APRIL 2019 | BUSINESS ELITE CANADA 3
F
ormer Maclean-Hunter Build-
ing is the Tallest Architectural
Heritage Retention in North
America
The CN Tower isn’t the only record-
setting building in Toronto. In March,
2019, Davport Inc. announced it will
undertake North America’s
tallest architectural heritage
retention development when
it renovated the United Build-
ing on the northeast corner of
University Avenue and Dundas
Street West.
The United Building will evolve
to a 55-storey high rise which
will highlight the restored heri-
tage structure of the storied
Maclean Publishing Company/
Maclean-Hunter Building at 481 Univer-
sity Avenue, with commercial and retail
space from the ground floor to the 10th
floor and new residences above the
historic structure.
Davpart Inc. President and CEO David
Hofstedter says, “From 1910 to the 1980s,
481 was the location of Maclean Publish-
ing and later Maclean-Hunter with several
