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The Scare Goes Upscale

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2006_10_18gerrardsquare.jpgGerrard Street just east of Carlaw is a poor part of town that can get a bit scrappy. But it sports the only mall for blocks in every direction, Gerrard Square, which was for years know as “the Scare.” Now the Scare has gone upmarket, bringing in the usual cast of box stores and big franchises with more to come.
The GS website claims, “Riverdale is changing and at its heart is Gerrard Square, a refreshing urban redevelopment.” I think they’re stretching the name thing a bit, but it is refreshing — and encouraging — to see some money being invested in the area, whatever the real estate agents might call it.
If Gerrard Square isn’t your thing, you can, incidentally, browse a list of malls in Toronto thanks to Wikipedia (where, it seems, absolutely everything is written up). And I counted: there are 60 of them listed, 19 of which have a website. Happy shopping.

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  • Gloria

    The Scare? Never heard that one, and I attended high school two blocks away. I thought it was Ghetto Square.

  • Steve

    I’ve never heard it called the Scare either… I live a few blocks away and we always call it, The Mutant Mall.
    The makeover of the mall was long overdue.

  • http://kingsol.wordpress.com Dipp

    Dress her up any way you want. It’s still the same old dirty mall I grew to love as a child. Super dirty cheap psuedo-quasi-chinese food! Hurrah!
    The corp-o-stores seem tragically out of place there. Don’t mind the Tim’s though…

  • Chester Pape

    Uhm, Gerrard Square is pretty much exactly half way between Riverdale Park/Library/Hospital and Riverdale Collegiate, if it’s not in Riverdale then there must be some sort of warp in the space time continumn.

  • Patrick

    It’s North Leslieville ;)

  • sean

    I third that…i’ve lived in the east end of toronto for, well, all of my 37 years…spent many many hours in and around gerrard square…never heard it referred to as gerrard scare
    you just makin stuff up?

  • Snailspace

    No, no, according to one realtor we quickly ditched when looking for a house in May – its “Upper Beaches”!
    /bought at Main and Gerrard instead.
    /likes the square because of the Home Depot for home reno . . .

  • Gloria

    Upper Beaches. That realtor had balls.
    I have to say I haven’t heard of Mutant Mall either. How could I have been that out of touch?

  • rek

    It’s South Greektown.
    I work around the corner on Carlaw and only went to the Square for the first time two weeks ago. Terrible Chinese food.