Overview
- Community members, musicians and students packed a City Hall meeting to oppose a Goldberg Group plan to demolish the Bathurst and College building that houses Sneaky Dee’s and build a 16‑storey condo.
- The developer says arrangements would let Sneaky Dee’s stay until demolition, help find interim space and offer commercial rooms in the new building, but has not provided a legally binding guarantee that the venue will return.
- City councillors expressed sympathy for the venue but warned that provincial planning law and the Ontario Land Tribunal often limit Toronto’s ability to block or alter developer proposals.
- Council postponed a final decision to July 8 and 9, leaving the venue’s fate unresolved and giving opponents time to build petitions, deputations and political pressure before the vote.
- Sneaky Dee’s supporters point to the bar’s role as an affordable live‑music incubator and student hub since 1990 and say losing it would erase a rare cultural space in a market facing repeated condo development pressure.