It's rare, but it does happen -- there was a multi-storey building on the south side of Bloor in the Annex area that was empty and boarded up for years in the ’90s, perhaps even later. And while it was never truly "derelict", a large restaurant building sat empty on Danforth near Logan for perhaps a decade until its recent redevelopment.You never see multi-storey commercial buildings on major streets in Toronto derelict and boarded up.
It's rare, but it does happen -- there was a multi-storey building on the south side of Bloor in the Annex area that was empty and boarded up for years in the ’90s, perhaps even later. And while it was never truly "derelict", a large restaurant building sat empty on Danforth near Logan for perhaps a decade until its recent redevelopment.
That was the result of a fire that took out a big chunk of those buildings. There's been for sale signs posted for a while but I guess there hasn't been significant interest. I do remember reading an application for a new 3-storey building though not sure when work will start.