xmyth_ said:
I recently noticed that Parkdale has hosted the pin & patch show, as well as the stationary show to great success. Big line ups. There’s also a holiday art fest coming up in Regent park. The antique market is still going on in the south tent. I feel like they need to make themselves more available to event people in this city, even if it means not pulling in a profit for the first bit. It should be a hub. I do know TikTok Canada held a recent event there.
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The problem is that the 'marketing' of the North market (and St Lawrence Hall is done by people who may know about real estate management but appear to know nothing of leasing and promotion.
 
UtakataNoAnnex said:
I suspect most of the city is ran mostly fine considering it's size, complexity and infrastructure. However, I will agree that certain areas and assets (such as this one) needs to be looked into and given account for. As I also agree that between Rob Ford penny pinching, glaring incompetence, misaligned priorities and provincial interference over the years hasn't helped much, but that doesn't give them the excuse for building and maintaining a multi-million dollar public facility that sits mostly empty for the year, IMO.
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I also think that govt, like any big corporation likely has a lot of people who gave up on having ideas. Three people making decisions is fine, five can be unruly, get to six regional heads of eight municipal committees - nobody with sense is going to bother trying to propose new ideas, just maintain the status quo.
 
xmyth_ said:
I also think that govt, like any big corporation likely has a lot of people who gave up on having ideas. Three people making decisions is fine, five can be unruly, get to six regional heads of eight municipal committees - nobody with sense is going to bother trying to propose new ideas, just maintain the status quo.
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To be fair, government shouldn't be ran like a business or a corporation...

...that said though, I do believe the issues I outlined in my reply have given those responsible here reasons to fudge, noodle and/or flounder where they could of been doing the right things. No system is perfect...but giving incentives for it to trip itself up most of the time is certainly moving away from perfection being it's goal.
 
AlexBozikovic said:
The city just conducted a process to choose a new tenant for Sundays only.


https://www.stlawrencemarket.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/Sunday Use REOI Application 2025 dpv3.pdf
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VERY interesting - I assume that they are 'running behind schedule!

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DSCToronto said:
I see someone finally realised that they need blinds - at least for the sun.

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It's the little things that come back to bite you in the butt. I recall reading about the original design, how it took into account for the market facing south, so they set it back under an awning. Instead, the city cheaped out, moved the windows closer and virtually eliminated the awning and now they have to go back and correct it with some curtains.

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Notice how far back the east section is set to avoid mid day sun and the west section has louvres performing the same role. All of that was thrown out in the shitification.
 
nightstreak said:
It's the little things that come back to bite you in the butt. I recall reading about the original design, how it took into account for the market facing south, so they set it back under an awning. Instead, the city cheaped out, moved the windows closer and virtually eliminated the awning and now they have to go back and correct it with some curtains.

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Notice how far back the east section is set to avoid mid day sun and the west section has louvres performing the same role. All of that was thrown out in the shitification.
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First we had The Cheapening; now we have The Shitification 🤣 @Amare would be proud!
 
AlexBozikovic said:
The architecture got vastly worse through the cheapening. But that’s the way of the world.

Why after 15 years of process this building is not properly open to the public… That is inexplicable.
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The simple explanation is that it is ''managed' by Corporate Real Estate Services who are not experienced in commercial/retail leasing. It was obvious it would eventually open so it IS inexplicably why no effort seems to have been made to rent out the restaurant on 1st floor or the coffee shop or ?? on the south west corner of the ground floor - that's to say nothing about the "seniors' centre' on the 1st floor.
 
They'd be better off just hiring Osmington to manage the leasing. They'd probably make a lot more money paying them than having it sit empty.
 
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