Hudson Bay Centre
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Hudson Bay Centre is an international style office skyscraper in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. .
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[edit] History
Completed in 1974, it stands at 35 floors at 135m in height. The former Bay flagship store still anchors the site. Brookfield Properties owns and operates the centre located in the heart of the city at the intersection of Bloor and Yonge also known as the business and pleasure area of midtown Toronto.
[edit] About
The Hudson's Bay Centre comprises a 535,000 square foot office tower at 2 Bloor Street East at the corner of Yonge & Bloor. Along with The Bay department store, the complex includes the Marriott Hotel, RBC Royal Bank, apartments, condominiums, and an extensive retail concourse with over 45 specialty shops, boutiques, services and eateries . The building is connected to the Bloor-Yonge subway station, the TTC's major east-west transfer point.
The centre has 1,200 spots for cars its underground and aboveground Parking. The building has multiple entrances located on Yonge, Bloor Streets, Park Road and Asquith Avenue. It is surrounded by several parks and Bloor-Yorkville shopping.
[edit] Criticism
John Bentley Mays has called it "midtown's biggest architectural monstrosity[1]"