The EY Tower (formerly known as the Ernst & Young Tower and 100 Adelaide Street West) is a

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, Ontario, Canada at 100 Adelaide Street West. The building was designed by

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and

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Original site

At its 1928 opening, 100 Adelaide Street West, was the Concourse Building which was a 14-story

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structure. The building tenant was the Toronto Industrial Commission, which promoted the city as a hub of finance and business in Ontario. The building was famous for its mosaics by

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member J.E.H. MacDonald. The Concourse was designed by the firm of Baldwin and Greene.

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took control of the building in 1998 and released plans to replace the Concourse Building with a new tower. The Concourse's defenders tried to find a buyer for the building, though Oxford refused to sell the site. The decision to demolish the Concourse Building was controversial, but the Toronto and East York community councils ultimately voted in favor of the demolition in May 2000, with a vote of 38 to 12. File:EY Tower, Toronto, Ontario (29968697106).jpg, Art Deco details of the 1928 Concourse Building. Facades were incorporated in the new glass tower project. 2016 Toronto Concourse Building 2010.jpg, Entrance to the Concourse Building. 2010

New building

Oxford released plans for the new building on 17 June 2013. The new proposal also announced that the building would be renamed from 100 Adelaide Street West, the street address of the site, to

Ernst & Young Ernst & Young Global Limited, trade name EY, is a multinational professional services partnership headquartered in London, England. EY is one of the largest professional services networks in the world. Along with Deloitte, KPMG and Pricewat ...

Tower. Ernst and Young, the primary tenant of the new building, will be leasing of office space. EY Tower is high, with 42 floors and a total area of . The base of the new tower includes the south and east walls of the original Concourse Building and is integrated into the PATH as part of Oxford's Richmond-Adelaide Centre. The main tenants of the building are

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and

TMX Group TMX Group Limited is a Canadian financial services company that operates equities, fixed income, derivatives, and energy markets exchanges. The company provides services encompassing listings, trading, clearing, settling and depository facili ...

. In addition to a new public space and renovated entrance through the Concourse Building, the tower also features a outdoor terrace on the 14th floor. The building is

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certified. The building was completed in 2017.

Construction

After many stages of planning, the tower's construction started in July 2014. The Tower was

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in June 2016 and opened in May 2017.

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New building

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