Revitalizing the Regent Theatre

May 18, 2024

Rachel Van Fraassen, Chief of Staff

Councillor’s Office, Ward 15
Rachel.VanFraassen@toronto.ca

Dear Rachel Van Fraassen,

Eglinton Park Residents’ Association (EPRA) has been following the plans for a revitalized Regent Theatre with great interest. To us it has seemed a bold and very welcome project, bringing live theatre and good facilities to Midtown/North Toronto, an ever-growing part of our city where cultural life, the artistic sort especially, remains rather stunted.

Accordingly, the EPRA board were sorry to see the matter go to court, at the request of local residents who felt that their peaceful evenings would be disrupted.

We do hope that their concerns can be accommodated or soothed without derailing what seems to us an excellent project.

We know that SEDRA has been a champion of the theatre’s revival and that, for this case, they have Participant status at the OLT. They are an excellent ally in urban matters; we have long collaborated, at Canada Square especially. EPRA wrote offering our support and they suggested that we write you stating our formal backing for the theatre’s renewal.

Best wishes,