"Some more enlightened places offer incentives to encourage building owners to do the work, as part of a larger initiative to revive their central cores. It would be nice to see something of this sort in some of our neighbourhoods in T.O."
I understand that there are some such incentives in place here, but as with so many other things in TO, they seem laughably insufficient for a city of this size. An excellent example of a strip that would benefit enormously from beefed up incentives of this kind (in addition to many others around town) is the stretch of Yonge north of Wellesley, mentioned in another thread. There are several rows of potential beauties along there that are effectively hiding in plain sight due to their cruddy state of repair. I suspect that the majority of people walking along Yonge aren't even aware that these are historic structures until it's drawn to their attention - imo, this is due entirely to the current condition of the buildings, and not to any of their inherent properties.
shawn:
"People with blazers that have silk-screened words on them."
Seriously?
