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ABCRA Fall 2024 Newsletter
Our Fall 2024 newsletter includes updates and news from the neighbourhood, upcoming events and opportunities to get involved in your City.
What have we been up to? Lots! We have reports on upgrades at Ramsden Park, Avenue Road safety improvements (now under construction!), art in the neighbourhood, updates on various development proposals in the works and ABCRA’s response to them, some upcoming events and opportunities to support local organizations. We’re particularly thrilled to be collaborating with Tapestry Opera to bring their free Box Concert series to Ramsden Park on Sunday, September 15 at 1:15 pm. and hope you’ll attend!
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August 2024 Newsletter
Too many pedestrians and cyclists are killed by cars. There are solutions
For too long, society accepted that death was a fact of life on the roads. It was the cost of convenience to move from A to B as fast as possible in a car. We call crashes “accidents,” even when the causes, from driver speed to road design, are deliberate choices. It’s a cultural problem that such incidents are viewed as ordinary.
Cities must redouble their efforts to make change happen.
Push. Pray. Walk: After yet another death, should Toronto replace these dangerous pedestrian crossovers?
There’s a certain anxiety that activates when some of us pedestrians push the button to activate one of Toronto’s standalone pedestrian crossovers.
You take a deep breath as the overhead orange flashing lights activate. You try your best to make eye contact with any approaching drivers. If you’re pushing a stroller, you grip the handles tightly. If you’re the religious type, maybe you say a little prayer. Perhaps you just cross your fingers while crossing the street. And you hope.
Resubmission of Development Proposal at 126-130 Avenue Rd.
On behalf of ABCRA, we want to provide feedback on the recent resubmission of the development proposal for 126-130 Avenue Rd
Our primary concern is the omission of a G type loading zone in the resubmitted proposal. Avenue Rd. is already a hazardous environment for pedestrians, a fact acknowledged by the city’s ongoing investments to enhance safety in this area. Allowing street-level garbage pick-up on either Bernard Ave. or Avenue Rd. would only exacerbate existing safety issues, placing pedestrians at even greater risk.
Toronto developer wants to plop a 10-storey tower above Annex’s oldest apartment
An application to build a 10-storey residential building above an existing 4-storey residential heritage apartment building in Toronto’s Annex neighbourhood has been submitted to the city by real estate developer ProWinko.
Help select the winning design for the Scrivener Underpass Mural Project
COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
Wednesday, July 3, 2024, 5 to 7 p.m.
Coco Market, 1064 Yonge Street (back patio)
The ABCRA has been working with StreetARToronto on the Scrivener Square Underpass Mural Project, which began this spring. Five artists, selected by an external Advisory Committee have been shortlisted and will present their designs in response to the Scrivener Underpass Mural Project request for proposals.
To choose the winning mural design, the city has arranged an on-line survey and in-person community engagement event. The survey will be live from June 26 until 11:55 a.m., July 12.
Another One? Mizrahi’s second Yorkville condo project now in receivership
A receivership order granted last Tuesday, June 4, has appointed KSV Advisory as the receiver and manager over the property at 126–128 Hazelton Avenue in Toronto. The order effectively allows KSV to exercise control over the property moving forward.
Constantine Enterprises Inc. (CEI), which has a 50 per cent stake in the condo project at 128 Hazelton Ave., first made a plea for receivership back in February, with court documents showing that CEI filed for KSV to manage and possibly sell the project to recover debts, identifying Sam Mizrahi as the principal of both Mizrahi 128 Hazelton Inc. and Mizrahi 128 Hazelton Retail Inc.
Troubled condo project The One looking for $1.2-billion sale – or else lenders won’t unload it
The receiver for The One condo tower is seeking to sell Sam Mizrahi’s unfinished skyscraper, saying creditors won’t accept anything less than $1.2-billion for the troubled project.
The One’s lenders are owed $1.5-billion after Mr. Mizrahi and the tower’s co-owner, road-paving magnate Jenny Coco, defaulted on loan payments during the construction of the luxury condo and hotel tower in downtown Toronto.
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Help select the winning design for the Scrivener Underpass Mural Project
COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
Wednesday, July 3, 2024, 5 to 7 p.m.
Coco Market, 1064 Yonge Street (back patio)
The ABCRA has been working with StreetARToronto on the Scrivener Square Underpass Mural Project, which began this spring. Five artists, selected by an external Advisory Committee have been shortlisted and will present their designs in response to the Scrivener Underpass Mural Project request for proposals.
To choose the winning mural design, the city has arranged an on-line survey and in-person community engagement event. The survey will be live from June 26 until 11:55 a.m., July 12.