[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Little Jamaica, The Coffee Lab, Tour Tram, Massey Hall, design

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• blogTO takes a look at Little Jamaica along Eglinton Avenue West, a neighbourhood that persists despite gentrification and Eglinton Crosstown construction.


• Christopher Hume takes a look at The Coffee Lab, a tiny coffee shop on Spadina south of Richmond, and what this suggests about Toronto's urban future, over at the Toronto Star.


• Steve Munro takes a look at the 1973 introduction of Toronto's Tour Tram.


• As Massey Hall is set for a years-long shutdown for renovations, NOW Toronto's Richard Trapunski shares musicians' memory of this venue.


• blogTO takes a look at Claude Cormier + Associés, the Montréal-based architecture firm that has introduced quirky highlights to Toronto like the redesigned Berczy Park.