The central hub of downtown Toronto, Yonge-Dundas is a public square situated at the south-east corner of the intersection of Yonge Street and Dundas Street East across from the Toronto Eaton Centre. The site is bordered on the north by Dundas Street, on the east by Victoria Street, on the west by Yonge Street, and on the south by a former street named Dundas Square. In 1998, as part of the Yonge Street Regeneration Project, Toronto City Council approved the expropriation and demolition of the buildings on the site known today as Yonge-Dundas Square. Construction took five years from 1998 to 2002. Designed by Brown + Storey Architects, the square was intended as a new public space in Toronto. Unlike Nathan Phillips Square, Yonge-Dundas Square
