Nostalgia about neighbourhood retail is not a strategy
The City's heavily compromised decision on neighbourhood retail may result in no new neighbourhood retail
By John LorincI have lived for many years less than 30 metres from what was once one of Toronto’s storied corner stores — a green grocer known locally as “Dom’s” — for the owner, Domenico Cozzi. He and his wife Rosa acquired the business, which is nestled in the middle of a (formerly working class) St. Clair West neighbourhood, from a Ukrainian war veteran in the 1960s. They were young immigrants from Italy, with three small children and family to support. Dom told me once he... Read more
