Toronto's Newest Improvement Area: Bloor
A new business improvement area aims to transform Toronto's most important shopping district, which has been declining rapidly.
"The scheme, conceived by Architects Alliance and Brown & Storey Architects, both of Toronto, would transform the city's most important shopping district into something quite spectacular. Sidewalks would be paved with granite and enlarged. Elegant stainless steel street furniture planters, bike racks, garbage bins, lamp standards, newspaper boxes and the like have already been designed; they are intended to help make Bloor look like the destination it is rather than the mess it has become."
Thanks to Ben Petch
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Published on Tuesday, August 12, 2003 in
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