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What was "better" about the Starbucks at Chapters that isn't at any other Starbucks, anyway? Technically, they moved a few doors east to the corner of Avenue and Bloor. There's another one at the back, on Cumberland - where Brooks Brothers is.

Absolutely nothing - other than it being one of the first, and the first that I hung out at back in those halcyon days. The whole setup was rather exotic back then.

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Equinox Yorkville officially opens in their new space.

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Still a pile to do at Hazelton Village, I mean Yorkville Lanes, I mean is this name change a good idea? I'm not so sure. Would asking someone to meet in front of STORE X in Yorkville Village indicate to them that you were expecting to meet up in an enclosed mall? I say 'no'.

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There's just not enough in here yet to give anyone an idea of what kind of personality the mall will have. Let's hope more than it does now!

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I really don't see the issue with the new name. So many malls have names like this: Pickering Town Centre, Erin Mills Town Centre, Vaughan Mills, Dufferin Mall, Scarborough Town Centre, et al.

I don't understand why people are nitpicking this. Was the change necessary, certainly not. But as a name, it makes 100% sense.
 
What gets me isn't naming the mall after the neighbourhood - it is how there is nothing "villagey' about the mall. Our developers have a funny way of naming development, be it residential or commerical, paying weird homage to supposedly bucolic and rural imagery which is about as far removed as reality (as if Avenue Road and Bloor fits that bill). Like this weird obsession with "mills" - we sure had ground flour that way for the past century.

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They should have just really gone for it & called it "The Village Shoppes at the Village of Yorkville Village, Yorkville... Village"

Anyway... the name sucks and whoever thought of/approved it, is an idiot.
 

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