sam1025
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This might be a bit off topic, but does anyone know if TIFF will be moving all the screenings here?.... If so, I think it might have a bit of impact on the area in terms of what stores and restaurants are built on King W!
This might be a bit off topic, but does anyone know if TIFF will be moving all the screenings here?.... If so, I think it might have a bit of impact on the area in terms of what stores and restaurants are built on King W!
dt is correct. the festival will continue to be spread out across downtown venues. when TIFF group says that the lightbox will be the new home of TIFF, they mean that it will serve as a year-round headquarters and provided offices for their employees. there will be TIFF related activities and workshops when the actual festival is not on.
Well the way King St is being built up, I'm sure many of those "posh" stores will open up near or around Tiff lightbox/King st W.
Except that almost all the theatres around Bloor WILL be transferring down to the LightBox (No Varsity, Isabel Bader, etc.). In my view, once Ritz/Shangri-La/Trump/550 Wellington are complete, Yorkville will completely lose any connection to TIFF.
So true. Who would want a charming, human-scaled environment with individual shopfronts on multiple planes, all the result of many years of urban layering when you could have bland, corporatized, insta-architecture with dry cleaners and convenience stores in the base?
Don't hold your breath.