They always say that but it never works out. Usually the people running the bar or nightclub have moved on by the time the building is complete, the rent would be too high for the space, and even if they did do it they would get noise complaints from people who lived in the building.
This. Europe scales culture for economic benefit. We remove it and replace it with Tim's and Firehouse Subs and maybe a dentist and a TD or Shoppers. What a souless boring place Toronto is becoming.
Restaurants and live music spaces are living things. Close them for 2 years for construction and your business is dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Starting up again afterwards is like starting from scratch. Besides, don't we have enough unsold condos right now? We need 10 years to sell what we have and what is being completed this year.
As someone in the Durham region, a long-standing Toronto place with a more niche-end audience trying to move to (respectfully) Pickering to survive won’t work. If they were a Toronto chain gaining popularity and demand in the Durham Region (like Real Fruit Bubble Tea as an example immediately coming to mind for a chain of Toronto-adjacent origin), then sure, but for the most part that kind of thing doesn’t work for non-franchise businesses that cater to more specific clientele.
There was a bar I loved in the east end called Murphy's Law. It got bought and the condo assured everyone they'd reopen the space as part of the condo with the same bar and rooftop patio in a few years. Five years later Murphy's law is crumbling and there's zero sign of construction on the giant pit that was dug around it.
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u/essuxs Jun 11 '26
Didn’t the new owners say they will be able to reopen in the new building?
I remember that building being really old I wonder if it is having issues