A Danforth Ave. restaurant where three people have been killed in the past three years — including a fatal drive-by shooting this past weekend — is being converted into a child care centre.

Councillor Mary Fragedakis said the child care centre — to be operated by new management — is scheduled to open at the site of the former Rotana/Cloud Nine café on Danforth Ave. near Coxwell in July.

“It will be a significant change in the neighbourhood, but a positive change,” Fragedakis said in an interview on Tuesday.

She said she understood that talks between the site’s landlord and the day care operators have been in the works for awhile.

“My understanding is they have been in discussions for a very long time,” Fragedakis said. “It didn’t just happen there overnight.”

The dramatic shift in the facility’s use comes after the city pulled the café’s business license for two weeks on Monday. Then the landlord evicted the tenant altogether.

The tenant could not be reached for comment on Tuesday.

After the shutdown, Councillor Paula Fletcher triumphantly tweeted a photo of the bailiff’s notice saying the lease of the Cloud Nine Café had been terminated.

“CLOSED! Bailif closed it down today,” Fletcher tweeted on Tuesday.

“Baillif takes possession of Rotana/Cloud Nine. Locks changed GONE. Community has finally been heard!,” Fletcher said in another tweet.

“Finally!” Councillor Mary Fragedakis tweeted.

The notice is dated April 18, just a day after a fatal drive-by shooting early Sunday.

Abdullah Farah, 20, of Toronto was fatally shot on the sidewalk outside the restaurant around 1:30 a.m. in what police believe was a targeted shooting.

Reaction was immediate and sharp, with Fragedakis tweeting, “@PaulaFletcher30 & I are asking ‘landlord, landlord where are you?” on Sunday afternoon.

“Even Lightning does not strike the same place 3 times!” Fragedakis tweeted.

“Now maybe authorities will believe us — no a co-incidence,” Fletcher added on Twitter. “Mayor and Chief need to step up.”

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Councillor Janet Davis also denounced the establishment, tweeting: “Cllrs try to use what regs we have to sanction and close bad bars. But provincial AGCO (Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario) keeps giving liquor licenses.”

In 2015, Abdiweli Mohamed Yusuf, 21, was shot to death inside the café.

Markham firefighter Dominic Parker, 45, was stabbed to death in 2013 when the Rotana Café operated at the same site.