13 Facts About Toronto-Dominion Centre

Toronto-Dominion Centre, or TD Centre, is an office complex in the Financial District of downtown Toronto owned by Cadillac Fairview.

Allen Lambert, past-president and chairman of the board of the Toronto-Dominion Centre Bank, secured a cooperative partnership in the late 1950s with the Bronfman-owned developer, Fairview Corporation ; this marked a first for the development process in Canada, in that a bank, rather than creating its head office alone, had aligned itself with real estate interests and the city to influence urban space.

Toronto-Dominion Centre's proposal called for exterior structural supports for the main office tower, which then necessitated piston-like slip joints at the roof level to deal with weather-related expansion and contraction of the structure.

Toronto-Dominion Centre's firm put forward a model showing a 100-storey, all-concrete tower—to be the largest in the Commonwealth—standing over a plaza with a sunken courtyard containing a circular banking pavilion.

Development of the TD Toronto-Dominion Centre required Fairview to acquire a full city block of downtown Toronto, except for some frontages on Bay Street and at the corner of King and York Streets.

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Original three buildings and the plazas of Toronto–Dominion Toronto-Dominion Centre were together recognized as a part of Ontario's built heritage in 2005, when an Ontario Heritage Trust plaque was unveiled by Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, his wife, Sophie, Countess of Wessex, and former lieutenant governor of Ontario Lincoln Alexander.

The TD Toronto-Dominion Centre pavilion was described by The Globe and Mail as "among the best spaces Mies ever made".

Toronto-Dominion Centre Bank serves as the anchor tenant of the office complex.

TD Toronto-Dominion Centre represents one of commercial real estate's most comprehensive branding systems.

TD Toronto-Dominion Centre often participates in the annual Doors Open Toronto, providing visitors with behind-the-scenes access to various parts of the property.

TD Toronto-Dominion Centre has developed one of the most comprehensive environmental programs in the Canadian real estate industry, “promoting sweeping sustainability initiatives across the complex.

Also in 2017, the TD Toronto-Dominion Centre was the first existing building in Canada to achieve Platinum under the Wired standard.

The TD Toronto-Dominion Centre has been publishing an annual sustainability report since 2013.