adma
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No one is clamouring for the preservation of the Sam building itself and that's pretty telling.
Though ironically, the "north" Sam address was a listed property--in its pre-Sam-signed form as Steele's Tavern, a mansarded Victorian thing--and the removal of the Sam signs revealed not only that the mansarded Victoriana was two-unit, but Sam's was heavier-handed in its treatment of the listed north unit. And all in all, the "Yonge preservationist" crowd *could* have had a reasonable (if futile) case for the Sam building, by insisting upon, at the very least, some kind of "Five condo" solution, or something... (But, what's done is done.)