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Originally Posted by Jeff
With BMO moving out of their grand banking hall and now Bell (let's give up on the MTS part already), I think this building may be next in line for a grand re-imagining. Might take awhile as Artis is embroiled in their massive project across the street, but the SE corner is defintely the laggard of Portage and Main right now.
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It has been for some time. BMO moved out of the tower sometime in the mid/late 90s and it was fairly empty for quite some time before MTS moved its HQ there from Polo Park in 2000. When MTS bought the building in 2003 I think there was some optimism about what might happen next. In the end they didn't do much, but now with BMO putting the banking hall up for sale and 333 Main no longer the MTS beehive it once was, it sort of feels like that corner has gone back to 1998 again... it just hasn't been able to live up to its potential yet.