ABSTRACT
This chapter examines another set of music venues. The Brunswick House was a historic music venue that has since been transformed through “adaptive reuse" into a chain drugstore location, and the Matador Ballroom is distinct amongst the music venues canvassed here as it remains dormant. Having been closed for years, its repeated attempts to reopen in order to return to operating as a live music venue faced ongoing opposition by the physically proximate community that grew and changed during the time that the Matador was not operating - in contrast to the more common situation of displacement or forced closure of music venues in Toronto.
