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Newsstand: July 30, 2015
It's airport tunnel day! Happy airport tunnel day! In the news: police are investigating a small shower of concrete chunks at Yonge-Dundas Square, the Billy Bishop airport tunnel finally (finally!) opens, and Jilly's gets stripped.
“It’s raining concrete chunks” doesn’t have a great ring, and it’s even worse in practice. Police have cordoned off the area around 21 Dundas Square, at Yonge-Dundas Square after hunks of concrete fell from the building’s doorway and onto the busy pedestrian square. While nobody was injured by the infrastructural downpour, police are investigating the safety of the area.
Feeling a little dust in your eye over happy memories with old friends? You’re in luck: design studio Bread&Butter Designs is repurposing into furniture the wooden joists from the former Jilly’s strip club at Queen and Broadview. The 122-year-old building was snapped up by Streetcar Developments last year, and is slated to become a boutique hotel.
The 240-metre-long, $82.5 million pedestrian tunnel at Billy Bishop airport opens today, a year later than initially planned. It’s a good thing we’re infinitely patient.