Furniture / Toronto
In good shape
Despite soaring rents, Toronto’s creatives are working hard to preserve and evolve the city’s design heritage.
Since 1893 the smell of chocolate has drifted out of an imposing factory along Sterling Road, a light-industrial area in Toronto’s West End. And while the scent announces the presence of manufacturing – Nestlé produces some 3.5 billion Smarties per year here – change, too, is in the air. Once home to an eclectic mix of manufacturers, today this district’s smokestacks are being felled in favour of technology offices and townhouses. It’s a common theme for Toronto, where soaring rents are seeing the small manufacturers that once dominated the inner…
