Hanging out in Toronto's Queen West Area

Queen Street was the baseline for the original east-west avenues of Toronto's grid outline of major streets. The west end of Queen (referred to as "Queen West") is known as a centre for Canadian broadcasting, music, performance, fashion, and the visual arts.

Over the past 25 years, Queen West has become an international arts centre, and a major tourist attraction in Toronto. Queen Street West at Yonge Street has been one of Toronto's primary shopping destinations. At first, the Eaton's and Simpson's department stores faced each other across Queen Street. The pedestrian crosswalk on Queen Street, just to the west of the intersection of Yonge Street, was one of the busiest in Canada, as thousands of shoppers a day shopped between Eaton's and Simpson's.

Today, Eaton's is gone by the wayside, but the Toronto Eaton Centre still stands at the same location, one of Canada's largest office and shopping complexes to this day. Also, Simpson's is gone, but the historic department store building remains on the south side of Queen Street, vacant by The Bay department store. The area offers an exciting mix of contemporary fashion and design stores along with restaurants, bars and coffee shops.

Queen West is one of the city’s most eclectic areas. If you are looking for tatooed and/or body pierced crowd (for example) you’ll want to check out this area. Ideal for the yonge and hip generation the area does offer some unique and trendy residential alternatives.

The Quest by Tridel for example is still an excellent buy and some new “harder” lofts on John have proven a big demand item in the area. District Lofts, and Phoebe On Queen are a couple of local condos that one would want to know of.

Underground:
Downtown Walkway "Path"

Neighbourhoods:
Annex, Avondale, Bay Corridor, Bloor East,
Casa Loma, Chinatown, Downtown East, Entertainment District, Fashion District,
Financial District, Harbourfront, King West Village, Merton, North York, Queen West, Rosedale, St.Lawrence, Summerhill, Yonge & Eglinton,
Yonge & St. Clair, York Mills, Yorkville

Charles "Laurie" Hanes 1-877-285-0343
Sutton Group Tower Realty Inc., Broker

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