page_title: Bay Adelaide Centre
section_title: Current development scheme
hierarchical_section_title: Bay Adelaide Centre / History / Current development scheme
caption_attribution_description: English: Bay Adelaide East under construction in July 2013. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
context_page_description: The Bay Adelaide Centre is an office complex in the Financial District of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The first phase, a 51-storey skyscraper known as Bay Adelaide West, was completed in July 2009. The second phase, the 44-storey Bay Adelaide East, was completed in October 2016. A third tower, Bay Adelaide North, is planned.
context_section_description: In October 2005, plans were filed with the City of Toronto to develop the property. An information sign (notice to amend the by law regulating zoning) was placed on Bay St. between 347 Bay and 355 Bay, both also Brookfield properties. The notice, in short, informed the public that three mixed-use high-rise towers surrounding an urban plaza will be built.  The towers were then planned to vary in size from 43 to 50 storeys and contain an aggregate density of 240,396 square metres (2,587,600 sq ft).  Brookfield Properties had signed KPMG and Goodmans as anchor tenants for the first tower, Bay Adelaide West, with Fasken Martineau and Heenan Blaikie also taking up residence in the building.
  In June 2006, both buildings on Bay Street attached to this property were emptied of tenants and by December 11, 2006, both buildings had been taken down, with the north and west facades of the National Building (347 Bay) being removed for incorporation into the new buildings. The National Building had only recently been designated a heritage building under the Ontario Heritage Act (Part IV). By December 2006, dismantling of the service shaft stump was complete.  Construction of the PATH tunnel north from Scotia Plaza through the Bay Adelaide Centre started in fall 2007. Completion of this section closed the last remaining gap in the north-south route through PATH that parallels Yonge Street, thus eliminating the need to double back from Bay Street to get between buildings located on the eastern edge of PATH.
  Bay Adelaide West was completed in 2009 at 51 storeys.  It played a primary role in the thriller Devil by M. Night Shyamalan, which was released on September 17, 2010.  It is also featured extensively on TV show Suits, being the fictional head office of the law firm Pearson Specter Litt.
  In June 2012, Brookfield announced that it planned to commence construction of Bay Adelaide East at 44 storeys and 91,045 square metres (980,000 sq ft), with Deloitte as the anchor tenant.
  In August 2018, Brookfield announced that it planned to commence construction of Bay Adelaide North at 32 storeys and 76,180 square metres (820,000 sq ft), with Scotiabank as the anchor tenant. The North tower will complete the three-million-square-foot Bay Adelaide Centre campus.
caption: Excavation for Bay Adelaide East in July 2013
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