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I guess -- but I can't imagine anyone seriously arguing that Yonge is Thornhill's retail core.
Well, for lack of anything else, i.e. you might as well be questioning whether Thornhill has a retail core *at all*...
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I guess -- but I can't imagine anyone seriously arguing that Yonge is Thornhill's retail core.
IOn the other hand, there are definitely a bunch of restaurants on that stretch of Yonge that are popular with the locals. Ginza is always packed, and Indian Kitchen does okay right next to it (as does the bubble tea place on the other side of Ginza, come to think of it) on the southwest corner of Yonge and Clark. The huge Korean restaurant on the northwest corner, at the top of what is, in fairness, a much nicer version of the usual strip mall. The Persian pomegranate juice store in the same mall. The Persian nut store across the street. Heck, I guess it'll be torn down eventually to make way for the megadevelopment, but lots of people eat at Galleria (the enormous Korean grocery store/mall). And at Nino d'Aversa right by it.
Well, for lack of anything else, i.e. you might as well be questioning whether Thornhill has a retail core *at all*...
You're right, overall, that there are some "hot spots" between Clark and Yonge but clearly they are car-driven, rather than pedestrian-driven spots. I'm just saying the strip closer to Centre Street has some nice buildings but they're scattered and a lot have non-retail uses.
Well, for lack of anything else, i.e. you might as well be questioning whether Thornhill has a retail core *at all*...
It doesn't really. There isn't much more to it than Thistletown or a myriad of half-forgotten former villages in suburban Toronto. It's only because it's in the 905 that it's as well recognized as it is.
It doesn't really. There isn't much more to it than Thistletown or a myriad of half-forgotten former villages in suburban Toronto. It's only because it's in the 905 that it's as well recognized as it is.
Thistletown's a bad choice, because it has a very defined and active retail core at Albion + Islington--all the more so now that's been Little India-ized...
Olde Thornhill isn't much of a retail hotspot because Promenade and a few other plazas stole its thunder. Yonge isn't much of a main street through here, but that could change, given all the development proposed for it, but who knows what the retailscape will actually end up looking like. If Thornhill was to throw off its Markham and Vaughan masters, the only sensible option would be to become its own municipality, not to join Richmond Hill. Thornhill wouldn't be small - it'd have like 115,000 people, and that's before all these developments (like the Langstaff lands), which could easily bump Thornhill over 150,000. Thornhill does have a fairly distinct local identity.
Markham and Vaughan both treat TH like the ass-end of their municipalities and it's really ironic if you look at map that the greatest density etc is in this far corner of each. The idea of secession is appealing and logically, SOMETHING should be done to give Thornhill some legal unity but, practically, speaking, as much as they often ignore the area, neither Markham nor Vaughan would let that tax base get away.