One Yonge Street (also known as the Toronto Star Building) is a 25-storey office building that serves as the headquarters of

Torstar Torstar Corporation is a Canadian mass media company which primarily publishes daily and community newspapers. In addition to the ''Toronto Star'', its flagship and namesake, Torstar also publishes daily newspapers in Hamilton, Peterborough, Ni ...

and its flagship newspaper, the ''

Toronto Star The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and par ...

''. It is 100 metres tall and built in the International style. It was built as a replacement to the

Old Toronto Star Building The Old Toronto Star Building was an Art Deco office tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The building was located at 80 King Street West and was the headquarters of the ''Toronto Star'' newspaper from 1929 until 1970. The building was demolished ...

, which was located at 80 King Street West. That building was torn down to make room for

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. 1

Yonge Street Yonge Street (; pronounced "young") is a major arterial route in the Canadian province of Ontario connecting the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto to Lake Simcoe, a gateway to the Upper Great Lakes. Once the southernmost leg of provincial H ...

is located in Queens Quay, and marks the foot of what was Highway 11, mistakenly believed to be " the longest street in the world". The building also housed the printing presses for the Toronto Star newspaper, until 1992 when a new press centre was opened in

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. The finished newspaper content is sent electronically to the plant where the plates are burnt and the paper is printed and distributed. Editorial content of the newspaper is produced by employees working on the fifth floor. It also has the headquarters of

. The office space at One Yonge Street is also leased out to a variety of other companies, including Pinnacle International, the

Liquor Control Board of Ontario The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) is a Crown corporation that retails and distributes alcoholic beverages throughout the Canadian province of Ontario. It is accountable to the Legislative Assembly through the minister of finance. It wa ...

, Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation, RL Solutions, Starbucks, Luminus Financial, a dental office, and the downtown Toronto campus of Collège Boréal."College Boreal to spend $3.8 million on new Toronto campus"
''

Sudbury Star ''The Sudbury Star'' is a Canadian daily regional newspaper published in Sudbury, Ontario. It is owned by the media company, Postmedia. It is the largest daily paper in Northeastern Ontario by circulation. History The ''Sudbury Star'' began as ...

'', January 25, 2012.

sold the building and its surrounding property to a private holding company in 2000 for $40 million, but the newspaper continued to occupy several floors of the building on a long-term lease. The ''Toronto Star'' is expected to vacate the building and move its offices to 410 Front Street West in 2022.

Redevelopment

The parking lot and podium associated with this building are part of a high-profile development known as Pinnacle One Yonge by developer Pinnacle International and designed by

Hariri Pontarini Architects Hariri Pontarini Architects is a Toronto-based architectural practice founded by Siamak Hariri and David Pontarini. Established in 1994, HPA’s first critically acclaimed project was for McKinsey & Company's Toronto headquarters, which became ...

. The project includes five skyscrapers on two parcels of land bisected by an eastern extension of Harbour Street. The tallest tower would reach 95 storeys for a total height of 307 metres, making it the tallest in Canada. The three residential towers would total 2,962 condo units, and the two commercial towers would provide 154,000 sq.m of space.

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Redevelopment

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