Tag: London downtown
Musicians, fireworks to help ring in the New Year at Victoria Park
New Year’s celebrations are coming back to Victoria Park this holiday season, following a two-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. “We’re so excited to bring New Year’s Eve in the Park back once again for all Londoners to enjoy and ring in the new year together,” Marcus Plowright, chair of the New Year’s Eve […]
St. Paul’s downtown meal program returns, seeks donations for Christmas
An essential meal program for homeless Londoners downtown has returned after a two-year absence because of the pandemic. “We’re back downtown and that’s where we should be. This is our home,” Heather McNamara, co-ordinator of the Fellowship Centre at St. Paul’s Social Services, said Thursday. The first sit-down meal Thursday drew about 40 people, but […]
Core office vacancy rate remains high as companies shift to hybrid work
One in four office spaces in downtown London remains empty as the core continues to struggle with pandemic hangover, according to recent commercial realty reports.
Letters to the Editor: September 14, 2022
Vote for core action
Letters to the Editor: September 10, 2022
Core action needed
Along Dundas Place, relief as politicians fight strip club, body rub palour
The decision is not yet final, but downtown merchants along Dundas Place say they’re heaving a sigh of relief after city politicians put the brakes on separate plans to move a strip club and a body rub parlour to the city’s core.
London police opening downtown storefront office for foot patrol unit
London police plan to increase their downtown presence by opening an office for its community foot patrol unit in the city’s core.
London Ribfest draws record crowd to cap city’s summer festival season
Downtown London’s summer festival season ended with a record-setting crowd flocking to Victoria Park over the civic holiday long weekend.
Letters to the Editor: July 15, 2022
Reap what you sow
BRT construction going day and night in downtown London
The sounds of construction will ring out day and night this week in downtown London.