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The revised renders for this project look nicer than the originals. I'm tired of that ugly parking lot so I'd like to see this get going. This intersection remains an eyesore in an otherwise nice area, and a boring dead zone in the middle of the walk from the St. Lawrence Market to the...

That's a good start, it looks pretty bad and obvious now that the rest of the city is so green. Better empty holes for now than tree corpses. They did replant all these trees once already since the building was completed, and at that time they seemed to have done significant work on the holes...

Yeah, it closed a few months ago, at the same time as their Leslieville location. Nice people and good products but there are only so many olives people can buy, I guess. That was the only business on the strip that was pure retail rather than a restaurant or coffee shop. I look forward to...

"I'm a density creep" is an slogan that cries out for a cool illustrated t-shirt. Please tell me where I can buy one. Thank you.

Exactly. It's impossible to put a real beach there due to the steep drop to the water and the fact that the Redpath refinery still uses the area for industrial shipping. There are great swimmable beaches in Toronto, but not right there. In the context of the location, however, Sugar Beach is a...

It seems progress is being made, suddenly, I assume in a last-minute push for the Pan Ams. Many of the previously broken black streetlamps along Front St E have been replaced over the past few weeks. Today I see they are -- FINALLY! -- replanting the bump-outs near the Market and Princess St...

So here we are on Front St East nearly a year after my previous bout of complaining, and the Pan Am games are nigh. The bump-out plantings on Princess St and Berkeley are still all 100% dead, looking exactly as shown in my July 2014 photo with the addition of more trash and garbage. The...

Ugh, four years. What a disappointment. I started hearing about development of this site shortly after I moved into the area in 2003. Yet here we are over a decade later and all we've had to show is two years of an ugly half-arsed interim solution and now another four years of car dealership...

"Racial stuff?" Please feel free to elaborate on that.

Yeah, all the locations I ever visited (Queen/Spadina, Front East by the St. Lawrence Market, and now this one) have closed. I only know of the one in Yorkville now, though their website still lists a few others. Lettieri seems to occupy a weird niche between the Starbucks crowd and the true...

There are lots of good ones around, but since I like coffee shops, I'm always happy to see another. It is very much near the centre of the George Brown campus so that might make the location better than it seems at first glance.

Neo Coffee Bar - Frederick & Front Seems there's a new coffee shop going into the base of a condo building on Frederick St between King and Front. Almost directly across from a Starbucks, no less. http://app.toronto.ca/ApplicationStatus/details.do?folderRsn=3690431 Application...

Glad to hear, that dark glass would be a destroyer of foot traffic. Isn't the Tim Horton's going in next door to it? Will they change their glass to match, I wonder?

I usually experience pizza by putting it in my mouth and chewing on it. I'm interested to see what they suggest instead. Their website is here: http://onepizza.ca/

Everyone I know who lives near the Distillery shares your opinion. The crowds were bad in past years, but this year was by far the worst, and it impacts not only people who actually wish to attend the event, but also a large area around it in terms of heavy traffic, double-parking, frustrated...

As soon as Tim's closed the location nearby on Front St (now Jack Astor's) I assumed they'd open a new one here. But then when they opened that location down on Jarvis and Esplanade, I wasn't sure. I'd think this was too many locations close together (with a third Tim's just on the other side of...

Actually that's a really great observation, I consider myself quite unremarkable and have a pretty small social circle but it's amazing how many times people will remember or recognize me from previous interactions in the city. I've had bartenders and baristas recognize me at random places in...

The first thing that comes to mind when I hear discussions about city people (any city) being unfriendly is a book I read about a woman who moved from small town South Carolina to New York City. After her first few days in the city she noticed that her face and neck were hurting. She didn't...

I wish them the best, but that location seems to be doomed. An ever-changing series of bars and restaurants have each barely lasted a year. Its a weird no-man's land with few pedestrians compared to the nearby streets, and most cars are just barreling past on their way to the DVP. Perhaps once...

I never thought I'd see the day: sidewalks are going in on the east side of Sherbourne St south of Front St. Toronto is now truly world class at last.