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Prime Riverdale was a real estate agents’ term, as I recall. Prime is normally real estate talk. Has anyone ever said “I live in Prime Cabbagetown?” It’s code for “the expensive part with lots of trees, all-brick houses, some nice setbacks, lanes, garages, gardens people take care of.”

TL/DR Riverdale: Bounded on the west by the Don River, on the south by Queen Street East, on the north by Danforth Avenue and on the east by … depends who’s drawing the map. Riverside: Bounded on the west by the Don River, on the north by Queen Street East, on the south by Lake Shore...

That Papa John’s location is fraught. The building is deep, extending all the way back to the lane, with plenty of room for a couple of storefronts on the side street. Alternatively, the setback on that side (west) is big enough for plenty of patio tables. But years ago an outdoor seating...

Street washers out around Pape & Danforth today lol. Must be a bit of dust …

Slurry operations yesterday evening.

That’s one ugly sign, and who is it that thinks Begun is a tease? Soon to be replaced with Been Delayed.

There are property owners who run businesses on their property. Then there are owners who lease space to a business. Usually it would be the owner who rents apartments to tenants on an upper floor (second or, rarely, 2nd & 3rd). Where the business is a lessee, I could see the logic of Metrolinx...

Back on the Metrolinx expropriations file: 710 Danforth was the address of the Eton Tavern, pulverized to make way for slurry silos and mixing tanks. Seems the owners haven’t reached a settlement with Metrolinx yet and have asked the OLT for “simplified mediation” — a service the tribunal...

The most recent OLT decision is from a case management conference in October 2023, where the status of participants — including the new DRAD, Danforth Residents for Appropriate Development — was certified. This is the link to that one...

Thanks! I’m a daily Star reader but missed this one. A City Hall with bigger bolls — haven’t we all wished for that, more than once? I guess Thermé will be a hydro and possibly gas customer. I imagine they’ll draw and treat their own water, but their sewage will have to go somewhere. Then...

Wanting tourists is one thing. Wanting tourists everywhere in equal numbers is quite another. It’s the last thing tourists themselves want in a city. Some come for hustle and bustle, big attractions and shopping. Some come for more intimate experiences. They don’t need to be led by the hand...

I know Fletcher isn’t the most popular councillor in the forums but isn’t it not-exactly-trivial news when you have the City issuing stop-work orders to Metrolinx and banning them from getting heavy vehicles on their site via nearby roads? Not having much knowledge about this stuff I’m...

What I like about the Langford playground is the trees and the shade they afford. Too often parks made on open space are left open, Maybe this reflects concern for visibility — no dark corners — but on hot days a park with shade trees brings relief. There’s a row of tall conifers on the south...

Pretty popular, especially in the current balmy weather. Many in Toronto know the Kawartha brand from cottage country where it began in the 1930s as a dairy gathering & processing milk from local farms. They have something like 50 flavours, including exclusives such as Sugar Shack Maple...