13 h. ago
Toronto may finally do something about all of its vacant storefronts
A number of Toronto thoroughfares once known as lively, walkable streets lined with shops and restaurants have been rendered almost unrecognizable in recent years, largely because of what feels like a never-ending wave of business closures.The stark contrast between arteries like Queen Street in 2019 and 2025 is jarring, to say the least, with the folding of countless small businesses and even large corporate chains begging the question of who can afford to operate in the city anymore.Spreading much like the respiratory disease that ended up spelling the end for so many establishments in the city following months of mandatory forced closures, vacant storefronts have dominated chunks of Queen West, the Beaches, Yonge Street and others, sometimes for years.Compounding the lockdown era that many businesses never recovered from, there was the swift and drastic shift to online shopping during the same period,...
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