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Entertainment District

Saturday night club crowd on Richmond West - Tanja Tiziana

By the mid-1990s the neighbourhood just west of the financial district was a quiet post-industrial zone of old warehouse buildings that were once home to a number of industries, including fashion. As those jobs left the country nightclubs moved in and were followed by creative industries in the late 1990s after Toronto rezoned the area allowing for live-work spaces and adaptive reuse conversions. Though it still sees tens of thousands of nightclubbers fill it every weekend, the Entertainment District has seen tremendous growth in not just the creative and new economy industries it's home to, but also in residential growth. In the past ten years dozens of new condominium towers have sprouted up, marking what is likely the most intensive development zone in Canada.

Entertainment District Features

Toronto-based company Social Capital Partners is changing Canadian recruitment practices.

Alexandra Shimo Wednesday, September 08, 2010

What would it take to change hiring practices around the world and bring the most disadvantaged, at risk populations back into the workforce? Ten years ago, Bill Young, then a highly successful CEO, started to wonder that question. The result is Social Capital Partners, which in its short life has already greatly changed the world of work.

Q&A with Azmi Haq, the Conversation Starter

Julia Belluz Wednesday, April 28, 2010

When Azmi Haq arrived in Toronto from Pakistan he found people here a little too polite, so to get people chatting about the city and country, frankly and openly, he started Salon Camden in his home. Here, he shares his thoughts on conversation and the immigrant experience in Toronto.

The entrepreneurial architect

Heidi McKenzie Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Heather Dubbeldam left the safety of one of Canada's premier architecture firms to follow her own path and start an independent and expanding green design company.

Q&A with Brian Curtner on Toronto's adaptive reuse scene

Bert Archer Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Brian Curtner, a partner with the architecture firm Quadrangle, is one of the leaders of Toronto's adaptive reuse movement. Here he discusses why we should reuse our old buildings instead of tearing them down, and some of the challenges and rewards of doing so.

Peer to peer lending: taking the bank out of banking

Carla Lucchetta Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Two forward thinking entrepreneurs and their small team at CommunityLend may change the rules of banking with the launch of Canada's first peer-to-peer lending model. Borrowers put their loans up for auction, it's all done online and there is no need to dress up for that formal bank loan interview.

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