• Featured: Riverside Blog Series Features Wedding Planning; Welcome to the Neighbourhood – M’Eat Resto Butcher; Riverside Architecture Walk is July 28
• BIA Notices/Reminders: Recommend a Renovation Contractor; Reminder re-Business Sidewalk Signs; 311 Toronto as a Resource; Filming Notice from Second Bedford Productions
• Upcoming Riverside BIA Member Happenings 
• Neighbourhood News: Cultural Hotspot Loops Guide East York/East End is Out!; Innovation in the Auto Sector with Riverside Square

Submit YOUR Riverside news/ events via office@riverside-to.com

Getting ready for the day you say, “I DO” is certainly exciting but it’s no easy mission. Fortunately, in Toronto’s romantic Riverside neighbourhood, you’ll be able to check everything off your list of wedding needs from cute stationary and gifts to beautiful and one-of-a-kind bridal gowns and award-winning florists.

After you’ve curated the perfect wedding folder with inspiring ideas, worked out your budget, picked the wedding party, and sorted out the guest list it’s time to shop, choose your party venues, reserve dates, and send your invites – and Riverside let’s you do it all within a convenient 10 blocks walk…

Read the full article on the Riverside Blog

Learn all about M’Eat’s program and ‘m’eat’ their chefs on the Riverside Blog.

Check out their Instagram and stop in and help give them a warm welcome!

About the Walk leader:   Ron Fletcher is a local historian, Founder and President of the Riverdale Historical Society, Founder of the Riverdale Art Walk (now in its 20th year), Author of ‘Over the Don’ and a past Chair of the Riverside BIA.

This guided tour is part of Riverside Walks, a series of free local walking tours throughout the spring, summer and fall (May-October). Big thanks to 2018 Walks Sponsor Team Sheppard Re/MAX Hallmark.

Check out more Riverside Walks at www.riverside-to.com/events/riverside-walks/

Our 2018 calendar shows an overview of what’s happening this year! Email marketing@riverside-to.com anytime with you questions/ to get involved.  p.s. Check out our detailed Riverside Online Events Calendar which showcases BIA member and community events – to get your event posted, submit anytime to marketing@riverside-to.com

The Riverside BIA office is building a list of recommended contractors to share back out with Riverside BIA members (you!). We are looking to add to this list: contractors that are suitable for jobs for small businesses, are relatively local (Toronto/GTA), and have done good professional renos in your experience.

Please recommend anybody you’ve worked with (e.g. painters, electricians, tilers, brickwork, custom signage, lighting, dry-walling, general contractors, etc).

Please email info to Lais at the Riverside BIA office at outreach@riverside-to.com, including:

• Contractor name/company name:
• Contact info (phone/email):
• What they do (e.g. dry-walling, painting, etc):

We look forward to sharing the full list back with you to help with Riverside BIA members’ day-to-day contractor needs and for your future applications to the Commercial Facade Improvement Grant (annual grant, applications accepted each February)

Your sign size must be between 0.5m and 1m height, no wider than 0.6m

Your permitted sign must allow min of 2.1m of unobstructed space for pedestrians to pass, and can only be displayed during business hours

• Every business displaying a portable sign (e.g. A-Frame) must first obtain a permit to do so (693-21)
• Your permitted sign must be located on the public property (e.g. the sidewalk) adjacent to your business
• Your sign must allow for an unobstructed pedestrian clearway of a minimum of 2.1m
• No more than one portable sign can be displayed for a business
• Your sign can only be displayed during your business operating hours
• Sign size must be between 0.5m and 1m in height, and no wider than 0.6 m

This reminder is being sent as the Riverside BIA and Councillor’s office have received complaints from local residents related to business signs obstructing sidewalks. While anyone can file a complaint with the City’s Municipal Licensing and Standards office, it is important for businesses and residents to work together in efforts to resolve disputes prior to involving authorities.

Having great business-community relations is what makes Riverside a great place to live, work and play, so please be respectful of the rules and please work with residents and each other when these issues arise. Thank you!

Temporary Sign Permit Application form available here.

Notice from Second Bedford Productions:
To Residents & Businesses in the vicinity of Opera House, 735 Queen Street East: We will be prepping, filming and wrapping for interior scenes at Opera House as follows:
PREP: July 15th – 18th: 7:00am – 7:00pm
FILMING: July 19 & 20 – 8:00am–1:00 AM and July 23 & 24 – 7:00am–11:00pm
WRAP: July 25th – 7:00am – 6:00pm

Our production vehicles and various pieces of film equipment will be located on:

• PREP/ WRAP:  S/side Queen St. btwn Broadview Av & Lewis St. – July 15–18 & 25 – 7am to 8pm; W/s Lewis St. btwn Queen St E & south end of the Opera House – July 15 @ 7am – July 24 @ 11pm;
• FILMING:    –     S/side Queen St. btwn Broadview Av & Saulter St. – July 18 @ 6:00pm – July 20 @ 1:00Am and again July 22 @ 6:00pm – July 24 @ approx 11:00pm. (**Please note: Each day we will flip our vehicles to the north side of Queen before afternoon rush hours – approx 3:00pm until 8:00pm and then swap sides again each day); N/s Queen St E btwn Broadview & Boulton – July 19, 20, 23 & 24 – at approx 4pm to 9:00pm each day; E/s Broadview btwn Eastern Av & Queen St – July 18 @ 6pm – July 20 @ 1:00Am and again July 22 @ 6pm to July 24 @ 11:00pm ((**Please note: Each day we will need flip our vehicles to the west side during afternoon rush hours – approx 4:00pm to 9:00Pm each day); W/s Lewis St. btwn Queen St E & south end of Opera House – July 18 @ 6pm – July 24 @ 11:00pm.

We would like to accommodate any displaced permit parkers affected by our filming. Kindly contact Chris Moulson in advance of the filming to make arrangements.Chris Moulson, Asst. Location Manager,  E: flicksdrivein@hotmail.com,  C: 416-891-6000

Bon Voyage George!

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