House of Vintage Closes on Queen, Tentatively Enters Deadpool

House of VintageIt has only been four years but already the House of Vintage is calling it quits at 571 Queen Street West. The deceptively large and award winning vintage store is now shuttered - and added to the growing list of local businesses opting out of escalating rents on this stretch of Queen West.

In a note posted to the front window, the owner explains that they are not closing for long, but simply chose not to renew their lease. Watch for a new location to surface in about eight months.

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High rents and low traffic... those big box stores like H&M and the GAP ruined the neighborhood, because why would you travel all the way downtown for shit you can find at your local crap-mall? Shopping traffic has actually dropped in that area. I wonder when the city is actually going to do something about protecting what actually makes Toronto unique.

Posted by: Meg at June 5, 2008 1:55 PM

Hmm...so the H&M's and condos move into their area, they move further west into parkdale, and what happens to the businesses they displace there?

Posted by: guy lafleur at June 5, 2008 2:10 PM

re: guyThey simply move in to an empty building (or hopefully displace a shady "payday loan" place) near Roncesvales and you can pick up a pair of Chelsea boots you can later kick up on the teak coffee table you picked up at Queen Antiques.

Posted by: DH at June 5, 2008 2:20 PM

Add them to the list: Rotate This, Studio Brilliante (spelling?), and several others have all started to make the move west in anticipation of the box store explosion.

Posted by: Ryan LaFlamme at June 5, 2008 3:54 PM

yeah i work(ed) at a store on queen at spadina... a little independent store thats been around for YEARS.... as in 50 years.... and the rent went up by several THOUSANDS of dollars a month and there's no way a small independent store can survive

Posted by: girl at June 5, 2008 8:35 PM

Now that Urban Outfitters is open west of Spadina, the landlords are asking much higher rents.

Posted by: john at June 6, 2008 7:06 PM

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