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I read somewhere that one of the purposes of this project is to address the relative lack of rinks in the old city of Toronto compared to the old suburbs.

I agree with your assessment, Archivist: I think the streets you mentioned would make excellent candidates for pedestrianising. I think that a totally pedestrianised Yonge St or Front St might feel a little too vast -- especially during the winter. On Yonge, I would love to see the sidewalks...

Good news for the developers of Southcore.

New York Fries, too, eh? Might've figured!

Hear, hear! I've muttered the exact same wish myself while passing this hideous building! Do you believe in the power of the collective will?

I'll tell ya what needs to happen in order for Toronto to have an iconic food: the restaurants in this country have GOT to stop naming their food after places in the US!!! This annoys me to no end! Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that East Side Marios, Montana's, Baton...

I agree with what many of you are saying about not preserving buildings simply because they're old. We in Toronto must remember that great swathes of mediaeval Paris were demolished in order to build the streetscapes that we think of as Paris today. Very little of modern central London is...

I dunno; I think that if "global status" is what we desire, we should own it; never mind how it makes us look. Striving for global city status while trying to look like we're not for fear of appearing... well, "striving" risks making us look equally foolish -- like someone who tries to conceal...

There've been a lot of interesting ideas about what food, attractions, etc. should be marketed as "iconic Toronto" here. Just about any of these ideas could fly if marketed properly. What I think Toronto should do is - instead of choosing to promote, say, peameal on a kaiser as iconic Toronto...

It did! Thanks, CML!

Has a report been released? What are you responding to, CML?

For direct comparisons among major cities in Canada and USA, here's an interesting link: http://www.colliers.com/Country/UnitedStates/content/Colliers_officenahighlights2010Q1_d.pdf

So Colliers is the source! Thanks for the info, Taal!

Sorry I can't properly cite this information, but this week, in the National Post, I read that there were 70 million sf of office space in downtown Toronto. By comparison, Manhattan had 353.7 million sf of office space in 2001 (http://www.allbusiness.com/construction/4266400-1.html). I'd like...