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It’s an incident that has come to be known in local lore as the “Yom Kippur Rebellion.” And it was, remarkably, neither the first nor the last explosion of bad blood between the well-heeled residents of 77 Avenue Rd. and the mall’s owners.

The fight — over renovations and power and courtesy — has stretched on for more than three years, winding its way in and out of court, and leaving feelings bruised on all sides.

The residents accuse the mall of, among other things, shutting off their power without notice, tearing out expensive shared equipment without consultation, and eradicating a fire exit on their terrace. The mall developers, meanwhile, claim they have done everything they can to accommodate the condo owners, while doing renovations that benefit everyone in the long run.

What’s clear is that some owners have come to hate the developer in a visceral way.

“They despise First Capital,” says Marilyn Snead, president of the condo board. “They’re boycotting the mall.”

With the renovations nowhere near complete, the fight looks set to drag on for years, roiling up tempers in a tony Toronto enclave and highlighting the problems that can come when residential and commercial real estate intertwine.

The roots of the struggle trace back to that very mixing. From the outside, the condo complex and the mall look like one building. They share a common exterior, but have separate entrances. The mall, which used to be known as Hazelton Lanes and includes a Whole Foods grocery store, takes up most of the street level, while the condo, which has 71 units, stretches six storeys above and behind it.