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Originally Posted by ssiguy
R-L has always struck me as a really crappy attempt to become Toronto's University Avenue. It's the classic 3 trying to dress up as a 9 but looking like a 2.
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The thing with R-L is that it was the first attempt to try to replicate a Manhattan Canyon. But they (the powers that be), just never really committed to it fully.
To this day, the most prestigious business-centric street is McGill College. But it's 4 blocks long and is hardly a street. And soon enough it'll be pedestrianized and will be literally no longer a street.
R-L is early-modern Canada's first attempt at a modern NYC style business district canyon.
R-L was also the battleground for Canada's two business solitudes: the western half represented Canada's Anglo elite (Sun Life, RBC, CIBC, BMO (via their unofficial HQ in the CIL building, The Queen Elizabeth Hotel, The Windsor, etc) and the upstart franco elite (Desjardins and public institutions).