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March 23, 2021
Beach Village BIA’s Luminosity lights up Queen Street East
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The Beach Village BIA’s Luminosity art display is now taking place along Queen Street East between Coxwell Avenue and Neville Park Boulevard. A total of eight art installations have been placed at outdoor locations along the street to “act as a light at the end of the tunnel following a difficult winter with COVID-19,” said the Beach Village BIA in a release. Luminosity opened on the weekend of March 13 and will continue until April 11. Photo above left, Beacon Silo. Photo at left, Headlights. Photo above centre, 88 Keys of Light. Photo above right, Share the Love. For more on Luminosity, please see our story on Page 5. WELCOME SPRING!
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THE CITY of Toronto is hosting an Indigenous Community Sharing Meeting on its new development at Queen Street East between Coxwell Avenue and Kishigo Lane. The mixed-use development at 1631 Queen St. E. will replace the current Beaches Employment and Social Services and Coxwell Early Childhood Centre. The childhood centre is set for expansion, while the employment office will be relocated as part of the city’s Housing Now initiative - repurposing city-owned land to create more affordable housing. The development has raised concerns among
some residents over its proposal for a 17-storey building facing Eastern Avenue on the south end of the site which is located southeast of Coxwell Avenue between Queen Street East and Eastern Avenue. The lane, at the eastern boundary of the site, was given the name Kishigo in 2018 to honour an Anishinaabe family that lived there in the late 18th century. Back then, local resident Joanne Doucette and former Beaches-East York Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon prompted the name change. Concordantly, the new Housing Now development includes Indigenous Placekeeping after current Beaches-East York Councillor Brad
Bradford requested the project team incorporate it into the design “given how important this history is for the area,” he said. According to Housing Now, the city is aiming to “convert the lane in its current form into a publicly-accessible open space that celebrates Indigenous families and history in the area.” To do that, the city is hosting an Indigenous Community Sharing Meeting on the evening of March 24. “We’ve listened. We heard that public green spaces need to infuse the elements, including the water, the earth, and the sky,” Housing Now said in a statement. “You shared with us that Continued on Page 5