One Bloor East, Mixed-use skyscraper at Bloor Street and Yonge Street, Toronto, Canada
One Bloor East is a mixed-use residential tower at the intersection of Bloor Street and Yonge Street with 76 above-ground floors and multiple levels below ground. The building combines apartments, retail shops, and amenity spaces in one structure at this central downtown location.
A 60-storey tower was proposed for the site in 2005, then sold to Bazis International, which announced an 80-storey design by Rosario Varacalli in 2007. After the 2008 demolition of a two-storey retail building housing a Harvey's and City Optical, Bazis sold to Great Gulf in July 2009. Great Gulf's Hariri Pontarini-designed tower began construction in August 2011 and topped out in late 2015 at 257 metres.
The six-storey podium holds 9,300 m² of retail space. Nordstrom Rack opened its first Canadian store here in May 2018 and closed it in May 2023. Chick-fil-A opened its first standalone Canadian location at street level on September 6, 2019, drawing protests because of the chain owner's donations to anti-LGBT organizations and the site's proximity to Church and Wellesley.
The building offers clear access to its retail and public spaces, with straightforward navigation from the street level. Its position at this major intersection makes it easy to reach by transit and find from surrounding neighborhoods.
The two-storey building demolished in December 2008 housed a Harvey's burger outlet and City Optical on its ground floor. The site had earlier been the subject of a 2005 proposal by Young and Wright for a 60-storey tower, and Bazis bought the land for $63 million in 2007.
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