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This is what a Blue & Green Renaissance looks like: reclaiming valuable urban land from parking lots and returning it to communities, nature, and everyday life.
This skyscraper would have stood at around 36-storeys (hard to fully tell with this photo) at the northwest corner of King and Yonge, making it a complete intersection of early high-rises. It was designed by architect Eustace G. Bird, who also helped design the Royal Bank Building, directly across the street on Yonge, 10 years earlier. It would have been the tallest tower in Toronto upon its completion, seemingly around the height of Commerce Court North. The proposal was approved and plans were already in place to demolish the buildings on the property to make way for construction. However, the skyscraper was cancelled a year later. Unfortunately, like other proposals of the era, it's likely the financing for the project was never fully fulfilled, and when the Great Depression rolled in a few years later, any hope of a pre-war tower in this spot died completely.