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Kodak building 9 was the employee recreation building at Kodak's Kodak Mount Dennis campus in what is now Toronto, Ontario.[1] When Kodak closed the campus in 2006 it was the only building that was not demolished.[2] Subsequently, the building was occupied by squatters and has been heavily vandalized.[3]
The campus's cafeteria was in the building.[3] Employees attended movie nights there. There were rooms were they could play ping pong and other games.
The campus was acquired by Metrolinx, Ontario's agency for overseeing public transit in the Greater Toronto Area, and will have a GO station built on it, the station that marked the western terminus of the Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Line, and its associated 15 bay bus terminal.[3] Plans for the transit hub all include making use of the refurbished building 9.[1] In May 2013 MetroLinx agreed to take in community input in the uses of the property.[4][5]
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Rachel Mendleson (2013-10-02). "Crosstown LRT project reveals — and respects — Eglinton's history". TorontoStar. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
Building 9, the former Kodak employee building, is the last remnant of Kodak Heights. The derelict building will become the "heart" of Mount Dennis station.
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Rick McGinnis (2009-07-03). "The End of Kodachrome and the Death of Kodak Heights". Blog TO. Archived from the original on 2013-09-16.
I understand completely why Kodak, eager to avoid the fate of its onetime rival, Polaroid, had to make drastic decisions such as the one to close Kodak Heights. I can also understand why local residents and politicians are pressuring Metrus Properties to try and replace the industrial jobs the area has lost, instead of filling the Kodak lands with big box retail stores. I can even understand why bored local kids are trashing Building 9 - frankly, I might have been one of them if this had happened 30 years ago. What I can't understand is how no one can see the value of Building 9, even if just as a reminder of when even blue collar life had its touches of elegance, but I'm sure my dismay is largely a personal reaction to what seems like the erasure of all that history, much of it my own.
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"Kodak's Building 9 was once employee hub of Toronto complex" (in English). Toronto Sun. 2013-06-22. Archived from the original on 2013-09-16. Retrieved August 2013.
In 2013, the last remaining building became home to squatters, teenage graffiti artists, and the property of Metrolinx, the government organization that oversees public transportation in the GTA.
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Patty Winsa (2013-05-08). "Weston Mount Dennis residents will have input into Crosstown LRT storage site". Archived from the original on 2014-01-22. Retrieved 2014-03-25.
Metrolinx has done an about face and will now allow community input into how other developments can be incorporated into the Crosstown's storage and vehicle maintenance site.
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Patty Winsa (2013-05-08). "Weston-Mount Dennis residents want Metrolinx to preserve last Kodak building". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 2014-01-22. Retrieved 2014-03-25.
"Mount Dennis is a sort of company town originally with Kodak as the major employer. A lot of people have a strong emotional attachment to it," said Simon Chamberlain, a community activist. "With Kodak gone, this is the one bit of legacy that is left. And it's one of the few significant historical buildings in the community."
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