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Toronto Eaton Centre
History
The various buildings Eaton Yonge and Queen in 1920, showing land ownership Eaton on the current site of the Toronto Eaton Centre.
Timothy Eaton founded a dry goods store on Yonge Street in the 19th century, and that little shop next to revolutionize retailing in Canada, which is now the largest department store chain in the country. By the 20th century, the Eaton's chain owned most of the land bounded by Yonge, Queen, Bay and Dundas streets, with the notable exception of the old city hall and the Church of the Holy Trinity. Eaton lands, once the site of the first store of Timothy Eaton, was occupied by Eaton's main Eaton's Annex and a number of related mail order and factory buildings. As the warehouse chain and operations support increasingly switching to cheaper local suburb in the 1960s, Eaton wanted to make better use of its land holdings of valuable downtown. In particular, the chain wanted to build a massive new flagship store to replace the main store at Yonge and Queen and the Eaton's College Street store a few blocks north.
In the mid-1960s, Eaton's announced plans for a massive office and retail complex occupying several city blocks. Initial plans for the center called for the demolition of two former City Hall (except for the clock tower and cenotaph) and the Church of the Holy Trinity, and the closure of a number of small streets city in the block above (Albert Street, Louisa Street, Terauley Street, James Street, Albert Lane, Lane Downey and Trinity Square). At one point, even the clock tower of City Hall was slated for demolition. After a heated local debate over the fate of the town hall and church buildings, Eaton has put its plans on hold in 1967.
Eaton Centre plans were resuscitated in 1971, although these plans allowed for the Preservation of Old City Hall. The controversy erupted again, however, that the congregation of the Church of Holy Trinity shown an increased willingness to fight against the demolition plans for his church. Finally, Eaton Centre plans were revised to save the Old Town Hall and the church, then further revised the parishes of Holy Trinity successfully fought to ensure that the new complex would not block all sunlight to church.
These plan amendments resulted in three significant changes in the center of the initial draft of the 1960 concept. Firstly, the new Eaton's store was moved north to Dundas Street, the new store would be too large to be hosted in its usual location on Queen Street (in front of his rival Simpson) because preservation of City Hall. This resulted in the mall under construction with Eaton and Simpson acting as anchors at each end. The second major change was the reduction of the size of the office component, so that the project Eaton Centre was no longer an attempt to extend north of the city's financial district of Queen Street, the Eaton family had initially considered in the 1960s. Finally, the bulk of the center was moved to the east of the Yonge Street frontage, and the complex was designed so that it no longer had any frontage along Bay Street. Old City Hall and the church were saved, as was the headquarters building of the Army under Hi its location between two other buildings preserved (although the building of the Army was finally demolished Hi in the 1990s to make way for an expansion of the Eaton Centre).
Construction
The Toronto Eaton Centre, south along Yonge Street from Dundas Street, in contrast with the old facade.
Eaton's in partnership with Cadillac Fairview Development Bank and Toronto-Dominion in the construction of the Eaton Centre. The complex was designed by Eberhard Zeidler and Bregman + Hamann Architects as multi-level galleria glass domed ceiling, mo.