The Sunnybrook Plaza has all spaces leased for the first time it seems in a long time. It is a credit to the little strip mall at Eglinton Ave. E. and Bayview Ave in what are clearly difficult retail times The recent arrival of York Taps and a Thai eating establishment took two spaces. York took the long-vacant cast-off half of Rogers space, a casualty of the passing movie rental business. (Remember Blockbuster?) And you can argue that there’s a little more public money being paid to the landlord than usual — the Metrolinx information office and the John Carmichael constituency spot next to Subway bring that new note. But the entire plaza is living on borrowed time as the owners, Rio.Can, show plans for a condominium and commercial structure of two towers on the site. There is an evening meeting about that at the William Lea Room on Tuesday, April 28, 2015.
