Richard Silver

Toronto Neighbourhoods: The fabled neighbourhood of Church/Wellesley

Few areas in the world can boast the number of loves begun and lost than the Church/Wellesley ’hood. The long-time centre to Toronto’s LGBT community has changed greatly over the years. Once a questionable place to purchase a home or condo, it’s become very fashionable. Where once the gay community was shunned and hid in dark dank bars, we are now out on the street and have spawned one of the biggest festivals in the city.

With all that comes rising property values and expensive rentals. Restaurants struggle with high rents. Clubs fight to hold onto fickle late-night partiers.

Expect to see more chain restaurants and stores and less “mom and pop” or “pop and pop” retail. Expect to see more condominium high rises due to the great success of Radio City and some of the other buildings on Carlton Street. That means that some of the Victorian stock may dwindle especially as Ryerson University keeps expanding.

THE GOOD NEWS
If you sit at the corner of Church and Wellesley, you will see your life and old friends walk by… just try your hardest to look your best at all times. Everything is available there and I mean everything.

THE BAD NEWS
If you sit at the corner of Church and Wellesley, you will see your life and old friends walk by… but after a certain age, it gets much harder to stop traffic or even a pedestrian… unless you should fall.

BEST OF ALL
Location , location, location. You are within easy access to subways, shopping, eating and partying. Just remember, as you age, what used to be cool music becomes a lot of noise. Nothing you can do about it. It is just generational. It just happens.

Reprinted from INToronto Magazine.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 at 12:52 am and is filed under Around TORONTO, Condominium, Neighborhoods, Selling in Toronto, Toronto. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

1. Jeff Morris (Real Estate Agent) said at July 21st, 2011 at 12:12 pm

   Nice post. liked it!

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