{"id":891,"date":"2006-06-19T09:27:46","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T13:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=891"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:44:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:44:55","slug":"distillery-is-anti-franchise-the-airport-link-and-small-town-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/06\/19\/distillery-is-anti-franchise-the-airport-link-and-small-town-efficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Distillery is anti-franchise, the airport LINK, and small town efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.discountretailersdirectory.com\/toronto_distillery_district_photo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All articles are from today&#8217;s Toronto Star.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distillery avoids sameness<\/strong>: <em>from Chistopher Hume today<\/em>&#8230;. For most visitors, the Distillery District is a pleasant way to spend a few hours, maybe go for a meal, wander through an art gallery or watch a play at the Young Centre. It&#8217;s all those things, for sure, but there&#8217;s something else going on down here that in its own quiet way is different, even revolutionary. Though it takes a few minutes to sink in, it&#8217;s hard to miss: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&#038;c=Article&#038;cid=1150672506451&#038;call_pageid=968350130169&#038;col=969483202845\">There are no franchises here<\/a>, no chains, no brands as they&#8217;re now called. That means no Starbucks, no McDonalds, no Chapters, no Tim Hortons; well, you get the idea. This is no accident. For the owners of the Distillery, Cityscape and Dundee Realty Corp., it&#8217;s part of a carefully considered strategy aimed at resisting the tide of homogenization that is turning cities around the world into clones of one another. They won&#8217;t stop globalization, but they can keep one little pocket of one little city safe from the forces of sameness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aiport LINK<\/strong>: The Greater Toronto Airports Authority yesterday staged a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&#038;c=Article&#038;cid=1150672506522&#038;call_pageid=968350130169&#038;col=969483202845\">trial run of its three-station automated people mover<\/a> &#8212; nicknamed Link. About 250 volunteers rode the 1.5-kilometre elevated-train system, offering their thoughts on what kinks need to be worked out before the $150 million system opens July 6. The bumpy ride dominated the post-trial run conversation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Small town, big thinking:<\/strong> Earlier this year, when East Gwillimbury Mayor James Young was chair of the planning and economic development committee for York Region, he attended a symposium on sustainable communities that sparked some bold thinking. He knew his municipality &#8212; a town of 22,000 about 30 minutes north of Toronto &#8212; was about to enter a period of significant growth, and he was hearing about how individual buildings or specific subdivisions were being built to high-efficiency Energy Star standards. &#8220;We thought, why not investigate this to see if it could be a town-wide standard?&#8221; he recalls. Quickly, Young and his senior staff organized a forum so they could start a dialogue with the major homebuilders in the community. &#8220;We brought them in right at the beginning, said this is what the municipality was willing to do and that we needed their buy-in.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&#038;c=Article&#038;cid=1150672506200&#038;call_pageid=968350072197&#038;col=969048863851\">Surprisingly, they got it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All articles are from today&#8217;s Toronto Star. Distillery avoids sameness: from Chistopher Hume today&#8230;. For most visitors, the Distillery District is a pleasant way to spend a few hours, maybe go for a meal, wander through an art gallery or watch a play at the Young Centre. 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