More businesses boarded up downtown ahead of planned demonstrations, Eaton Centre to close until Monday

Chris Fox, CP24.comBusinesses are continuing to be boarded up downtown amid concerns that several planned demonstrations could get out hand and the Eaton Centre now says that it will close its doors as a precaution.

On Friday, morning CP24's cameras captured crews putting up plywood sheets along the exterior of College Park shopping complex near Carlton and Yonge streets. On Thursday night, crews were also seen doing the same at several businesses near Yonge-Dundas Square, including the Eaton Centre, the Saks Fifth Avenue department store, a Shopper’s Drug Mart location and a Foot Locker store.

The Best Buy location near Bay and Dundas streets already boarded up the entrance to their store on Monday after the Downtown Yonge BIA notified its members about information it had received about possible vandalism downtown from a “credible source.” The Bay department store on Queen Street West also did the same.

Saunders did not provide specific details about the precautions that police were taking, saying that it would be “foolish” to provide operational details.

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