Reviving Maple Leaf Gardens

Toronto’s fabled Maple Leaf Gardens—previously home to major-league hockey, big-name concerts, boxing and other sporting events—recently emerged from a decade of disuse. Its new anchor tenant was not a sports team or event management company, but instead Loblaws, a grocery retail chain with stores across Ontario and Quebec.

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Remaking Mark’s Work Wearhouse

Mark’s, a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian Tire, is renovating and redesigning its clothing stores across Canada. Formerly known as Mark’s Work Wearhouse, the retail chain is incorporating digital signage into its new shopping environments in multiple forms, including both passive and interactive displays.

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Rezoning Pearson airport

At the end of January 2012, Toronto Pearson International Airport went ‘zonal,’ implementing a new, uniform alphanumeric system for naming all flight gate lounges throughout Terminals 1 and 3 (T1 and T3). The renumbering project also entailed the need to retrofit and replace corresponding signs facing airline passengers in both terminals.

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Showtime for TIFF Bell Lightbox

It took almost 40 years to establish a dedicated venue in Toronto for world-class cinema. What began in 1976 as the Festival of Festivals and was later renamed the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) finally found a permanent home in late 2010 when TIFF Bell Lightbox opened at the corner of King and John Streets.

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Reinventing the tourism centre

A typical tourist information centre usually welcomes visitors with a non-descript room, some photos on the wall, an outdated map, a rack of randomly organized pamphlets, a take-away guide listing some local businesses and a small staff on-hand to answer questions.

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Restoring lustre to the Hershey Centre

One of the most visible landmarks in Mississauga, Ont., is the bright red main identification sign for the Hershey Centre, a sports and entertainment facility located next to Highway 403 and near Highway 401. The 5,500-seat multipurpose arena is home to a variety of events, including Mississauga St. Michael’s Majors junior hockey games, festivals and concerts.

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