[LINK] "Toronto Life Square Is Broke and Life-less"

[rfmcdonald]

Torontoist's David Topping is scathing about the public space of Yonge-Dundas Square, just to the north of Toronto Eaton Centre shopping mall. More specifically, he's quite critical of Toronto Life Square, a building that was under construction for at least four years--more precisely, was a mass of scaffolding for four years--before its completion last year, and somewhat happy and/or unsurprised that its finances are quite bad. Quite.

Toronto Life Square—the massively unattractive ogre on the north-east corner of Yonge and Dundas, which houses not only a Future Shop, Google's local offices, and an AMC that uncomfortably doubles as Ryerson classrooms, but also a vast and ever-growing pool of all of our tears—is "broke," according to the Globe and Mail. What's more: Toronto Life, who scooped up the naming rights in 2007, "has been locked in a months-long legal dispute to remove its name from the project." (Perhaps the magazine finally realized the irony of suggesting that the building that loomed over Dundas Square added anything to Toronto life.)