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| - This cluster-mess of lights and billboards and tall buildings are reminiscent of a slightly cleaner Time Square. It's smaller and more crowded. Time Square is entire intersection of a few streets; this is just one corner.
It's awfully bright, and you wonder why we had a complete blackout and wasting energy.
Parking in the evening is not especially affordable, unless you spend some money at Pickle Barrel ($10) or Spring Rolls ($20) - 3 hours parking. Or you can go to Ryerson with a $6 flat rate in the evenings. Anything else you may as well take the subway.
Any time there is an event here, it would make sense to block off the streets. It's always full of people,so if you hate crowds, don't come.
The last event I went to here was the lighting of the tree ceremony. There was Samba Squad Performing and a Circus that was flying through the square. Cool for kids (I think), but was a Yawner for us.
However, this public space does give the city opportunity to have events in the so-called city core. Prior to this, they can only do things at City Hall. This is a much more convenient alternative.
In the summertime, there are chairs, public wifi and some funny fountains for the kiddies to run around in.
I do wish that the design was more functional than a giant slab of concrete. Maybe even a coffee stand (dare I say Starbucks or Second Cup), and have patio space for when there is not a special event.
And I wish they would dim those lights on the billboards. I mean, really who's looking that them? You can really only appreciate it from far away. It's distracting for the folks driving.
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