New tattoo shop

New shop at Dundas St W. and Runnymede Rd next to dance studio

 

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Junction loses excellent store

The Junction is losing a one of it's most undue stores. Below is a screen cap from the website.
This store in one of the most difficult parts of the strip to run a store from has become a fixture for a large client base. It's loss will greatly affect this part of the Junction.

Green Lavender, hope you can again choose the Junction when you reopen.

Brooklyn street furniture for tree pits

 

One of the items especially troublesome in the in Junction is restaurant lineups that can occur sometimes in the Junction. Sunday mornings can be bad. The problem is much more insidious in  Brooklyn. Yet a local Brooklyn business booster group got a much of artists to come up with some designs and some such as the one above provide not only a great place to sit while waiting for table but just for chatting.

 

 

 

Junction auto body firm moving or opening new location?

Iconic Junction auto body firm Martino Bros (3379 Dundas Street W) has a sign outside of this building conversion at Dixon Rd and the 401, relativity positioned as to indicate their use of the building.

Four store line for Design Crawl hotdogs at

MjoLK


Friday night Junction design crawl.

Venture just outside greater Junction area for lunch

Venture just outside greater Junction area for lunch or supper towards Etobicoke just before Royal York Rd. and you will find Magoos burger restaurant, a popular eatery, well known for its burgers and especially their application of cheese and mushrooms.

Plenty of parking as its in a strip mall.

MAGOO'S GOURMET HAMBURGERS & ICE-CREAM

4242 Dundas Street West , Etobicoke.

Spotlight On: Keele centre 500 Keele St

 



Keele Centre the Intermodal freight transport building built by the CPR in the 70's to offset the gaining role of trucks offsetting train transportation is undergoing roof repair work.

This great industrial building  which still provides light commercial space, having let go the heavy industry that once monopolized the building, the buiding  is in this author opinion a necessarily and valuable part of keeping some industrial nature in the Junction. One of its strengths is it relative distance from most of the residential occupation in the area.

In addition it is a very beautiful  monolithic structure, and a tough building  once when the authors studio was there, a hole had to cut (rather chopped)  though the roof, 3 exhausted artists and  2 days later it was done (80's). Other than the curtain walls between units, which are made of concrete block, and come and go as required by renters the structure is a reinforced concrete wonder.

Now the building is home to a wide group of firms a bespoke design/build studio (windows on south front visible from Keele Ave.  This unit reflects a common shared artistic history of the building from the 80's with a number of industrial designers and craft-persons using the unit.

One of  Canada's best stained glass craftpersons is there.

A music practice studio, along with a host  other smaller concerns.

About the only item missing is the fighter jet that sat on the site for decades.

 

 

 

 

 

Park wanting

 

 

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A few weeks ago a meeting was held with the parks department regarding upcoming changes to Vine Ave parkette. During the meeting a parks representative stated that Vine parkette had a lot (sic) and many other parks had less.  A few of the residents in attendance stated that maybe the park reno for Vine Ave parkette should go to another park.

This author began to wonder about that idea. If Vine Ave parkette is well provided for, as the parks person statement suggested and other parks were were in greater need and  were not getting the investment they needed. Wouldn't it serve the greater and broader community by applying all or part of funding to a near by park that sorely needed a overhaul.

One scenario could have been to purchase a place a needed piece of equipment for Vine Ave. parkette for the mid teens as has been suggested  is needed, and using the other funds to help out a problem park nearby.

Next on the thought  and discovery agenda was to ascertain if there was such a park nearby. A look at the cities website and a few Google map look-ups presented a few parks with a ten minutes of travel  from Vine Ave. parkette.

Upon visiting a few parks,  Westlake Park at 86 Jasper Ave. leaped  out as park in need with ramshackle play equipment and not much of it. The parks curb appeal is not there and  design and objects for protection of runabout children  is weak. The park does have beautiful green hills and sloping vistas that are well maintained.   Situated next to a social housing estate, the need is much greater.

 

 

Jasper Ave & Cliff Street M6N 2M8 Ward: 11  in district: Etobicoke York

A different type of mayor ten Toronto mayor - replayed from grist.org

Mayor of Vilnius takes out Mercedes parked in bike lane—with a tank [VIDEO]
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Mayor of Vilnius takes out Mercedes parked in bike lane—with a tank [VIDEO]


by Sarah Goodyear

2 Aug 2011 9:22 AM

I have a personal hero of the day, and his name is Artūras Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania.

Zuokas, who is described in news reports as an “avid cyclist” and who is bringing a bike-share program to Lithuania’s capital, staged a fairly awesome stunt (and it is clearly a stunt) the other day: He ran over a Mercedes parked in a bike lane. With an armored personnel carrier.

The whole thing is pretty obviously staged. (You have to love the “owner” of the vehicle who emerges from a store in “shock” — a hangdog middle-aged man wearing a white suit, black T-shirt, and fat gold chain.)

Cheesy though the video may be, the mayor is making a real point about privileged drivers hogging the tiny sliver of real estate reserved for bikes. It’s a problem that bike riders in New York, for instance, are all too familiar with — although here, some of the major offenders are police vehicles.

Mayor Bloomberg, any chance you might consider crushing an improperly parked NYPD cruiser in the name of bike safety? I’m sure that Mayor Zuokas would be happy to give you some tank-driving lessons. Think of it as a cultural exchange.