| Metropolis |
 | | Mall facts and statistics | | | Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | | Opening date | Spring 2008 (tentative) | | Developer | PenEquity | | Management | PenEquity | | Owner | PenEquity | | No. of stores and services | n/a | | No. of anchor tenants | 4 | | Total retail floor area | 360,000 ft² (33,444 m²) | | Parking | n/a | | No. of floors | 13 (10 above ground & 3 concourses) | | Website | http://www.metropolis.ca | Metropolis is a notoriously delayed retail and entertainment complex on the north-east corner of Yonge and Dundas streets in Toronto. The unfinished project sits on a large parcel of prime land in the city's commercial core, on the north side of Dundas Square. The project was approved in 1998 and construction hording went up soon after, with hopes of seeing the building open in 2000. Construction, however, only began in 2003 and has suffered shutdowns and delays; its developer, Pen Equity, now claims the project will be finished in spring 2008. The structural steel for the project, fabricated by Walters Inc. of Hamilton (the same company who completed the steel at Libeskind's ROM, also erected by Ironworkers Local 721), was completed November 2006. Image File history File linksMetadata Metropolis-Logo. ...
Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Official languages None Flower White Trillium Tree Eastern White Pine Bird Common Loon Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Parliamentary representation - House seats - Senate seats 106 24 Area Total...
A sign for Yonge Street at the intersection with Maitland Street. ...
Dundas Square. ...
Renderings of the project depict a four-story building topped by an imposing advertising scaffold - curvelinear and several stories high itself - facing the Square.
The project is being built around and over an existing parking garage belonging to the adjacent Ryerson University; in exchange for the air rights to build over its land, Ryerson will gain use of the AMC theatres as classrooms during daytime hours. Ryerson University is a publicly funded post-secondary education institution located in the heart of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...
This project is being developed by the same company, Pen Equity, that developed the Entertainment Centrum retail centres. Entertainment Centrum refers to entertainment complexes in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). ...
Anchors
 Building under construction. (Taken November 5th, 2006) All tenants are subject to change as the complex does not officially open until spring 2008. DisneyQuest and Virgin Megastore were originally two of the anchor tenants, but later withdrew from the project. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 620 KB) i took this myself I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 620 KB) i took this myself I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ...
DisneyQuest is an indoor interactive theme park located in Downtown Disney at the Walt Disney World Resort. ...
Virgin Megastores is a chain of record shops scattered throughout the world, established by Richard Branson. ...
- Adidas Sport Performance Store - Adidas will open its store directly on the corner of Yonge & Dundas. The store will feature Adidas products such as footwear and accesories relating to sports.
- AMC Theatres, - AMC will anchor the entertainment portion of Metropolis with a 24 screen theatre. The AMC 24 located in Metroplolis is set to be a flagship of its Canadian operations.
- Future Shop - Future Shop is set to launch its most up-to-date and technologically advanced store, of the over 110 its currently operates coast to coast.
- Shoppers Drug Mart - This anchor, located below street level, will operate in a 11,300 square foot store.
Adidas AG is a German sports apparel manufacturer, part of the Adidas Group, which is the second largest sportswear manufacturer worldwide. ...
A 16-screen AMC Theatres multiplex in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles, California. ...
Future Shop is a Canadian electronics retailer. ...
Shoppers Drug Mart logo Shoppers Drug Mart Corporation TSX: SC is Canadas largest pharmacy chain with almost 1000 stores operating under the names Shoppers Drug Mart across Canada (outside of Quebec) and Pharmaprix in Quebec. ...
Effect on Local Economy and Tourism Metropolis is the flag ship commercial development in Toronto's young but bustling Dundas Square. Speculators believe Metropolis will likely stir new commercial and tourist growth in the Toronto downtown area. The growth of commercial prospertity in other more mature commercial districts such as New Yorks Times Square, Shanghai's Nanjing Road and Tokyo's Shibuya have served as the inspiration and are the usually the basis of these claims. Dundas Square. ...
Times Square For other uses, see Times Square (disambiguation) Times Square is the name given to a principal intersection, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue, and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets in the New York City borough of Manhattan. ...
Nanjing Road is one of the worlds busiest shopping streets. ...
Shibuya Crossing, with Shibuya 109 in the background Shibuya ) is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. ...
Downtown Toronto already have high profile, major shopping districts, particularly the surronding indoor Eaton Centre mall, the Yorkville area, and parts of Queen Street West. However, Metropolis is trying to stir development of a different type of shopping area, one that is dominated by billboards and video screens as well as high density buildings in a outdoor shopping area similar to Times Square in New York City. Interior of the Toronto Eaton Centre, looking south. ...
Yorkville is one of Toronto, Ontario, Canadas most affluent neighbourhoods. ...
Queen Street West refers to both a major east-west downtown street and a series of neighbourhoods or commercial districts within the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...
Times Square For other uses, see Times Square (disambiguation) Times Square is the name given to a principal intersection, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue, and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets in the New York City borough of Manhattan. ...
Retailers
Stores
Restaurants/Food Court Baskin-Robbins is a chain of ice cream parlors founded by Burton Baskin and Irvine Robbins in 1945 in Glendale, California. ...
Cinnabon is a chain of American baked goods stores and kiosks formerly owned by AFC Enterprises, and, as of 2004, owned by FOCUS Brands, Inc. ...
Johnny Rockets logo Original Johnny Rockets location on Melrose Ave. ...
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For other meanings of the name Starbuck, see Starbuck. ...
Tim Hortons [2] (TSX: THI, NYSE: THI) is a fast food restaurant chain founded in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada with locations in Canada and the eastern United States. ...
Wolfgang Johann Puck (born Wolfgang Johann Topfschnig on January 8, 1949) is an Austrian-American celebrity chef, restaurateur, and businessman based in Los Angeles, California. ...
Construction Gallery Exterior shot from the patio of the now-closed Olympic Spirit Toronto, June, 30, 2006 Image File history File links Metropolis-06-03-2006. ...
Olympic Spirit Toronto, the worlds first and only permanent entertainment complex themed around the Olympic Games, opened on August 21, 2004. ...
| Exterior shot from Yonge Street, December 4, 2006 Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2816x2112, 2070 KB) Picture taken from Yonge Street on December 4, 2006 Stu1610 00:43, 17 December 2006 (UTC) I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of...
A sign for Yonge Street at the intersection with Maitland Street. ...
| Exterior shot taken from Dundas Square, December 4, 2006 Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2816x2112, 2093 KB) Picture taken from Dundas Square on December 4, 2006 Stu1610 00:40, 17 December 2006 (UTC) I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of...
Dundas Square. ...
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