{"id":2586,"date":"2007-12-18T13:58:52","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T17:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2007-12-18T14:06:29","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T18:06:29","slug":"summerhill-holiday-lights-and-the-development-iceberg-theyre-attached-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/12\/18\/summerhill-holiday-lights-and-the-development-iceberg-theyre-attached-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Summerhill holiday lights and the development iceberg they&#8217;re attached to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2101\/2120100943_cf26824112.jpg?v=0\" height=\"376\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last year <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=1404https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=1404\">I wrote about the unique LED holiday lights<\/a> that run along Yonge Street from Dundas Square up to Alexander Street. They&#8217;re back this year and I still like them &#8212; they give the street a cozy feeling, almost like it has a ceiling &#8212; but opinions varied. Uptown, the rather beautiful and dramatic blue tree that towers over Yonge Street on the Summerhill Railway bridge has also returned. Walking north on Yonge it has quite a presence in the middle of the street. During the early hours of the blizzard on Saturday night I noticed the display includes lighting details that highlight the structural bits of the old railway bridge along the windows of the world&#8217;s grandest liquor shop. Altogether, it&#8217;s one of the most elegant big lighting schemes I&#8217;ve seen in Toronto this year.<\/p>\n<p>There is an interesting story behind the tree though. It is seen by some as a &#8220;goodwill gesture&#8221; by developer Paul Oberman whose Woodcliffe Development Corporation owns both the old North Toronto railway station that houses the LCBO, and the Five Thieves (the famously high-end food shops that are  currently being refurbished) just to the south. Oberman wants to build a linear, glassed-in restaurant over Yonge where the tree is along an unused stretch of tracks (see a rendering of it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/toronto\/story\/2007\/09\/25\/summerhill-restaurant.html\">in this CBC Story<\/a>). Woodcliffe also has a contentious plan to build a 38-storey condo tower approximately where the The Beer Store is now (behind the Five Thieves). The tower has run into expected resistance for being somewhat taller than what is ideal for that neighbourhood, but the CBC article above reports a representative of the local resident&#8217;s association is also &#8220;skeptical&#8221; about the restaurant that, on the face of it, seems like an interesting adaptive reuse of old, unused infrastructure (though trains still rumble along some of the tracks &#8212; the same tracks that run just north of Dupont out to The Junction).<\/p>\n<p>Throw in a <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/np\/blogs\/toronto\/archive\/2007\/08\/31\/a-second-union-station-for-rosedale.aspx\">Go Transit proposal<\/a> to establish a commuter hub here (a seemingly logical choice as this was an important hub in Toronto for many years) and these holiday decorations do more than just celebrate the season, they are the festive peak of the debate about this neighbourhood in transition.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2265\/2120100533_0b2ae4b9da.jpg?v=0\" height=\"376\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I wrote about the unique LED holiday lights that run along Yonge Street from Dundas Square up to Alexander Street. They&#8217;re back this year and I still like them &#8212; they give the street a cozy feeling, almost like it has a ceiling &#8212; but opinions varied. Uptown, the rather beautiful and dramatic<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/12\/18\/summerhill-holiday-lights-and-the-development-iceberg-theyre-attached-to\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Summerhill holiday lights and the development iceberg they&#8217;re attached to&#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":[3,24,50,20],"tags":[307,154,244,7663,3977,7662,1287,7660,7661,19,7659],"class_list":["post-2586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-history","category-infrastructure","category-urban-design","tag-cbc","tag-dundas-square","tag-dupont","tag-food-shops","tag-go-transit","tag-paul-oberman","tag-representative","tag-summerhill-railway-bridge","tag-the-beer-store","tag-toronto","tag-woodcliffe-development-corporation"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Summerhill holiday lights and the development iceberg they&#039;re attached to - 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\/12\/18\/summerhill-holiday-lights-and-the-development-iceberg-theyre-attached-to\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Summerhill holiday lights and the development iceberg they&#039;re attached to - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last year I wrote about the unique LED holiday lights that run along Yonge Street from Dundas Square up to Alexander Street. 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