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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin
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I didn't know that Colborne street crossed Church and extended east to Market St. Even if all of those buildings would have been lost, it would have been amazing to have another small sidestreet in the St. Lawrence Market area between Front and King.
Losing buildings is bad, but losing the presence of streets entirely is unrecoverable. Toronto lost a lot of little sidestreets to large-scale commercial redevelopment in the 1960s and 70s - especially in the Financial District and in the area that was turned into the Eaton Centre, and is worse for it, even if the modern architecture that replaced it was in many ways superior. Having neighbourhoods with a dense warren of little streets that are rectilinear but not on a grid is what makes a lot of Toronto interesting compared to other North American cities.