The Scarborough Mirror East, August 25, 2016

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When Mark Garner first visited Yonge Street south of Bloor, it was the late 1970s and like many young people of the era, he came from a distance – in his case, all the way in from Scarborough – for the famous street’s sometimes seedy but ir res i st ib le ch a r m s : in those days, rows of video arcades and record stores, movie theatres, music venues, bookstores, and the then-fresh glass cavern of the Eaton Centre. If he were born a few years later, it might have been the early and evolving annual Pride parades that drew him downtown, or BuskerFest, or So much has changed in North By Northeast. downtown Toronto since the But these days, 1970s. Today, redevelopment is Garner – who is now executive director of taking place more rapidly than the Downtown Yonge ever, putting pressure on the Business Improvement few open public spaces in the Area (BIA) – is watching downtown core. the exploding redevelopment of Yonge Street As part of a series of ongoing major developments near Yonge and Gerrard streets, and other avenues in the the buildings behind Mark Garner, executive director of the Downtown Yonge BIA, downtown core, with will soon be replaced with several large condo properties. more than a faint worry Benjamin Priebe/METROLAND that without significant

change, those kinds of memories might be confined to an era. “These streets are the same streets I walked on as a kid from Scarborough,” he says. “They have not gotten any wider at all. They’ve poured new concrete, but this is the same street.” The street is the same but the buildings around soon will not be. The 80-storey Aura condominium tower at Yonge and Gerrard streets is currently the tallest condominium in the country. In a few years, it will be just the eighth tallest in Toronto, as new towers at Elm Street, Yonge and Gerrard, and Yonge and Bloor take form. And other buildings will occupy what has been useful open space in the neighbourhoods surrounding Yonge Street: the surface parking lots on Bay Street and, more crucially, Church Street to the east. When those go, so goes concert and marshalling spaces for the annual Pride Parade, and smaller festivals like BuskerFest and North >>>RAPIDLY, page 8

Markham Road set for Tamil Fest Expected to be Scarborough’s largest-ever street festival, the second annual Tamil Fest is set for this weekend on Markham Road, south of Steeles Avenue. The festival runs from this Friday evening through to Sunday. For members of the Greater Toronto Area’s Tamil community, the festival is a chance to celebrate food, entertainment and more. For food vendors, it’s a chance to sell Tamil favourites such as kothu roti, masala dosa, mutton rolls and hoppers to a wider, hungry public. Last year’s inaugural festival in the Morningside Heights area was so popular that organizers, the Canadian Tamil Congress, moved to Markham Road to accomodate larger crowds and offer more parking facilities for those expected to attend from across the GTA and beyond. Tamil Fest will include a midway, merchants and scores of street performers on the road. Also, students of Scarborough’s Aathi Silambam Martial Arts Academy, the only Canadian school for a South Indian martial art banned by British colonizers but passed down through families will be presenting displays. For more information, please visit www.tamilfest.ca

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