I think that probably does most of the heavy lifting. A couple of spots in the interior for a convenience store or a quirky cafe would be welcome.....but one needn't go heavy.
In the future.....I expect Bathurst to fill in with retail as well.
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Towered
Superstar
You mean Dundas I'm assuming.
I want to see micro retail spaces added to small side streets. That would really bring the funk to this city.
Tyrang
Active Member
I do find it really fun to discover random coffee shop and convenient store in the inner Annex Neighborhood (North of Bloor). But I do question the overall business viability. sometimes. .
AnnetteMeetsJane
Active Member
They would be destined to fail. Ally Park is surrounded by retail opportunities on all of the major streets and most of them are empty.
Towered
Superstar
Err, which retail spaces are empty?