Today home to a church or two, this buff brick beauty on Howard Ave just north of Tecumseh Rd., was built around 1938 as a Coca-Cola Bottling Plant.
The building was designed by the Toronto Architectural Firm of Chapman & Oxley. Some of their more notable works include the Princess Gate at the CNE in downtown Toronto as well as the original wing of the Royal Ontario Museum.
A neat little building and one of the ones that I think tends to get overlooked in the city. Glad a new use was found for it, so often these types of buildings have no other use, and once they close, the bulldozers move in…
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The 7up & Giant Cola, Vernors operation where bought by Pepsi Cola that also bought Madels in Essex.Pepsi Cola bought out all there independent bottlers about the same time they got control of 7up in Canada. Madells in Essex is just a wharehouse ditribution center, no more bottling, all done in London and Toronto.
my old neighbour used to work at the crush plant at bruce and tecumseh he painted his car with that bright orange that their trucks were painted in...and David why does anybody every leave this miserable burg??