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on August 28, 2012
August 28, 2012, Metro. Yonge Street is alive again. Let’s keep it that way. The historic centre of the city and Toronto’s main drag hasn’t always had a great reputation. It’s been called kitschy. Undesirable. Even dangerous. Things got worse in April 2010, when a heritage building at Yonge and Gould was allowed to crumble [...]
on August 26, 2012
August 26, 2012, spacingtoronto. Kristyn Wong-Tam is city councillor for ward 27 in Toronto. A vocal champion of walking, the public realm and shared streets, Councillor Wong-Tam, in partnership with the Downtown Yonge BIA, is hosting the Celebrate Yonge Festival. Read More…
on August 22, 2012
August 22, 2012, Urban Toronto. Several blocks of Toronto’s legendary main drag, Yonge Street, have been partially reclaimed from the car for a four week long installation of patio space and greenery. We met up with Evan Weinberg, Planning and Development Manager for the Downtown Yonge BIA to talk about the event. “Over the past few [...]
on August 22, 2012
August 22, 2012, The Star. It was short and sweet, the way Bill Buss would have liked. About two dozen people gathered at the Rosar Morrison Funeral home in downtown Toronto on Tuesday to remember Buss, a 71-year-old homeless man who died in early June, curled up behind a boarded-up cubbyhole under a staircase on Parliament [...]