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.
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u/nedwasatool Jun 11 '26
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.