One Yonge Street

One Yonge Street (also known as the Toronto Star Building) is a 25-storey office building that serves as the headquarters of Torstar and its flagship newspaper, the Toronto Star. It is 100 metres tall, and is built in the International style. It was built as a replacement to the Old Toronto Star Building, which was located at 80 King Street West. That building was torn down to make room for First Canadian Place.

One Yonge Street
One Yonge Street in 2008
Alternative namesToronto Star Building
General information
StatusComplete
TypeOffice
Address1 Yonge Street
Town or cityToronto, Ontario
CountryCanada
Current tenants
Zeinact Ventures, Collège Boréal
Completed1970
Opened1971
Height333 feet (101 m)
Technical details
Floor count25

It is located at 1 Yonge Street at Queens Quay, and marks the foot of what was Highway 11, mistakenly believed to be "the longest street in the world".

The building also housed the printing presses for the Toronto Star newspaper, until 1992 when a new press centre was opened in Vaughan, Ontario. The finished newspaper content is sent electronically to the plant where the plates are burnt and the paper gets printed and distributed. Editorial content of the newspaper is produced by employees working on the fifth floor. It also has the headquarters of Torstar.[1]

The office space at One Yonge Street is also leased out to a variety of other companies, including Pinnacle International, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation, RL Solutions, Starbucks, Luminus Financial, a dental office, and the downtown Toronto campus of Collège Boréal.[2]

The property is owned by Pinnacle International.

Proposed future development

The parking lot and podium associated with this building are part of a high-profile development known as Pinnacle One Yonge by developer Pinnacle International and designed by Hariri Pontarini Architects. The project includes five skyscrapers on two parcels of land bisected by an eastern extension of Harbour Street. The tallest tower would reach 95 storeys for a total height of 307 metres, making it the largest in Canada.[3] The three residential towers would total 2,962 condo units, and the two commercial towers would provide 154,000 sq.m of space.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Contact Us." Torstar. Retrieved on 7 June 2012. "Corporate Office One Yonge Street, Toronto, Canada M5E 1P9"
  2. "College Boreal to spend $3.8 million on new Toronto campus". Sudbury Star, January 25, 2012.
  3. "Pinnacle One Yonge Models and Diagrams Show More Detail | Urban Toronto". urbantoronto.ca. Retrieved 2018-07-09.
  4. "1-7 Yonge Redevelopment to Include Toronto's Tallest Tower". UrbanToronto. March 24, 2016.

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