02/24/2026
Your support, every purchase, every kind message, every offer to help us find a new location—and especially the incredibly generous offer from someone who even offered to help cover our rent for a few months—has left me truly humbled and emotional.
Being in business for 29 years is not common. With our other business reaching 60 years, I can tell you it takes determination, perseverance, and wit to keep going. It also takes years of community-building—real relationships, trust, and care. And the truth is, it takes a lot to force a 29-year-old business out. I really believed we had another 20 years ahead of us. But the reality is, the rent was *drastically* increased, and it simply didn’t make sense.
I don’t know what it means right now. Yes, we can find another location—we are always working, always creating, always finding ways to evolve and stay current. But right now, I need a moment to sit with these 29 years and everything they meant.
I’ve had the privilege of hiring and working alongside the most incredible women. They carried this business with heart, with pride, and with care—often stepping in so I could step away, treating it as if it were their own. That’s rare. That’s special. This place was special because of them, and because of all of you.
Toronto is losing family businesses that have been around for years—and that’s not good for community building. These are the places where connections happen, where people stop in for a chat, where neighborhoods feel like neighborhoods.
That’s what PG was about. Local conversation, familiar faces, a sense of belonging. And we’re losing that.
Thank you for being part of something that meant so much to me.
-A