Yonge Eglinton Centre, Commercial complex at Yonge and Eglinton, Canada
Yonge Eglinton Centre is a commercial complex with two office towers and a shopping concourse in northern Toronto. The building connects directly to Eglinton subway station and houses over 65 stores, services, and entertainment venues including a cinema and restaurants.
Construction began in the early 1970s through a partnership between Greenwin and Horizon, requiring demolition of a Dominion supermarket, an F.W. Woolworth store and several homes to the west. The work proceeded in phases: first the 23-storey rental apartment at 411 Duplex Avenue, then 20 Eglinton Avenue West with half the retail concourse, then the rest of the retail and the 2300 Yonge Street tower, and finally the apartment complex at 33 Orchardview. In 1973 Eaton's opened a Horizon discount store on the site, converted to a regular Eaton's when the chain closed in January 1978; that store shut in the 1990s.
The retail concourse occupies three levels below the towers and holds over 65 stores and services, among them a Cineplex VIP cinema, Indigo Books, Winners and a Metro supermarket. Metro stands on the spot where a Dominion supermarket was demolished to clear the site, and the Eaton's space later passed to Winners, Pickle Barrel and GoodLife Fitness.
The complex sits on the northwest corner of Yonge and Eglinton, with three retail levels below the two towers. A concourse-level tunnel links the shops to Eglinton subway station, so the walk between them stays indoors. RioCan, the complex owner, moved its head office into 2300 Yonge Street in 2007.
The 2016 revitalization added seven floors to 2300 Yonge Street and five to 20 Eglinton Avenue West, re-clad both towers in curtain wall glass, and installed a publicly accessible rooftop patio and green wall. The retail concourse below holds over 65 stores and services.
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