Downtown restaurants and parking lots already seeing dip in revenue
Protesters representing gay, lesbian and transgendered people marched along Yonge St. Tuesday in a G20 protest to raise awareness of violence against the queer and trans communities.
RICK MADONIK/TORONTO STARLiam Casey
There are no tumbleweeds rolling down Bay St. just yet but the signs are everywhere: downtown Toronto is set to become a ghost town once the G20 takes over.
The summit is just days away and while protesters and police are beginning to flood the downtown core, the well-heeled and pinstriped are starting to flee.
Big banks have already kicked in their contingency plans, emptying their Bay St. towers as employees work from home or satellite locations. At the Bank of Montreal, about 20 per cent of its approximately 6,000 downtown workers are already offsite, with as many as 75 per cent expected to stay away Thursday and Friday.Read on...
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