Failed upstairs-downstairs shops to be razed on Yonge

Worthwhile little story about the junky little upstairs-downstairs strip on Yonge St at Helendale Ave just south of Postal Station K, now under redevelopment. The plaza will be demolished and learned voices are quoted saying the architectural trick of pretending that the basement was the first floor (see Yorkville) is a failed concept. Correct again professor and there’s one on South Bayview as well at the corner of Belsize.  What a blessing to see that perpetually vacant lower level disappear.  By the way, CBC calls Station K by the wrong name. It’s K.  CBC

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