CPR Canadian Holiday Train will be in the Junction Saturday, December 01, 2012

 



 

The Canadian Holiday Train will be in the Junction

Saturday, December 01, 2012

5:30 p.m., 750 Runnymede Rd,

in front of CP Lambton yard office,

Entertainers on the Canadian train include Doc Walker, Miss Emily, and theBrothers Dube.

 

 

Councillor Gord Perks gets control by-law passed to mitigate impacts of the high concentration of restaurants and bars in Queen St area

 

This post is about the Control By-law for Queen Street West, between Dufferin Street and Roncesvalles Avenue, an Interim Control By-law for a period of one year to prohibit (new) restaurants and similar uses in the study area, to prohibit these uses above the ground floor of buildings, and to prohibit rear yard and rooftop patios associated with these uses.

the motion for the study

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Below are highlighted text outtakes from the Now Magazine article on the ban,

click image to visit their site to read the entire article.

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Outtake text from the Motion without Notice as passed

Similar restaurant studies conducted further east on a portion of Queen Street West, on a portion of College Street, and on a portion of Ossington Avenue all identified conflicts between restaurants and the surrounding neighbourhood areas. All of these studies resulted in zoning by-law amendments that limited restaurant and related uses to the ground floor of a building and prohibited rear yard and rooftop patios in the study areas. As a result of these studies City Planning recommended that restaurants be restricted to the ground floor of buildings and that rear yard and rooftop patios should be prohibited in commercial residential zones in the former City of Toronto south of Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue within the enacted and repealed City wide comprehensive zoning by-law.

To view complete City final report about the issue click text  below.

Queen Street West – Interim Control By-law – Final
Report

$125,000 grant for Town Square project! Sorauren Park Town Square

$125,000 grant for Town Square project!

The City of Toronto’s Live Green Toronto program has awarded a grant to the Sorauren Park Town Square project through its 2012 Capital Projects Fund.

The non-profit, community-based Wabash Building Society (WBS), which advocates for the completion of Sorauren Avenue Park, filed the successful grant application. The Live Green Toronto grant will provide up to a maximum of $125,000 for the Town Square project, subject to the following conditions:

$40,000 of the grant is contingent on the WBS achieving its community Purchase A Paver fundraising goal of $40,000; and
$85,000 is contingent on the WBS securing matching funds from other funding organizations.
“We’re thrilled with this support and the matching-grant approach of Live Green Toronto,” says WBS volunteer chair Doug Bennet. “This means we’ll be able to leverage the funding to eventually secure $250,000, rather than having a single $125,000 grant.”

Thanks to strong community support, the Purchase A Paver campaign is well on its way to reaching its $40,000 goal, with more than $23,000 raised to date, and pledges that will substantially increase that total. Every dollar counts! Now is the time to donate if you haven't done so already; tax receipts issued and you can donate online or by

Click here for story at their site



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Junction Flea at 2797-2803 Dundas St. W. second Sunday of every month

The blog is quite happy there is a flea coming to The Junction, this really is a great engagement as their no other flea close by. In addition it may bring to the area a greater number designer/ makers of the new craft movement that has spring up over the last decade in Toronto. Perhaps the  wares of some local objects collectors!

Fleas in today's old is new and simply made is great craft activities have created a new cultural milieu that is open to a great wide girth people of all interests and monetary condition's as oposed to the other fine craft movement.

Take a look at the Brooklyn Flea.

This flea coupled with the upcoming farmers market and the coming Junction Fine Craft and Art Marketplace show, all in the Junction really are necessarily to solidify the cultural identity.

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from their site,

ABOUT

The Junction Flea is Toronto's newest west side outdoor flea market presented bySMASH and Russet&Empire. Held on the second Sunday of every month in the summertime, the Junction Flea features a mix of select independent vendors selling antiques, handmade craft+design, food, vintage clothing, records and more.

If you are interested in becoming a vendor or would like more information please contact us at hello@junctionflea.com
We'd love to hear from you.

Morrow Ave. the most beautiful redefined street in the greater Junction Area?

Morrow Ave has been transformed over the last 15 years from the industrial street it was to a series of redefined buildings. These buildings now redeveloped house an art gallery of much merit, a loft development project and a series of other thought based businesses types. Oh yes and wonder Home Hardware.

This avenue is really worth a stroll particularly in Sunday's when it's quite quiet and the parked car and weekday business bustle is absent.

Here a little photo tour.



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junctiontriangle.ca blog has a great post about the 299 Campbell Ave. Condo Pre-Application Meeting

This is rock solid post with lots of info and images.

 

Click on the image to visit their site.

 

Old Canada Bread factory photo grouping of opening up of formerly bricked up back windows.

1st much thanks to reader Jimi Fir alerting the blog to this.

The factory now being converted into artist studios has a wonderful transformation at its rear.

The windowed bricked up
For so long are being shod of their bricks.


Inside the northern most space.


Inside looking towards the CPR tracks at doors that once held the opening for the waste doors for the bakery.


Track side view

3 out of 11 farmers coming to the Junction Farmers Market grow food in the GTA.

Plain simple post,



 

Hey folks , other markets in the GTA have urban farmers, but not as many as the Junction farmers market does do. 3 out of 11 farmers selling at the Junction Farmers Market food in the GTA.

 



 



 

 

 

Dream Bakery for the Junction

here goes...

While we have a Vegan bakery- Bunners for which the community is so lucky, and which many people consider a luxury, there are many of us that are not so inclined to vegetarianism nor always super healthy treats or breads.   We have lots of emtpy store fronts in the Junction even whole  buildings, many of which would be great spaces for producing   beautiful, naturally leavened whole-grain bread, delectable seasonal preserves, and granola for all of us (ok not this author) crunchy-granola types! say one with a milling room where we can purchase fresh milled flour own flour from local grower farms. Plus, a wood-fired brick oven that can also be fired with biomass briquettes manufactured from spent grain from one of the local micro brewery's that are opening in the area, such as the Indie Ale House.

Operationally for success this would probably have to be a licensed  commercial kitchen  so the operator will be sell at farmers markets, wholesale to restaurants and grocery stores.

Please do come!

Here are some facebook links to the type of foodie establishments that would be great , these are example from the Chicago area

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  Three Sisters Garden
  

  
  

  
  


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  Kings Hill Farm CSA and Market Garden
  

  
  

  
  


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  Snookelfritz Ice Cream Artistry
  

  
  

  
  

 

130 Cawthra Ave old Canada Bread facility ...nu artist range!

Finally after a few decades of non existent artist and designer  space in the Junction after many decades an abundance of space before the lull the Junction area is getting a purpose renovated building for the purpose. Some interesting changes are taking place with loading docks becoming entryways.

 

Are we getting our 400 Duffern  Ave. Block?

hope so...

 



 



 



 

 

 

323 Keele Street GREAT LAKES COLLEGE OF TORONTO

Posted from a request in a comment requesting info on the building.

As much as the blog knows it was a office building in the 70s and 80s, during the late 70s and early 80s the third floor was the local Junior Achievement office.

 



 



 

Artists in the Hood fundraiser for the Town Square

Part proceeds to Wabash Building Society for the Town Square fund.

The Stockyard retail block 30 Weston Rd current works photos

 

Ground works for the huge Stockyards mall at Weston Rd and Keele St. is moving along with drains and water mains installation currently.

Photo post of the site Wednesday April 2nd 2012.