‘City of Film’ Dedicated to Moving Image.

It seems The Entertainment District is constantly transforming but perhaps no new addition is more eagerly anticipated than the completion of The Toronto International Film Festival Group’s Bell Lightbox. This stunning new building will provide TIFF with a permanent home for the first time in its history. The Toronto International Film Festival has helped put Toronto on the map for the world’s top film stars, creative minds and fans. With the completion of the Bell Lightbox, TIFF will become more than just an annual event in the Fall. Indeed, TIFF will draw film lovers to Toronto – and our neighbourhood – all year long for programs like Sprockets and Cinematheque Ontario.

Master Plan identifies John Street as 'spine' of downtown Toronto

On Tuesday June 16th, The Toronto Entertainment District Business Improvement Area successfully launched its Master Plan – a vision for the future of the Entertainment District that will ensure the needs of existing and future businesses, residents, tourists and Torontonians are harmonized with the area’s ongoing transformation and revitalization.

The Sound of Music a boost for Entertainment District 

Theatregoers can’t seem to get enough, it seems, of Maria and the singing von Trapp family, building confidence for area businesses that thrive on such successes.

Stadium celebrates 20 years, but built for 200

The stadium business has long been a competitive sport and Toronto’s Rogers Centre, twenty years old this summer, has proved to be a champion. At its opening in 1989, The Skydome (as it was known before Rogers Communications purchased the venue in 2005) set the standard for large scale sports venues, with its space-age retractable roof (the first of its kind), state-of-the-art facilities for multiple events, and its luxury hotel.

Discussion includes nightlife economy, hospitality and safety

Last month, nightlife experts from New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco met in Toronto for a one-day conference to discuss how to best make a city thrive. The experts shared their success stories in the areas of management, policing and planning of a better nightlife for their own city and how some of those ideas could be implemented in Toronto.

Development brings new wave of clientele to celebrity hotspot

Kit Kat on King Street West is one of the Entertainment District’s originals, and a favourite among theatregoers. In 1989, when customers first squeezed into the restaurant’s

Revitalization mixes Railway Museum with shopping, public park

The revitalized John Street Roundhouse, featuring a 40,000 sq. ft. Leon’s Furniture store, the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre and adjacent Roundhouse Park, is now officially open.