Thread. If you keep putting condos on all the cool venues, pretty soon nobody is gonna wanna buy the condos.

Cities are destroying the nightlife economy not just when venues and businesses are literally demolished, but also when new towers go in too close by.

What happens to a great rooftop or patio when you get a "vertical suburb" next door?

Cultivating a nightlife economy is about more than just how you police it. Venue owners, especially small businesses, are absolutely terrified of city hall because 99% of their experiences are complaints, and totally unrealistic asks that threaten their already thin margins.

How are small businesses, artists, service industry workers - supposed to make a living? Noise bylaws already make it okay to start jackhammering at 7am, when a lot of these folk are trying to sleep. And yet somehow, they show up to work and still curate the escape 9-5ers crave.

So what's the solution? Creating districts? There's a huge chain that sells crafting materials where some of Toronto's most iconic clubs used to be. So clearly that worked well.

What needs to happen is the setting of fair neighbourhood expectations. It's become perfectly acceptable to sell units with a big notice that children won't be able to attend the local schools. Why can't similar expectations be set about noise and the vibe of the area?

It's likely the answer lies across a few factors - some of which are lack of political support for the nighttime economy, and condo boards.

If we consider the way condo boards run, it's pretty easy to recognize that they're generally not accessible or welcoming bodies for club-goers to join.

Lastly, having great bars, nightclubs & music venues needs to be a policy priority. Some cities make more options for save travel available- like London's "night tube". Toronto opened up a new event permit in parks for summer gigs, but put heavy restrictions, crushing revenues

If this sounds uninspiring - it's actually worse than that. Without fun, what does Toronto have other than a stock exchange? Creativity is already leaving Toronto, and pretty soon all that will be left behind are Pizza Pizzas and Sobeys Urban Fresh. That ain't worth the pricetag.

Alsoooooo let me just add that I am not against density. I just don't think the answer is forcing all of it into the core at the cost of the nightlife economy. Fix the missing middle, damnit. And set service levels at pace with growth, FFS!