ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the acknowledgement of the intangible cultural heritage of the historic music venue through a reading in of intangibility into provisions that acknowledged the associative, historical, and contextual value of the space. The result of the protection is that the use of the space must be maintained as a live music venue, which is in line with the heritage protection it received and the historical legacy of the building. Delving further into the matter of a lack of engagement and consultation with affected (sub)cultural community members when their cultural and community gathering space is threatened by redevelopment processes, Comfort Zone provides an example. Comfort Zone represents a farther remove in “desirable” music culture and space in terms of the selectivity at play in Music City strategies, Toronto’s “growth machine”, and more generally by culture-based city redesign projects.
