Another business is calling it quits on Main Street. Through The Main Food Company, Fiona Bramzell, who lives on Kingston Road, has been channelling her love of small-batch, locally sourced food. But she’s decided to shutter her shop at 152 Main St. by the end of this month. “This area, no one’s shopping, you know? […]
Since 2002, Alex Winch has operated the Beach Solar Laundromat (2240 Queen St. E.), perhaps the city’s only laundromat that’s also a social venture. The eight solar panels he added above the two-storey building he owns provide power for the water heaters below, and have helped Winch cut his business’ carbon footprint by 30 per […]
Leslieville resident Robin King said she’s excited to be setting up a flower shop just south of Main Street and Gerrard Street East. The 21-year-old, who already has about five years of experience in the floral industry, will be managing In Bloom Flower Shop (155 Main St.), an independent retailer slated to open May 17. […]
SIXTY YEARS ago this March, the Avro CF-105 Arrow, a sophisticated Canadian-built fighter jet from the late-’50s that never made it to full production, took its first flight. Sixty years later, the iconic supersonic jet lives on at the Danforth—albeit at a fraction of its original size. In the front window at Wheels & Wings […]
Seven years ago when Alex Wilson and Alan Johnston founded their building company Anex, it was a more utilitarian venture than it is today. “Our main focus was furniture at first,” said Wilson. “And then that switched to custom everything.” That everything has come to include 12-foot-tall hands, the reconstruction of a full-grown tree […]
After five years near Main and Gerrard in the Upper Beach neighbourhood, Main Fitness has settled into its new digs at 1745 Queen St. E. on the ground floor of a condo building. In its new setting, the fitness centre, which Charlene Sullivan founded nearly 20 years ago and Gudrun Hardes has been a co-owner […]
If you’re pumping iron at Link Integrated Health, Brad Cote’s new gym that late last year took over the spot previously occupied by Main Street Fitness at 138 Main St., you might come across pro athletes. Current NFL free agent Jared Odrick, most recently of the near-Super Bowl bound Jacksonville Jaguars, was one of the […]
At the crack of dawn on a recent Friday morning, rock music blares inside a 7,000-square-foot warehouse unit in Scarborough, overpowering grunts and the clang of equipment as it hits the padded ground. Several participants push themselves through grueling athletic routines. They switch from Olympic-style weightlifting to rowing machines to something called an assault cycle, […]
It can take more than half a day to get Texas-style smoked meat just right over a low flame, says Terrance Hill, who has flown in from Dallas to help his cousin Darien List launch the Beach Hill Smokehouse at Main and Gerrard. It has taken a lot longer to get the soon-to-be-in-business restaurant together. […]
When educator Donna Watson opened Healthy Earth Bilingual Nursery School 25 years ago, her focus on environmental stewardship, old fashioned learning techniques and play-based critical thinking was ahead of her time. “I really felt that kids were capable of learning so much more at a very early age,” said Watson. “I wanted to really get […]
