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Hudson's Bay Queen Street | |
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Former names |
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General information | |
Architectural style | Neo-Romanesque |
Address | 176 Yonge Street Toronto, Ontario M5C 2L7 |
Coordinates | 43°39′07″N 79°22′46″W / 43.65194°N 79.37944°W |
Current tenants |
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Named for | Robert Simpson (original name) |
Opened | 1895 |
Renovated | 1907, 1923, 1929, 2014–2016 |
Owner | Cadillac Fairview (since 2014) |
Design and construction | |
Architecture firm | Burke 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.