That does suck, thats a great area of the city. Hopefully itll get rebuilt as it was instead of fully commercial and corparate, we lost a good section of the area I grew up hanging out in that way.
The Area is protected by the heritage conservation act, so they won't be able to put up condos or anything. I'm pretty sure that all of those buildings are kept at 3 stories or less...so thats good at the very least
I got caught in that this morning on my way to work (I work at Spadina and Front).
Tons of smoke and insanity!
I feel so bad for all the people down there. So incredibly sad. Seriously!
There are speculations that a drug lab in one of the apartment building could have started the fire.
I've been watching this on the news since first thing this morning... it's devastating and heartbreaking. .. that area was like a second home to me when I was growing up.
apparently the man who owns Dukes bikes inherited it from his Grandfather who started it in 1914.
A friend of mine lives right on queen at bathurst, so luckily she was on the other side of the street. But it's fuckin scary.
i was on the plane back home when that happened... i remember the day before i was walking around on QueenWest with some friends who are living there.
it's so sad.