A new district – the Canary District has sprung up beside Toronto’s trendy and central distillery district in preparation to house athletes and officials for the Pan Am Games. The city is already on the lookout for businesses to set up shop there once the games are done and gone. So far they have a number of takers. They’ll be looking for as many as 18 tenants to occupy the 46,000 square feet of ground floor retail space designated for permanent use serving the condos, rental housing units and student residences that will move into the area after the games.
Developers decides to takes advantage of the bike paths and sporty legacy of the area to create a sort of health and wellness theme into the urban development plan for the neighbourhood. The first heat of confirmed tenants include
A health food store/café combo called Fuel Plus, OpusGlow Concept Spa, Dark Horse Espresso Bar, Think Fitness Studio , middle-eastern restaurant Tabule, Neopolitan-style Pizza e Pazzi and The Running Room footwear retailer.
