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cutine: artist's drawing of an Aura condo suite College Park condo set to top Eaton’s vision Stephen Weir, for Metro Canada 13 November 2008 01:31 (The subway newspaper Metro - owned in part by the Star - picked up my College Park story from the Star, edited and added a couple of sidebars that they found on this website.) The article had two pictures. College Park is on the upswing of a roller-coaster ride of boom, bust and boom all over again. A revitalized Eaton’s College Park building, with its iconic, five-star Carlu Hall, has reignited an economic fascination for one of downtown Toronto’s most prestigious and historic blocks, bounded by College, Gerrard, Bay and Yonge streets. Canderel Stoneridge is poised to begin construction of Aura, a 75-storey condominium tower just south of College Park at the corner of Yonge and Gerrard. The residential skyscraper will cover the last street level parking lot along Yonge Street downtown. It will create a vertical community of close to

On Saturday November 8th, the Toronto Star ran a major feature I wrote about the downtown Toronto city block of College Park. The 3-page story appeared on the cover of the Condo section. The actual article appears above (scroll up) Historian, author and broadcaster Mike Filey remembers the great Eaton College Park store • It is part of the city’s history, it is part of our fabric • My Dad worked there … in the men’s wear. That is where my mother met him • Building showed the status of the Eaton firm, to be able to build that big during the Depression. • “flagship of the Eaton Empire”, but soil conditions and the Depression caused the company to scale back the size of the building • A Grey Coach bus would take shoppers from the Queen Street Eaton’s to College Park. They even had their own transit ticket. • I used to get my car serviced at the BA Gas Station at Eaton College Park’s Automotive Centre off Hayter Street • Building was designed by the same firm that designed Maple Leaf