Spadina Avenue high-rise not a bar for height By Annemarie Brissenden A 25-storey, 334-unit apartment building is providing the model for a new mixed-student residence at the northwest corner of Spadina and Sussex avenues, but not in the way local residents’ associations would like. “It’s effectively the same height as 666 [Spadina Ave.],” said Scott […]
NEWS (OCTOBER 2016): Preventing a wall of towers
October 28th, 2016 · Comments Off on NEWS (OCTOBER 2016): Preventing a wall of towers
Spadina club sues police
February 2nd, 2016 · Comments Off on Spadina club sues police
The Comfort Zone has filed a $23-million lawsuit against the Toronto Police Service (TPS) and former police chief Bill Blair, alleging the parties abused their powers to put the Spadina Avenue after-hours club out of business. After discovering that a 26-year-old man had been seen at the club just hours before his death as a […]
Catching up with history
May 27th, 2014 · Comments Off on Catching up with history
One Spadina Crescent embraces the past and welcomes the future By Annemarie Brissenden With its grey facade looming eerily behind a chain-link fence, One Spadina Crescent seemed destined to become the ramshackle province of ghosts. Instead, the nineteenth-century Gothic revival building is undergoing an ambitious renovation that will transform it into the new home of […]
Annex post office closure will inconvenience locals
September 20th, 2012 · Comments Off on Annex post office closure will inconvenience locals
Station P, near Bloor and Spadina, will move to the Bloor and Ossington area this fall By Victoria Prouse Annex residents will soon have to travel much farther to reach a full-service post office. Canada Post recently announced that in October, Station P will be relocated from its current site at 704 Spadina Ave., just […]