Furthermore, any approval will negatively impact redevelopment opportunities for the intensification of 48 Yonge. To proceed with this single application represents a lost opportunity to plan and intensify this important block on a comprehensive basis. It's very unique and being able to reveal this little gem in Parkdale has been a really great experience for me.Our client has substantial concerns regarding the proposed Commerce Court redevelopment. "I'm still working on it, but I hope it becomes one of the premier event spaces in Toronto. The whole project has been a somewhat serendipitous journey, especially seeing as Chan first caught that glimpse of the ceiling back in April, almost 100 years to the day of the theatre's opening. Wishing Alex, Eric, Melissa & crew running The Parkdale Hall all the best. Thanks to the work of the Chans, we now have one more piece of Toronto’s hidden history revealed for all to see, and one more of my little heritage daydreams is now brought to reality. And we were like, 'oh, there's the basement,'" he says, adding that the below-ground floor will take some time to eventually render usable, if at all. "And historical blogs had mentioned a basement, so we were scratching our heads like, 'where is this basement?' Then when I was doing some repairs to the loading dock, in one hit, a whole part of the floor caved in. "We were trying to learn more about the space and trying to figure out which side the screen was on, which way the seats sloped up," he said of how they discovered the filled-in pit near the west wall. Most of the young people I've talked to in Parkdale are really surprised and never knew this was here," he says.īut Chan has been able to uncover a number of little heritage tidbits through his work, such as the orchestra pit where musicians would perform accompaniments to silent films, and a long-lost basement. The 1500-seat venue was shuttered in 1970 as television grew in popularity and accessibility, and has since been used for a variety of retail purposes, its original history somewhat forgotten by younger generations and covered in haphazard renos over the years. #workinprogress #comingsoon #eventvenue #theparkdalehall #parkdale #queenwest #torontoĪ post shared by The Parkdale Hall on at 1:55pm PDT
Sneak peek! Here’s another shot of our grand century-old ceiling. Someone should reveal it, and why shouldn't that person be me?" "I learned how amazing this building was and decided it was a tragedy that this ceiling was hidden. had actually been an old theatre build in 1920, and the ornate hidden ceiling he had happened upon was of the original design from its glory days, later covered by drywall drop ceilings. So I started wondering 'why is this ceiling here and how far does it go?'" Chan says.Īfter doing a bit of research, he found out that 1605 Queen St. "As I was looking at the space in one unit, I went into a closet and looked up, and the closet revealed a bit of this amazing old ceiling.
While examining a storefront in a divvied-up building near Queen and Roncesvalles, Chan, who has a background in real estate, noticed something out of the ordinary that immediately caught his eye.
Alex Chan did not exactly intend to stumble upon a 1oo-year-old piece of Toronto history when he was sussing out real estate options for a new cannabis store earlier this year, but in accidentally doing so, he's completely changed the course of his plans for the foreseeable future - and those of a lot of other residents, too.
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