The former footprint of a long-abandoned TTC bus terminal is empty after almost a decade of the building.
The original Bustoninal of the Eglinton Station was built in 1954 as a surface connection center for the then northern term of the first U -Bahn line from Toronto. It was operated on for 50 years before a modern replacement was opened in the immediate south in 2004 and was left for another 12 years.
In the past few weeks, this location has been freed from construction equipment, which signaled the long -awaited end of an apparently cursed transit project that Midtown Toronto has plagued for over a decade.
The construction of the Crosstown LRT began in summer 2011, but it was only in mid -2016 that the long -abandoned bus terminal was cleared as an extraction shaft for two of the four tunnel boring machines (TBM), which the underground sections of the line carved.
The Western Pair TBMS was launched in 2012 from a similar starting wave business in the Keelesdale Park and carved 10 kilometers of twiling tunnels to the west of the Yonge Street so far.
Years after completing the tunneling for the first phase of the line in 2016, the great moment of the location arrived in 2020 when the TBMS were pulled out of the ground in parts of under the ground over an extraction wave at the former bus terminal.
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A full five years after the milestone (and in the year in which the Crosstown was originally opened), the former bus terminal status became
But before the TBMs were pulled out of the newly formed tunnels and years before the location release that was just taking place, the plans were already in motion to develop the former bus terminal location with a new development with a high density.
Oxford Properties and CT Reit presented the city of Toronto a proposal at the end of 2020 to renovate the 9.2 hectare property Canada Square on the southwestern corner of Yonge and Eginton with a mixed complex with five durators.
These plans performed with an updated program at the end of 2022, which separated from a world -famous architecture company and instead decided to work with local talent. The current proposal for the location requires towers of 65 floors and about 2,900 residential units.