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Today, the South Street-Head House District represents more than three hundred cafes, restaurants, entertainment venues, and shops, [19] and Queen Village is home to roughly 7000 families whose median income and home values are among the highest in the city.
Alexandra Park consists of private and public housing, with at grade retail along Queen Street West and Spadina Avenue, some institutional, and several commercial buildings scattered through the neighborhood. The neighborhood takes its name from Alexandra Park, a municipal park at the south-east corner of Dundas Street West and Bathurst Street.
In an academic study of Liberty Village prepared by Thorben Wieditz in 2007, he wrote: The area's makeover is supported by newspaper articles that promote the area as an "artsy loft district," a "bohemian enclave," and a "neighbourhood to live, work and play" for people who want to be close to the entertainment district and to the gentrifying Queen Street West area.
Once past there, Queen Street West makes its way through Parkdale. Parkdale is one of Toronto's oldest neighbourhoods, and a former independent village, and Queen Street is its main commercial strip, with two and three-storey mixed use buildings, retail on the ground-floor and residences above.
Roncesvalles (/ ˈ r ɒ n s ə s v eɪ l z / ⓘ RON-sə-svaylz), also known as or Roncesvalles Village or Roncy Village, is a neighbourhood in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, centred on Roncesvalles Avenue, a north–south street leading from the intersection of King and Queen Streets to the south, north to Dundas Street West, a distance of roughly 1.7 kilometres.
Gladstone House (formerly the Gladstone Hotel) [2] is a boutique hotel at 1214 Queen Street West in the Parkdale area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Since renovations in the early 2000s, the hotel has become an arts hub in the West Queen West neighbourhood of Toronto.
The Village of Parkdale was founded in 1879, but settlement of the area predated its foundation. In 1812, the 240 acres (97 ha) of land bounded from Lot Street (today's Queen Street) on the north, and Jameson on the west and Dufferin Avenue was granted to James Brock, the cousin of Sir Isaac Brock, in lieu of salary.
Value Village Stores, Inc. was a Midwestern U.S.A. chain of retail stores aimed at the discount department-store market. Henry Horney, formerly of F.W. Woolworth Company founded a small, regional chain of discount stores located in the two states of Wisconsin and Illinois that opened in 1961 and operated into 1989. [ 1 ]