[URBAN NOTE] "Koreatown unsure of what comes next after Mirvish Village"
blogTO's Amy Grief looks at the speculation in Koreatown as to what will happen to this Bloor West neighbourhood after Honest Ed's and Mirvish Village are gone.
Mirvish Village is vacant and Honest Ed's had its big goodbye party this past weekend. The end is nigh for the southwest corner of Bloor and Bathurst as the wrecking ball slowly swoops in.
While the intersection was lively this weekend, it's going to be pretty quiet for the next little while. That's why I spoke to some of those nearby to see what they think about living and working near a ghost town.
“I think it does feel a bit empty in this moment, but I don’t think it’s really hit a lot of us until we start to see the kind of demolition of buildings,” says Adil Dhalla, one of the organizers behind last weekend's festivities. We spoke as he was setting up the space.
Dhalla is also the executive direct of the Centre for Social Innovation, which is headquartered just south of Honest Ed's.
The CSI also has a location in Regent Park, so Dhalla knows it can be complicated to watch as a neighbourhood changes.
Mirvish Village is vacant and Honest Ed's had its big goodbye party this past weekend. The end is nigh for the southwest corner of Bloor and Bathurst as the wrecking ball slowly swoops in.
While the intersection was lively this weekend, it's going to be pretty quiet for the next little while. That's why I spoke to some of those nearby to see what they think about living and working near a ghost town.
“I think it does feel a bit empty in this moment, but I don’t think it’s really hit a lot of us until we start to see the kind of demolition of buildings,” says Adil Dhalla, one of the organizers behind last weekend's festivities. We spoke as he was setting up the space.
Dhalla is also the executive direct of the Centre for Social Innovation, which is headquartered just south of Honest Ed's.
The CSI also has a location in Regent Park, so Dhalla knows it can be complicated to watch as a neighbourhood changes.