Tag: BathurstSt

Stackt Market

March 24, 2024 / Marvin Job / 1 Comment

Stackt Market is a truly unique concept. Located at 28 Bathurst Street at Front Street West, Stackt Market has been awarded “Public Space of the Year” by Designlines Magazine, and is also the winner of “Retail Innovation for Fast Company’s Innovation by Design”.

Opened in the summer of 2019, Stackt Market is built entirely from 120 reclaimed shipping containers which create 100,000 square feet of art, retail, events and public space. The containers are – wait for it – stacked, with those on the bottom retrofitted and occupied by pop-ups, creative incubators, 30+ retailers and food/beverage vendors. The shipping containers up top act as large canvasses for local and international artists, drawing attention to the site from the many surrounding condo developments and office towers. Stackt Market is also home to 300+ annual events and 7 annual festivals which put community at the forefront.

Designed by LGA Architectural Partners’ Janna Levitt and Danny Bartman with Stackt Market founder Matt Rubinoff, Stackt Market inhabits the site of a former smelting plant. The 2.4-acre-lot is roughly the size of two city blocks.

Onsite Art Gallery

Stackt Market is strong on community and art. According to their website:

STACKT is on a mission to innovate a new experience where customers, businesses, art and hospitality thrive as one. STACKT is built on the idea that commerce is culture, and culture is community made. The community is made up of innovators, creators, collaborators, and consumers alike.

Come check it out!

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Honest Eds

July 17, 2023 / Marvin Job / 0 Comments

This will bring back memories for a lot of people. These shots are from February 2017, so they’re too new to fall into my From the Vaults category, but too old to be considered new cityscapes (if that makes any sense).

Ah yes, Honest Ed Mirvish’s little empire of kitsch at 581 Bloor Street West. This photoset was taken on the last weekend that Honest Eds was open to the public. The store had been emptied and closed prior to this date, but reopened on this particular weekend only for a couple of farewell parties and a massive art installation which took up the entire store. After that weekend the store closed permanently and the demolition began. A new condo building now sits on that famous corner of Bloor and Bathurst, and yet another piece of Toronto history has sadly died.

Bloor & Bathurst Murals

October 23, 2022 / Marvin Job / 1 Comment

These mural shots are from a wall behind the buildings on Bloor Street West at Bathurst Street. When you exit the Bathurst subway station you will see these murals on your left, at least you could when I took these images a while ago. There’s a chance these murals may have since changed on this wall, so it’s soon time for a revisit to investigate.

I couldn’t find anything on the web regarding the history or backstories of these murals, but I think they’re fairly impressive.

Time For Tims: Mural behind the CIBC at 532 Bloor St. W. (Bloor & Bathurst)

St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church

August 27, 2022 / Marvin Job / 0 Comments

St. Mary’s is located in Portugal Square at the corner of Adelaide Street West and Bathurst Street. The parish was established by Irish immigrants in 1852. The Gothic Revival-style church was designed by Joseph Connolly and completed in 1889, with the tower finished in 1905.