Metro Toronto Convention Centre
| Metro Toronto Convention Centre | |
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Metro Toronto Convention Centre, South Building
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| Location | 255 Front Street West Toronto, Ontario M5V 2W6 |
| Coordinates | 43°38′39″N 79°23′12″W / 43.64417°N 79.38667°W |
| Owner | Oxford Properties |
| Built | 1980s |
| Opened | October 1984 |
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Theatre seating
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1330 seats |
| Enclosed space | |
| • Total space | over 600,000 sq ft (56,000 m2) |
| • Exhibit hall floor | over 460,000 sq ft (43,000 m2) |
| • Breakout/meeting | 64 rooms |
| • Ballroom | 2 ballrooms 75,000 sq ft (7,000 m2) total |
| Public transit access | Union Station |
| Website | www.mtccc.com |
Metro Toronto Convention Centre (originally and still colloquially Metro Convention Centre, and sometimes MTCC), is a convention complex located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada along Front Street West in the former Railway Lands in Downtown Toronto. The property is today owned by Oxford Properties. The centre is operated by the Metropolitan Toronto Convention Centre Corporation, an independent agency of the Government of Ontario.
The MTCC has 600,000 square feet (56,000 m2) of space, and is home to the 1330-seat John Bassett Theatre. To the east end of the complex is the 586-room InterContinental Toronto Centre hotel (formerly Canadian National Railway's L'Hotel CN). At the west end of the complex is a 265,000 square foot Class-B office building. Within the office building is the Baton Rouge restaurant, which was formerly a Planet Hollywood from 1996 to 2006. A south building containing exhibition space is located south of the rail lines, on Bremner Boulevard.
The centre is connected to the Union Station railway and transit station through the SkyWalk, and is also accessible via the underground PATH system. The centre is also connected by the Skywalk system to the nearby Rogers Centre and large conventions or exhibitions will sometimes also use it as an additional venue.
The site was formerly federally owned Railway Lands. Prior to the early 1980s the site was home to tail end tracks and a parking lot. During the 1970s the site was part of the proposed and failed "Metro Centre" development which sought to convert the large rail lands in one large development. Development instead proceeded in parcel-by-parcel fashion, with developments such as Roy Thomson Hall, the CN Tower and the SkyDome stadium. The rail yards were transferred to new locations north and east of Toronto. The main rail lines south of the Centre were retained.
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