Simcoe Place, Office skyscraper in Toronto, Canada
Simcoe Place is a glass and steel office tower on Front Street West in the heart of downtown Toronto, rising to 148 meters across 33 floors. The building is one of the taller structures in the area and serves primarily as commercial office space.
The tower was completed in 1995, making it the only major office building constructed in Toronto during a period of weak real estate activity in the city. Its opening came as the local market was beginning to recover after years of limited construction.
The tower's name comes from Simcoe Street, which runs alongside it. The building forms the commercial half of a complex shared with the CBC National Broadcast Centre next door, and its ground level holds a shopping centre serving the office workers above. The Workplace Safety & Insurance Board has its head office here.
The tower sits on Front Street West in downtown Toronto and is easy to reach on foot from nearby transit stops. As it is a private office building, visitors can generally only access the lobby and ground-floor common areas.
The Globe and Mail assigned reporter Mary Gooderham to cover the tower's construction for two years; she wrote 110 columns, later collected in the book A Building Goes Up: The Making of a Skyscraper. The building has 17 elevators.
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