11-18-2025, 05:45 PM
(11-18-2025, 12:44 PM)neonjoe Wrote:(11-18-2025, 06:27 AM)nms Wrote: It would be interesting to know a bit more about why the pub is closing. Did rent go up so the pub was no longer viable? Did the owner want to retire but no one else wanted to take it over? Waterloo Region has and had it's share of unique spaces; some survive and some don't. Yes, a built landscape that looks and sounds like any other urban environment isn't exactly inspiring to anyone who is visiting or deciding to make a place their home.
Related UT thread:
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/to...ium.32498/
Basically the building was sold, the owner is 80 and not interested in creating a "new Imperial".
https://globalnews.ca/news/11460283/impe...-81-years/