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AKA: Pacific Center Office and Commercial Complex, Vancouver, BC
Structure Type: built works - settlements - cities
Designers: Gruen, Victor, Associates, Architecture / Planning / Engineering (firm); Victor David Gruen (architect)
Dates: constructed 1969-1976
An urban renewal plan developed by public agencies and a investment group consisting of Toronto-Dominion Bank, T. Eaton Company, and CEMP Investments, Ltd.; this groups planned the development of Blocks 42 and 52 of the downtown; the latter block was to include a Toronto-Dominion Bank high-rise, an Eaton's Department Store, and a shopping concourse that was linked to another shopping concourse in Block 42; Block 42 also was designed to have two office buildings, a Four Seasons Hotel, and an underground parking garage for 2,500 automobiles; Gruen worked on this plan with the Canadian architects McCarter, Nairne, and Partners of Vancouver, BC, who served as Associated Architects for the Pacific Centre.
PCAD id: 3420
