plaza

A city-hired consultant came up with several cost-cutting measures, including the elimination of a public plaza originally planned as part of the expansion.

The plans describe the plaza as a "festive and exciting area rich with food and drink, retail, and entertainment offerings".

In a shopping plaza an hour outside Toronto, flanked by a day spa and a shawarma joint, sits a two-storey building with blue tinted windows reflecting the summer sun.

Cars battered the plaza four times in 2023 — one of the incidents was DUI related — and once in 2024 after the fountain had undergone a massive restoration project, authorities said.

The commissioners’ vote paves the way for demolition of six buildings in the plaza and ends a long-suffering chapter of commercial neglect in the San Fernando Valley.