One of Toronto’s landmark buildings is up for sale: the Gooderham Building, a.k.a. the Flatiron, in St. Lawrence Market. Opened in 1892, the building was designed for the Gooderham family to house the offices of the Gooderham and Worts distillery; the family sold the building in the 1950s. It is currently owned by Woodcliffe, which [...]

This week’s grand opening of the first phase of the Shops of Summerhill wielded a small, but spirited, blow against the encroachment of big-box stores in urban Toronto. Previously known by locals for the past thirty-some years as “The Five Thieves,” the European-style shops (a butcher, a baker, a fishmonger, a greengrocer, a florist, and [...]