Thirty years later, it’s goodbye to the McDonald’s building that was part of the burger firm’s historic expansion of the 1980s. A giant backhoe is ripping up the parking lot Tuesday and will soon take down the former restaurant, second home to casual eaters and Leaside High kids. The site will become the “Leaside” LRT station at Bayview Ave. and quite possibly a good deal more. Metrolinx has consulted with developers about a large, maybe quite high building on this site and has purchased two of the four-plexes to the south on Bayview to make a sizeable footprint for this new building.
Nicole DiCarlo is sunshine and light as she reports from the wild and crazy corner of Bayview and Eglinton about the demolition of the McDonald's. Nicole is the Crosstown Team Lead for Community Relations at the Metrolinx office in the remnants of Sunnybrook Plaza while demolition work is taking place to…
A new veterinary is moving into the TD Canada Trust building at Laird Dr. and Vanderhoof Ave. Leaside-Eglinton Pet Hospital indicates by a sign that it will open soon. There may be others, but the two other vets who comes to mind are both on South Bayview, although there are…
Reader Gary Slippoy has recorded the last phase of the McDonald's demolition. Depictions of the new "Leaside" (not Bayview) LRT station are few and it is known that Metrolinx wants to go up, up, up at this corner. We shall see.
