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cutine: artist's drawing of an Aura condo suite College Park condo set to top Eaton’s vision Stephen Weir, for Metro Canada 13 November 2008 01:31 (The subway newspaper Metro - owned in part by the Star - picked up my College Park story from the Star, edited and added a couple of sidebars that they found on this website.) The article had two pictures. College Park is on the upswing of a roller-coaster ride of boom, bust and boom all over again. A revitalized Eaton’s College Park building, with its iconic, five-star Carlu Hall, has reignited an economic fascination for one of downtown Toronto’s most prestigious and historic blocks, bounded by College, Gerrard, Bay and Yonge streets. Canderel Stoneridge is poised to begin construction of Aura, a 75-storey condominium tower just south of College Park at the corner of Yonge and Gerrard. The residential skyscraper will cover the last street level parking lot along Yonge Street downtown. It will create a vertical community of close to...

On Saturday November 8th, the Toronto Star ran a major feature I wrote about the downtown Toronto city block of College Park. The 3-page story appeared on the cover of the Condo section. There was no room to place the attached sidebar.The actual article appears above (scroll up) 777 Bay Street Dollarrama. University of Ryerson students ‘08 version of an Eaton’s department store. What you can buy there for a dollar: • Individual plates, cups, glasses and cutlery • 3 movies on 1 DVD including Peter Lorre in Mr. Moto’s Last Warning • Pregnancy test kit • Deluxe can of Vienna Sausages • Bendable pen in the shape of a dolphin • 100 sheets of paper • Squeezy container of bright yellow paint • CD album case covered in poodle pictures • Energy star light bulb • Box of Uncle Ben’s rice

* On Saturday November 8th, the Toronto Star ran a major feature I wrote about the downtown Toronto city block of College Park. The 3-page story appeared on the cover of the Condo section. There was no room to place the attached sidebar. The actual article appears above (scroll up) 7 Things To Do At the College Park Block • Renew your driver’s license in the giant ServiceOntario Centre -- basement of 777 Bay • Witness people loose their driver’s licenses in provincial criminal court. Justice system at work on the 2nd Floor College Park • Photograph the Three Watchmen Totem Poles carved by Haida artist Robert Davidson in 1984 to mark the city’s Sesquicentennial year. The work is made up a 50 foot and two 30 foot totem poles – center mall 777 Bay Street • Do something nice – dig deep and take in a charity event at Carlu • Get off the subway buy dinner in the College Park Dominion Store (soon to be Metro store) and get onto the College streetcar before your transfer times out • Dangl...