Toronto's Disappearing Main Streets: Buildings and Businesses
A full day symposium to explore why Toronto is losing so many Main Streets Buildings and Businesses The symposium will be followed by the Toronto Branch Annual General Meeting
DATE: April 6, 2019
TIME: 9:30 am — 4:30 pm
LOCATION: Toronto Central YMCA, 20 Grosvenor Street Toronto ON, M4Y 2V5
CONTACT INFO: alison@acotoronto.ca
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Description
Join ACO Toronto for our 2019 Heritage Symposium, Toronto’s Disappearing Main Streets: Buildings and Businesses. This one-day symposium will engage and expand on the theme while also developing tangible solutions. Featuring speakers from a range of perspectives including: architects, municipal officials, developers, heritage consultants, landscape architects, urban planners and more, the symposium will also include visual and historical account of this shifting landscape. The topics explored will range from taxation and development; form and transportation; to zoning and changing retail. The symposium will provide an excellent opportunity to discuss the city’s changing landscape from multiple vantage points.
With presentations from:
- Robert Allsopp
- Tamara Anson- Cartwright
- Alex Bozikovic
- John Kiru
- Ellen Kowalchuk
- John Lorinc
- Catherine Nasmith
- Claire Nelischer
- Michelle Senayah
- Derval Slatcher
- Daniel Rotsztain
- Brendan Stewart
- Bay Wayman
- Julian Smith
- Alex Speigel
- Kim Storey
- Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam
- Photos by Vik Pahwa
- Lunch-time Screening: The World in Ten Blocks
Tickets are $15. Includes lunch.
This lecture is eligible for OAA Structured Con.Ed. learning credits.
Thank you to our generous sponsors: ERA Architects, Blackwell Structural Engineers, and Colliers International.
For more information please contact: alison@acotoronto.ca
April 6, 2019
Toronto's Disappearing Main Streets: Buildings and Businesses
