Toronto Sun Building Mural...

...has been bulldozed, to make way for an LCBO, a paintball facility (including laser tag!), a No Frills, and maybe a Dollarama. Or so I've been told.  But the abject humiliation does not end there! I hear that The Sun staff has been crammed onto floors 13 and 13-A. One floor up from them is a radical mosque, which calls adherents to jihad 9 times a day through weird horns that sound like somebody was trying to make bag-pipes sound shittier. One of the loud-speakers they use--bolted into marble gifted to the T.O. Sun founding fathers by Prince Henrich in the old days when things were way whiter--is right outside Ezra Levant's office, which used to be a stall in the mens-room. He's also the guy they expect to answer the buzzer and  tell any errant jihadis they're on the wrong floor.  He's supposed to be polite about it too.  All that "politically incorrect" bullshit goes out the window when the folks paying the bills show up.

How The Mighty Have Fallen

An anonymous TSF reader says the first floor of the recently sold Toronto Sun building will become a Loblaws store later this year.

Rumor has it the National Post HQ on Don Mills will be converted into a paint-ball facility. Defcon is looking to expand. A better class of people will moving in. Gentrification, and all that.

Not Waiting For The Asteroid: T.O. Sun Goin' T.U.?

Maybe not, but The Toronto Sun Building at 333 King looks to be "available"--up for sale in other words.

Its business apparently cannibalized by the success of its own free paper, it isn't surprising that the Sun might be looking to downsize. But this Toronto Star article says no decision has been made as to whether their staff will stay in the building as tenants or relocate. Mind you, the Sun management is also claiming that the sale of the building is only being "considered"; well, if its already in this database I'd say the decision has been made already.

By the way, the Urbandb website looks like a definite bookmark. It aims to be

...an online open-content collaborative effort to accurately document development and real-estate activity.

Kind of like a "wiki" for development activity. Probably useful to activists/researchers of all sorts. Currently, the kind of information it wants to offer for free is rather, rather expensive.

h/t J. D Creighton.