Starting in August, you’ll be able to drink in the middle of Yonge Street. For a month, at least.
As part of the
Yonge Street Planning Framework, a city blueprint on how to make the downtown stretch of Yonge Street a little more vibrant urban strip, Celebrate Yonge has gotten city approval to reduce the car lanes from four to two, and bars on the strip between Queen and Gerrard, will be licensed to serve alcohol on the temporary patio seating on the street.
"That's the first time in Toronto we'll be seeing that done," says councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam, in whose ward the month-long festival will be held.
The strip will have 235 planters, donated by the
Carpenters Union and designed by Ken Greenberg and Maryanne McKenna of
KPMB Architects.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Kristyn Wong-Tam
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