Tag Archives: Financial District

Bell in Brief: Lyceum was birthplace of modern Toronto theatre

In 1849, wealthy landowner John Ritchey built the Royal Lyceum Theatre on King St. W. It was Toronto’s first purpose-built theatre. The Lyceum (which eventually burned down in 1875) was the largest and the first fully-equipped theater in Toronto. It had ...

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CIBC plans major Financial District relocation

CIBC announced on April 12 that it has agreed to become the anchor tenant of Bay Park Centre, a new urban campus at 81 and 141 Bay Street, Toronto, that will be developed and jointly managed by Ivanhoé Cambridge and Hines, with construction starting ...

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Servier Canada opens Downtown office

Servier Canada, the Canadian subsidiary of Servier, the second largest French pharmaceutical company, has just opened its new offices in the TD Canada Trust tower at 161 Bay St. “Establishing a strong footprint in Downtown Toronto is part of our ...

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Wellington St. construction begins April 10

Wellington Street, from Church Street to York Street will have lane reductions beginning April 10 until September 2017. Richmond Street or King Street will be alternative routes for westbound cyclists and drivers. The City of Toronto is taking steps to ...

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Humes: Downtown workers come in from far and wide

Grant Humes– The City of Toronto recently presented its Toronto Employment Survey 2015 at the February Planning and Growth Committee, and the numbers are good. Toronto saw its second-best year of employment growth in the last decade, adding 37,870 jobs, ...

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Downtown office market breaks new records

Even with another million square foot (msf) office tower coming to market in the first quarter of 2016, vacancy refuses to budge in downtown Toronto, and remains at a two-year record-low 4.6%, where it’s now sat for the past three ...

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