Hudson's Bay Queen Street

Hudson's Bay Queen Street
Exterior of Hudson's Bay Queen Street (2021)
Map
Former names
  • Simpson's Department Store
  • The Bay Queen Street
General information
Architectural styleNeo-Romanesque
Address176 Yonge Street
Toronto, Ontario
M5C 2L7
Coordinates43°39′07″N 79°22′46″W / 43.65194°N 79.37944°W / 43.65194; -79.37944
Current tenants
Named forRobert Simpson (original name)
Opened1895
Renovated1907, 1923, 1929, 2014–2016
OwnerCadillac Fairview (since 2014)
Design and construction
Architecture firmBurke and Horwood
Website
Hudson's Bay Queen Street

Hudson's Bay Queen Street is a building complex on the southwest corner of Yonge Street and Queen Street West in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was originally named the Simpson's Department Store, and operated as the flagship store of the Simpsons department store chain from 1895–1991. It became a flagship store of its successor, The Bay, in 1991 (rebranded to Hudson's Bay in 2013). The building was retrofitted to house the first Saks Fifth Avenue department store in Canada in 2016.

The building is the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company, which owns both department store chains. The company sold the building to Cadillac Fairview in 2014 and maintains a leaseback agreement with the company through at least 2039. Through this agreement, the building is part of the CF-owned Toronto Eaton Centre, although a skybridge had already connected the adjacent properties since the 1970s.