Toronto - Central Business District

A vast number of commercial, financial and professional institutions and services together with several government agencies are concentrated in Toronto's Central Business District (CBD), easily recognized by its towering skyscrapers. Every weekday a multitude of bankers, stockbrokers, insurance and property agents, lawyers and business people join with an army of civil servants to squeeze themselves into this relatively small downtown area. Their reinforced concrete office blocks, encased - some attractively, some rather less so - in glass and eloxal, bear fine sounding names such as the Sun Life Center (28 stores), Commerce Court (57 stores), the Toronto Dominion Center (designed by Mies van der Rohe and others) and First Canadian Plaza