Bad times for Milton-Parc merchants
Owners with businesses around Milton-Parc are falling on hard times as many students who used to frequent their cafés are staying away because it’s become the haunt of homeless people and drug dealers.
TVA links this story to the recent claims that two thirds of people who work downtown find the whole area has become run down and dangerous.
Ian 10:16 on 2025-09-10 Permalink
The street construction and building renovation everywhere doesn’t help either, I’m sure. The cafe on the NW corner in partiucular seems to have suffered – it’s a very unwelcoming area what with the cones, nets, heavy equipment, detours, impatient drivers, rerouted bicyclists, and of course the homeless trying to find a spot to simply be in the midst of it all.
DeWolf 12:04 on 2025-09-10 Permalink
The café you’re thinking of actually moved across the street into the funny hut that was once home to a Second Cup.
But yeah, the scene has gotten rough at the corner. The group of Inuit people who used to congregate there has been supplanted by a different, edgier crowd. Lots of pretty obvious dealers too.
Ian 15:23 on 2025-09-10 Permalink
Yeah there’s crack dancers some mornings. Good to know the café moved, thanks 🙂