The Globe and Mail

It's where Glenn Gould had his famous, fatal stroke and Axl Rose stayed far from the madding crowd; where a Soviet prime minister spent a night in 1971 at a cost of $160 to the Canadian taxpayer, and Manhattan's "Killer Joe" Piro taught the matrons of Leaside and Lawrence Park the frug and the watusi in what was advertised as Canada's first disco. And, starting this weekend, it's where the eyes of developers and owners of so-called "heritage properties" in Ontario are going to be firmly fixed for the next several months. After being in business since April of 1963, Toronto's Inn on the Park closed its doors this week, apparently forever, letting go of the last of its 150 employees, and setting the stage for what could be a historic battle between developers and architecture conservationists.