Collingwoodbuildinglover
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At this point, I would love to see a compilation of these overhead shots in order! It has been so awesome to watch this project go up. So far I am actually fine if it takes a little longer
I'm old enough to remember when Cumberland Terrace was upscale. In any case, Rodeo Drive has some pretty dodgy stuff on all sides.Yeah, I've never understood the people who tout Yorkville as being a bastion for luxury, when Cumberland Terrace has been there the whole damn time. I think a lot of people want us to have our own "Rodeo Drive", but the realities of the city always seem to want to prove them silly.
I challenge anyone here to walk confidently into the Prada store. I challenge anyone on this forum to *touch* anything in the Prada store
Most of the stores are void of customers, even on the busiest days. It’s almost like they overcharge to make up for big marketing budgets and low sales volume.Yorkville is pretty swanky - I challenge anyone here to walk confidently into the Prada store. I challenge anyone on this forum to *touch* anything in the Prada store. It's mildly terrifying.
Most of the stores are void of customers, even on the busiest days. It’s almost like they overcharge to make up for big marketing budgets and low sales volume.
There’s a pastiche of swank, but you’ve got Indigo, Hakim, Winners, etc. And other than a few big luxury names, a whole bunch of fly by night independent boutiques hoping to rope in gullible customers trading on the Yorkville name.
It’d be nice if we stopped trying to shoehorn in superfluous luxury stores and let it more naturally develop for the growing local, less affluent population; realtors be damned.
After all, the Devil wears Prada.Parkdalian had a bad experience at the Prada store.
Exactly. I know it’s anecdotal, but I can’t count the number of times I’ve been down the strip and just seen bored salespeople milling about and not much else.I have a friend who works for one of the luxury stores, and they say the Yorkdale location does way better in sales than the Yorkville location.
Sushi Inn's $7 lychee martinis and its tuna sushi pizza needs heritage designationI'm sure Yorkdale does so much more business than Yorkville. It's much more accessible to suburban wealth. And it's not a neighbourhood - it's a mall. Yorkville is the swankiest neighbourhood in Toronto.
The problems that zang has with the area are exactly why I have a soft spot for Yorkville. Like any, yes - swanky - neighbourhood, it has social strivers. But it also has a lot of leftovers from its time as much more downscale neighbourhood: Sushi Inn, Flo's, the Pilot, Hemingway's - sitting side by side with the Four Seasons, Alobar, Louis Vuitton, Hermes. It's a real neighbourhood with all the imperfections of a real neighbourhood.
Is Yorkville at its peak? No - it's not where it was ten, fifteen years ago. But folks, if you want to get run over by three Escalades in a row while scurrying across the road with an overpriced cappuccino and your latest Aesop purchase, Yorkville is the place to do it.
Most of the stores are void of customers, even on the busiest days. It’s almost like they overcharge to make up for big marketing budgets and low sales volume.
I remember reading somewhere that a lot of these stores rely on a small handful of loyal customers who can afford to shop there, and will buy a bunch of expensive items at the one time. Looking at Hermes's website, I see they have shirts that cost over two thousand dollars. These are not stores where just anyone off the street is popping in to shop, I'd bet the people that do are personal shoppers and assistants shopping on someone else's behalf.
I'm sure Yorkdale does so much more business than Yorkville. It's much more accessible to suburban wealth. And it's not a neighbourhood - it's a mall. Yorkville is the swankiest neighbourhood in Toronto.
The problems that zang has with the area are exactly why I have a soft spot for Yorkville. Like any, yes - swanky - neighbourhood, it has social strivers. But it also has a lot of leftovers from its time as much more downscale neighbourhood: Sushi Inn, Flo's, the Pilot, Hemingway's - sitting side by side with the Four Seasons, Alobar, Louis Vuitton, Hermes. It's a real neighbourhood with all the imperfections of a real neighbourhood.
Is Yorkville at its peak? No - it's not where it was ten, fifteen years ago. But folks, if you want to get run over by three Escalades in a row while scurrying across the road with an overpriced cappuccino and your latest Aesop purchase, Yorkville is the place to do it.
Fair. Another reason for the struggles, though, might be that a lot of old money Torontonians who can afford to shop at the high-end boutiques have their clothes custom made.
Why waste time going from store to store looking for something stylish that fits, when your tailor can just make you clothes that are stylish and fit perfectly in one outing?
Yorkdale probably gets more aspirational shoppers from the suburbs and Americans driving in on vacation who are looking to have fun and splurge.