What does DTK need?

[tomh009]

There a very few non-restaurant businesses on King St

From memory, and between Queen and Victoria (excluding restaurants and cafes): there are at least two dollar stores, five bars, three night clubs, a barber shop, a shoe store, condo sales/rentals, a pharmacy, four banks, a museum, a thrift shop, a concert hall, an LCBO, a beer store, a grocery store, a shoe store, a clothing/yoga store, two used book stores, and a bunch of cannabis shops. Not that I wouldn't like to see more, but it's not 90% restaurants.

I'm old enough to remember when there were four movie houses in DTK, a bowling alley, a number of bars, etc - it was busy at night, especially on weekends.  Add in the teenagers/twenty somethings cruising up and down King St and it could feel very lively indeed in the evening.

No movies but I do count five bars between Queen and Victoria: Vineology, AOK, Bobby O'Brien's, the Taco bar and Half Moon (maybe Mehman Nawazi should also count?).