[LUVIT!]

Plus it has Planet fitness. A good affordale gym for many folks including me.

 

[Towered]

While I agree with replacing it..........I must say, much as with its western cousin Dufferin Mall (albeit the latter is much larger)......... Gerrard Square is pretty close to fully tenanted and surprisingly busy.

Anchored by Walmart, Home Depot and Food Basics, with Staples in there as well, and a few other national brand retailers and a very modest food court. It does more traffic than you would think.

Not saying it's not busy (I've been there quite a few times, even recently to pop into GameStop), but I think it sucks and would welcome something much more appropriate (Mirvish comes to mind, or the Well!)

 

[flonicky]

 

[Lenser]

Bring it on, I say. I like that Vietnamese place well enough but that strip mall as a whole is dowdy and banal... time for this stretch to get some rejuvenation.

 

[AlbertC]

Maybe one day we'll find someone who loves Gerrard Square the way kade loves the Lawrence Allen Centre.

 

[Lenser]

Gerrard Square felt like a blight in the early 80s! It really hasn't changed much. It does have some good shops and services but it's just such an eyesore.

 

[myself]

incredible disrespect to the architectural marvel that is the gerrard square pyramid. some say this was the inspiration for the less famous louvre pyramid.

 

[Lenser]

True dat... I go there to worship its mystical qualities on a regular basis. Seen from atop the parking garage it is a stunning vision of almost hallucinatory intensity.

 

[HousingNowTO]

BlogTO does the BlogTO headline thing -

Toronto restaurant might be demolished for new condo

A Toronto Vietnamese restaurant is among the businesses that could be displaced by a planned condominium development that would rise next to a busy n…

www.blogto.com

 

[Lenser]

BlogTO... must be written entirely by AI these days. Heck, it even read like AI years ago. Something so lazy and reflexive about that site.

 

[AlbertC]

They need an extra adjective to make the headline a smidge more clickbaity:

"[Beloved] or [Iconic] Toronto restaurant might be demolished for new condo"

 

[JBR]

They need an extra adjective to make the headline a smidge more clickbaity:

"[Beloved] or [Iconic] Toronto restaurant might be demolished for new condo"

You forgot to add “and Toronto is mad”

 

[abp10]

Buyout gerrard square and redevelop it and do a whole masterplan or something that mall is horrible but then you also have to feel for the oldies that go and chill out there everyday where are they supposed to go or the people that shopped at the nofrills they probably resort to the food basics there

 

[LUVIT!]

I always thought when walking by that this property (and the row of houses along the east side perhaps) would be incorporated into any future proposal and redevelopment of Gerrard Square.

 

[Lenser]

I know a bar owner on the Danforth who grew up on Marjory Street. He said it was a pretty hardscrabble area back in the 60s and 70s. It's that tiny street living in the hulking shadow of Gerrard Square. What was there before Gerrard Square, I wonder? Will the esteeemed historians of UT step up and enlighten a guy?