By: Shawn Micallef
It’s opening day today and Dundas Street has the feel of one of the gala film festival openings with police directing traffic and people lined up down the block. Even at 1pm, there was a line under half of the entire Galleria Italia overhang (that front porch Gehry talked about yesterday) in anticipation of the 4pm grand public opening. Torontonians, it would seem, are excited and eager to get inside. Outside half of McCaul is closed down for a street party, and along the line a handful of artists were capturing the scene. After a few years of this stretch of Dundas being closed to the public, inhabited only by hard-hatted workers and big machines, it’s nice to see it so full of people again. As it should be.
