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| Corus Quay | |
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 View of Corus Quay under construction | |
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| Former names | First Waterfront Place |
| General information | |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Address | 25 Dockside Drive |
| Coordinates | 43°38′36″N 79°22′02″W / 43.6433°N 79.3672°W |
| Completed | 2010 |
| Owner | George Brown College and Halmont Properties Corp |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 8 |
| Floor area | 43,000 m2 (460,000 sq ft) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Diamond Schmitt Architects[1] |
| Developer | TEDCO |
| Main contractor | Aecon Buildings Architects |
| Website | |
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Corus Quay, originally named First Waterfront Place, is an eight-storey commercial office tower located on a 2.5-acre (1.0 ha) waterfront site in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The CA$160 million building is the first major development planned for the East Bayfront district, and completed construction at the foot of Jarvis Street or Jarvis Street Slip. Corus Quay is Corus Entertainment's new Toronto headquarters, consolidating its 10 locations and 1,200 employees into one site.[2] The building was designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects with interiors completed by Quadrangle Architects.[3] The building was being developed by the Toronto Economic Development Corporation (TEDCO), a city agency. Funding for the project came from TEDCO's equity, city loans and a CA$12.5 million contribution from the city contributed via Waterfront Toronto.
The building is intended to be an important public destination as well as provide a range of housing and commercial opportunities. No residential or education facilities could be built near the existing Redpath Sugar plant until TEDCO's Corus building buffered the new development from the old industrial uses. However, many aspects of the project have been mired in controversy.
Corus Quay is located near the previous site of the Waterside Sports Tennis Club, which was looking for a new location "waterside". But as neither the city nor Waterfront Toronto found an alternative site, Waterside Sports had to close down and went out of business.
In addition to Corus' business operations, the facility houses the company's television and radio operations in Toronto, including the studios of radio stations CFMJ, CFNY-FM and CILQ-FM, and the secondary studio for Global Toronto and Global's The Morning Show, in late 2016. This building has never house the main headquarters of Family Channel, but it has housed the master control room.
In 2012, Corus Quay hosted the 2012 Beyblade World Championship tournament finals in which the Japanese representative Ryo Takahashi won the championship.
- ^ "- Official Site". Archived from the original on 2009-06-03. Retrieved 2009-07-21.
- ^ "- Newswire". Archived from the original on 2009-07-10. Retrieved 2009-07-21.
- ^ "Urban Toronto Tours The New Corus Quay By Waterfront Toronto | UrbanToronto". urbantoronto.ca. Archived from the original on 2012-11-12. Retrieved 2020-04-21.