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The NOW Magazine Reader’s Choice 2016 results are in! Local Riverside businesses made their mark on Now Magazine’s Best of Toronto 2016 list! The businesses featured are:

• Lone & Co.: Best Hair Salon

A collective of independent creators. Select from a group of carefully curated and extremely talented stylists, or go in for a free consultation!

• Common Sort: Best Consignment and Accessory Store (Runners up)

Bring in your clean, fashionable items in excellent condition in store and a buyer will select pieces and price them for the store. You will receive half that price in store credit that is good for ONE YEAR at any location. Or you can take 25% in cash, on the spot.

• Pulp Kitchen: Best Juice Bar (Runners up)

Pulp Kitchen specializes in fresh juice elixirs and smoothies, and a selection of nourishing food items such as soup, sandwiches, and salads. Their mission is to make healthy food more available to everyone, and to help educate on the benefits of healthy eating.

• Tabule: Best Falafel

Tabülè on Queen East offers a richly textured interior and a well-loved menu. Husband and wife team, Chef Rony Goraichy and Diana Sideris, are the heart of Tabülè. Using the freshest quality ingredients, Goraichy’s special cultural expertise and interpretation of traditional dishes has created a broad menu with robust flavour that is sure to delight the senses.

Thank you for supporting our local businesses!

Toronto Mayor John Tory announced private funding of The Don River Valley Park – which will be the centrepiece of Toronto’s downtown: a 200-hectare ravine Superpark spanning “south of Gerrard Street to Corktown Common… reaching west toward the revitalized Regent Park and east towards Riverside”. Riverside BIA was on location to watch the Mayor’s announcement and meet the funders.

Here is an excerpt from the media release about the announcement:

TORONTO, ONTARIO (October 18, 2016) – Today at a news conference at Evergreen Brick Works, Toronto Mayor John Tory, joined by Evergreen CEO Geoff Cape, and the Don River Valley Park Campaign Chair Andy Chisholm, patrons and supporters, marked the ‘First Mile’ of the city-wide ravine strategy.

The Don River Valley Park project, which started as a multi-year public and private fundraising campaign launched last year by Evergreen in partnership with the City of Toronto and the Toronto Regional Conservation Authority, aims to create a ‘super park’, a massive 480-acre green space spanning from Evergreen Brick Works south to the mouth of Lake Ontario.

With this announcement, Mayor Tory and Ms. Romoff request that the Parks and Environment Committee study the feasibility of designating this area a City of Toronto Park and identifying next steps in the Lower Don Trail Master Plan.

“Toronto was built around its ravines. They give the city a unique identity that has defined how our city has grown. This project allows us to celebrate our ravines, talk about the important role they play for our residents, our resilience and our quality of life,” said Mayor Tory. “With the help of private donors, we will continue to make improvements to the Lower Don Valley like new way-finding signage and entry points that will help residents access and navigate this park.”

“These innovative partnerships are at the heart of building thriving and livable cities,” said Evergreen CEO Geoff Cape. “Thank you to our donors and partners for their extraordinary support and dedication in giving Torontonians and visitors to our great city access to the incredible green space that is the Lower Don.”

Read the full release