Toronto's 'Clubland' no longer booming

I know some Torontonians are upset with the club district changes.

As mentioned in a recent article in The Star, at the beginning of the decade Toronto's club district was one of the densest in the world. This density created resulted in the lack of diversity disease which is not good for a city.

Symptoms of lack of diversity disease in clubland:

• Crime: drunkenness, fighting, heavy policing costs, familiar smell of urine in alleys, trash on people's homes and businesses
• Inefficient use of land: thousands of party goers Thursday through Saturday nights, dead during the days. More diverse and lively areas have people spread out through the day
• Area becomes a fad as people get tired of the "scene"
  

Solution: Diversity

How to spur diversity organically

• Increase population density (adding condos was a good move)
• Have a diversity of uses (adding jobs i.e. The Score, Hotels to bring tourists, restaurants/clubs, shopping, tourist attractions, theatres, concert halls etc - Bell Light Box)
• Regulating so there is not too much of one thing. Shouldn't allow too many clubs or too many condos
• Slow re-development to keep interesting spaces in older buildings that will have cheaper lease rates than what can be afforded in a brand new building.
  

More people want to be in a lively area and lively areas are diverse areas. Lively cities will always be a great tourist attractors and make real estate more valuable