Take a look at this building:
…and then this building:
Believe it or not, these buildings aren’t just in the same neighbourhood, they’re right beside each other. I took both photos on the same day, perhaps 15 seconds apart. Good landscaping and decent signage make a big difference.
(I really hate the sign on High Park Manor, from the all-wrong-for-the-building choice of typefaces, to the fluorescent-backlit sign that makes the place look like a convenience store rather than an apartment across the street from the city’s largest park.)
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High Park Manor isn’t an apartment building, it’s a group home/assisted housing/what have you for mentally ill people.
That’s where all the crazies in the park live.
@yipyip: I was always under the impression that the crazies wandered up from Lakeshore. Clearly I pass by High Park Manor at the wrong/right (depending on one’s perspective) times.
Never been inside the place, but I tend to agree with Joey. It doesn’t really seem like a mecca for the mentally ill.
But this doc has it listed as a retirement home, so it’s not an apartment building. The highly-contrasted, lit signage is probably for the benefit of the aged residents.