Also this one should be fun to watch. I'll try to track it's progress as it's in my neighborhood of Riverside.
This as most Torontonian's know was the home to Jilly's for the last several decades and ran as a rooming house on it's upper floors. It's about to undergo a massive restoration with an addition of one extra floor on it's rear. The developer (Streetcar) will be maintaining the first two floors for retail and restaurant space with possible plans for putting in a boutique Hotel and artist loft space on the top floors much like the Gladstone did in Queen West West. Streetcar Developments have said they have no intention of turning the 120-year-old building into a condo development.
Back in the summer Streetcar had two staff members work with the city and the 13 residents still living in the building find new living accommodations. Most could not afford to move because they were unable to come up with a first and last month payment, the developer gave them that money to relieve some of the burden.
You can read more here:
http://torontoist.com/2014/07/findin...-above-jillys/
Jilly’s strip club, with the New Broadview Hotel above. Photo by scarboroughcruiser from the Torontoist Flickr pool.