Good Afternoon Broadview Danforth BIA Members, Recently our Board Chair, Albert Stortchak, and I met with Jack Wiley from Alpha House located at 647 Broadview Avenue (just outside of our BIA boundary). Established in 1972, Alpha House is a Toronto recovery community supporting men rebuilding their lives after addiction treatment. Attached please find a full information sheet on the work that they do. On August 31 (Overdose Awareness Day) they will host a Run For Recovery event in Riverdale park.…

Good Morning BIA Members, This is an early heads-up on the full closure of Danforth for next week's Taste event. Full closure will begin on Friday, Aug. 7 at 9am and will reopen on Monday, Aug. 10 at 4am. My suggestion is that you all look at your delivery schedules for next week and try to move any deliveries set for Friday, Aug. 7 to Thursday, Aug. 6. I will send another reminder next Tuesday after the holiday Monday. Thanks,…

Good Morning Broadview Danforth BIA members, Tomorrow Councillor Paula Fletcher will recognize BIA business members who have been in business for 50+ years! The ceremony will take place in the courtyard of the Carrot Common starting at 9:30am and you're all welcome to stop by if your schedules allow. The Broadview Danforth businesses being honoured are: The Albany Clinic (1946), founded by four physicians returning from World War II; The Danforth Music Hall (1978), originally Allen’s Danforth Theatre built in…

Good Afternoon Broadview Danforth BIA Members, One of our members just alerted me to an email they received; please see below. This is a scam. They don't have the correct name for Greektown and the word Danforth is spelled incorrectly in the website link. If you receive this email or a similar one, please do NOT click on the link. Registration for Taste is handled exclusively by the Greektown BIA and the registration window is closed. Dear vendor, We would…

Good Morning Broadview Danforth BIA Members, This is a bit of a variety pack of updates and info for you - please take a couple of minutes to read through. FIFA International Music Series Our FIFA World Within Our Neighbourhood events continue with live music in our two CafeTO parkettes on each of the Toronto match days. The bands performing will represent the countries playing in the specific matches. Here's the line-up starting with tonight (Weds): Wednesday June 17th 6-8pm…

Good Afternoon Broadview Danforth Members, A number of you have been emailing today about your Taste forms. I'm just back in my office after running our own FIFA event today. I will also be out of the office tomorrow managing our second event day. Greektown BIA has extended the deadline till next Tuesday (free of charge/fee). Their office hours for the next couple of days are as follows: Today: 1:30PM - 6PMSaturday: 11:30AM - 12:30PMMonday: 9AM - 6PMTuesday: 9AM -…