Redroom Studios
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nice ultra modern building, though I'm not a fan of the putting green on the roof! hopefully thats just a metaphor for a rooftop garden...
But Broadview isn't in Leslieville--so the project name is misleading.
Maybe someone will buy jilly's and turn it into a hipster strip bar? That would be interesting.
In regards to the Jilly's sign I keep bugging my wife, that she could make some good tips waitressing there
Technically this is not in Leslieville, Leslieville runs from Empire to Greenwood along Queen but the boundries have always been disputed.
There aren't any official boundaries. Leslieville (and any other neighbourhood for that matter) is whatever people say it is -- people will have different views. There is no "technically" about it. For some neighbourhoods, there is pretty wide consensus as to where neighbourhood starts and ends, but Leslieville and Riverdale (to name two examples) are not among them.
BIA monickers and boundaries do not a neighbourhood make.
I'm not going by the BIA signs, but traditionally Leslieville is considered east/south of the tracks that cut diagonally through the nabe, anything west of the tracks south of dundas was, untill recently referred to as Queen/Broadview village or as I have always called it growing up QB.
Riverdale encompasses both areas, but Jimmy Simpson has always been the western boundary of the leslieville strip.
No long term resident would ever call queen/broadview leslieville, those are the recent transplants.
I would entirely agree with you if we were debating the eastern edge which is defined by a series of sidestreets, which would make it very difficult to determine what starts and ends where. The tracks make a boundary which is hardly debatable, much like the don valley being the eastern edge of Cabbagetown. I don't think anyone on Broadview would say that they are a part of cabbagetown. Or that the rosedale valley is the southern edge of Rosedale.
By your logic Rosedale continues along the north side of Danforth all the way to Woodbine, which it most certainly doesn't. The west/north side of the tracks are in no way, or ever will be Leslieville.
Neighbourhood boundaries are what people say they are. Not only do various opinions differ at any given point in time, but opinions also change over time. These things are in flux. You can come up with all the ridiculous examples you want about Rosedale, but the truth is a lot of people are calling the area west of the tracks Leslieville. And just because you strongly disagree does not make them wrong.
Lamb has his own development company called Lamb Development Corp.
Has had this since 2001. Lamb Corp is also doing Work Lofts and is targeting the East side. Brad Lamb Realty will sell the projects and will probably refuse to
co-operate with brokers unless sales are really slow, thus saving on commission paid out.
Horizontal integration sure is sweet.