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Simcoe Place

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Type
  
Office, Retail

Management
  
Cadillac Fairview

Floor count
  
33

Floors
  
33

Province
  
Ontario

Architect
  
Carlos Ott

Completed
  
1995

Roof
  
140 m (460 ft)

Height
  
148 m

Opened
  
1995

Owner
  
Cadillac Fairview

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Location
  
200 Front Street West Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Similar
  
RBC Centre, Royal Bank Plaza, Toronto‑Dominion Centre, TD Tower, Brookfield Place

Simcoe Place is an office building and shopping centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The tower 148 metres (486 feet) with 33 floors. It was completed by architects Carlos A Ott and NORR in 1995. The late-Modernist building was built by developer Cadillac Fairview. It was the only major office tower built in Toronto during the mid-1990s, a period between the early decade real estate bubble and the building boom of the 21st century.

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Map of Simcoe Place, 200 Front St W, Toronto, ON M5V 3K2, Canada

As a special project The Globe and Mail reporter Mary Gooderham spent two years covering the construction, writing 110 columns on the subject. These were later compiled into a book titled A Building Goes Up: The Making of a Skyscraper.

It is the head office for Workplace Safety & Insurance Board.

Dover traction parking elevator at simcoe place


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Simcoe Place Wikipedia