Toronto Star building to be demolished

1 Yonge Toronto Star Building 2017, By Arild Vågen - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63354645

1 Yonge was the first address on Toronto's main street. The Toronto Star was published from there from 1971 until it moved in 2022. It marked how important newspapers used to be. I'd rush in with film, past the blown up copies of front pages from years gone by, one with bank robber Eddie Boyd's conviction in the 50s with a bible verse, "The way of the transgressors is hard." beside it, and a plaque dedicated to a reporter who died flying into a hurricane, and ride a slow elevator up to the editorial floor. It was supposed made slow by the publisher's wife's request. The building will be demolished and replaced with a 105 storey tower, part of a three tower complex, one of which has already been completed, called Pinnacle One Yonge. It seems like three smaller towers are or were planned to go on the site as well in this older article, but this article says only two

Me outside 1 Yonge, c. 1994. The street begins at Lake Ontario. 

Captain John's Harbour Boat Restaurant , a large boat that was converted into a restaurant and permanently moored was just behind the building.

The larger towers are supposed to be primarily residential with a hotel in one. This could be a good thing as that part of Toronto was dead after 5 pm since it was mostly offices even though the Harbourfront attractions are an easy walk.

An earlier Toronto Star building was at 80 King Street West, until it was demolished in 1972. Joe Shuster, original artist and co-creator of Superman, said he named the paper where Clark Kent worked, originally called the Daily Star, after the Toronto Daily Star, which he sold as a paperboy in Toronto, and is thought to have used the building as a model, but by the time Shuster left Toronto, the building hadn't been built yet. Smithsonian Magazine