“One of the best remaining examples in Toronto of a suburban corporate headquarters . . . a new and important building type during the postwar period”.

Robert Moffatt, editor, “Toronto Modern” quoted in the Toronto Star, July 4, 2012

Thanks to pressure on the City by ACO Toronto and local heritage activists, developer of the Costco warehouse project hired heritage architect (and ACO Past-President Chris Borgal) as a design consultant. Where, at most, only the granite “bottle-bottom” wall was to remain, the entire façade of the Coca Cola building is now the façade of the offices of the warehouse. Regrettably, the Coca Cola logo on the granite wall and a towering sculpture of stacked coke bottles by Walter Yarwood have been removed but restoration of the facade is meticulous. This incorporation of a heritage building into one of their warehouse stores is a first for Costco in North America.