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on August 18, 2012
August 18, 2012, CityNews. Patio lovers have reason to celebrate now that two lanes of downtown Yonge Street have been blocked off for the month-long Celebrate Yonge festival. The event, which has closed one lane of Yonge in each direction between Queen and Gerrard streets, kicked off Friday. Patios, planters and Muskoka chairs have taken up those [...]
on August 17, 2012
August 16, 2012. When Celebrate Yonge kicks off this Friday, Yonge Street will be overflowing with beautiful planter boxes designed and planted by professional landscapers, thanks to a challenge issued by the City of Toronto’s Live Green Toronto program. Twenty landscapers and gardeners answered the call to design and produce the 86 seasonal plantings that [...]
on August 15, 2012
Dear Friends, Residents and Business Owners, Visit Celebrate Yonge and see iconic Yonge Street from a new perspective during a special four week event starting this Friday! From August 17 to September 16, 2012, Yonge Street sidewalks will be widen from Queen to Gerrard streets to make way for new outdoor patios, provocative [...]
on August 15, 2012
August 15, 2012, Toronto Life. Beginning Friday, car traffic on Yonge Street will be reduced to one lane in each direction between Gerrard Street and Queen Street as part of the Celebrate Yonge festival (and as part of councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam’s bid to permanently liven up the street). Read More…