{"id":1509,"date":"2007-04-12T21:00:40","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T01:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2007-04-12T21:44:54","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T01:44:54","slug":"the-star-that-obscured-hugh-garner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/04\/12\/the-star-that-obscured-hugh-garner\/","title":{"rendered":"The star that obscured Hugh Garner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/images\/star1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update (this originally posted back in early Feb): As one reader commented, this crane crashed last night &#8212; which explains why I saw a Wellesley bus on Carlton. Check comments for a link to a picture. <em>The Curse of the Star of Downtown!<\/em> Sounds Agatha Cristie-esque.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hugh_Garner\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/7\/75\/WDIV.JPG\/120px-WDIV.JPG\" \/><\/a> Today Wellesley was closed between Sherbourne and Parliament because a big crane-truck from Massachusetts was erecting the construction crane for the Star of Downtown condo. The crane, in half-built form, looked like the 1980s Detroit NBC affiliate logo, with its angular and pointy 4. Channel 4 would run commercials that said &#8220;Go 4 it,&#8221; sung by a watered down blue-eyed-soul version of a Motown chorus. Detroit needed <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=cCmgjAvE1CM\">catchy TV station songs<\/a> back then, as they do now. If you go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestarofdowntown.com\/starofdowntown_newstyle_artistrendition.htm\">Star of Downtown&#8217;s website<\/a> and check the artist&#8217;s rendering, set &#8220;in the heart of Cabbagetown,&#8221; the building isn&#8217;t so much of a star as perhaps the &#8220;Meh of Downtown&#8221; &#8212; boring and maybe generating a bit of regret for those who hoped for something better here. Those renderings are also fairly car heavy too, and make it look like the place is being built in the middle of a parking lot, which is not the case. The upside is this vacant lot, that has been surrounded by steadily deteriorating hoarding over the past few years, will finally be filled in, and hopefully liven up this bit of Wellesley once opened. Go by soon though, as the neat view of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hugh_Garner\">Hugh Garner co-op<\/a>, straight out of somebody&#8217;s red-orange-blue-and-concrete 1982 Swedish fantasy (or at least my fantasy), will be blocked forever (views from the east, on Prospect Street, will be just fine though).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/images\/star2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update (this originally posted back in early Feb): As one reader commented, this crane crashed last night &#8212; which explains why I saw a Wellesley bus on Carlton. Check comments for a link to a picture. The Curse of the Star of Downtown! Sounds Agatha Cristie-esque. Today Wellesley was closed between Sherbourne and Parliament because<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/04\/12\/the-star-that-obscured-hugh-garner\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;The star that obscured Hugh Garner&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,33,20],"tags":[315,149,4512,854,1164,405],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-housing","category-urban-design","tag-artist","tag-cabbagetown","tag-car-heavy","tag-detroit","tag-massachusetts","tag-the-star"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The star that obscured Hugh Garner - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/04\/12\/the-star-that-obscured-hugh-garner\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The star that obscured Hugh Garner - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Update (this originally posted back in early Feb): As one reader commented, this crane crashed last night &#8212; which explains why I saw a Wellesley bus on Carlton. 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