Fans of the old Fish Market bar on Market Street, just south of Front, and of the
Summerhill LCBO will be pleased to hear that the people behind the latter are getting behind the former.
Woodcliffe Corporation is expanding the small Front Street LCBO into a 13,000 square foot space worthy of the growing St Lawrence Market neighbourhood.
Paul Oberman, Woodcliffe's president and CEO, says he'll be announcing it officially soon, but gave Yonge Street the heads up.
"The existing LCBO will be extended on the second floor level, and we're putting restaurants in on the ground floor, so the existing buildings will be renovated, the fish market will be restored, and the garage on the corner of The Esplanade will be demolished, and we're constructing a two-storey building there."
Woodcliffe will start work in April and complete the project in 2011.
"It'll be largely a restored space, with big, tall ceilings, lots of glazing, and we're fully enclosing all the shipping and receiving, the messy backroom stuff, shielding the street from it. It's going to be way cool, if I do say so myself," Oberman says.
Woodcliffe has also applied to the City to make Market Street a pedestrian-only zone, with a flower market on the east side of the street under the St. Lawrence Market overhang. The city's decision is pending.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Paul Oberman
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