Just east of John Street, the St. Patrick's Market building features gates and padlocks on both its main entrances. "For lease" signs are splashed across the front, while the windows encircling the century-old building are covered in grime and graffiti. And there's not much to see inside anyway: All the vendor stations are barren.
Toronto's legal team has now filed an application in Ontario's Superior Court to terminate the current tenant's lease on the historic building, CBC Toronto has learned.
And here's the catch: It was a 50-year lease signed between Toronto and the tenant back in 1989 — meaning there are still 20 years to go.
"After decades of attempts to animate this public space, we want to take it back for the city," said the area's councillor, Joe Cressy, on Tuesday.
The saga of St. Patrick's Market is indeed a long one.
More than 40 per cent of small businesses have been disrupted due to construction. Now they’re looking to Metrolinx and the city for compensation.
On march 15, 1978, I opened the Butler’s Pantry Tuck Shop on the ground floor of Applewood Place in Mississauga. It was the same year the building opened. At that point, only about 100 units had been sold. So there was no grand opening. No balloons. Just me selling everything from pasta to paper clips.
Grab-and-go brand Nom Nom’s recently debuted at Pusateri’s Fine Foods across the GTA, taking advantage of a heightened demand for fresh and prepared food and using an omnichannel approach to reach consumers.
The Nom Noms line includes international-inspired meat and plant-based protein meals and wraps, which the brand says are devoid of additives, refined sugar, and are low in sodium. Co-Founder and CEO, Lisa Sohanpal (pictured) says that she worked with local chefs to craft proprietary recipes based on authentic regional spice blends and that each dish reflects these homegrown flavours (South Indian lamb tandoori, Moroccan veggie tagine, the Korean beef wrap and the all plant wrap, for example, are a homage to the cities she visited during her years travelling as a medical device executive).
Furrier known for risking financial ruin to flout Sunday shopping laws left an indelible mark on Toronto’s retail landscape.