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• Mcdermot Is Downtown's New Retail Avenue

For my grandparents' generation, the changes over the decades would certainly be immeasurable. Few traces remain of the halcyon days of streetcars, late nights at Child's restaurant, Eaton's window displays, or the throngs of elegant women in hats and gloves by Holt Renfrew, and stylish men in Biltmore fedoras. Portage Avenue has become dull, megalithic and ugly. Meanwhile, Hilary Druxman's jewelry boutique at McDermot and Arthur is perhaps the closest a Prairie city can come to capturing the essence of Manhattan's SoHo district: subtle, sophisticated, but always hip. Albert, Arthur and [Andrew McDermot] have also been fortunate enough to have largely escaped the voracious pursuit for fast automobile movement, which as Mr. [Harold Buchwald] points out, assisted in the dilution of Porta...

... the corner to Main Street, where a hair salon is set to open up next to the Woodbine Hotel. . Me... parking lots are necessary for economic renewal, should explain Corydon Avenue where there isn't a... undoubtedly could be the next frontier of urban restoration. To attract people and money, an urban...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 21, 2009