I seem to remember a considerable amount of enthusiasm hereabouts for this project, a few years back. I recall posting that it would have been far better if someone like Will Alsop, whose OCAD was then going up a few blocks away, had been able to bring some creativity to this project ... only to be dismissed with a "Meh, it's only commercial" reply - as if commercial buildings should exist in a design free zone.
In the 1960's Yonge and Dundas was home to several jazz and rock clubs where people like Ronnie Hawkins and Louis Armstrong played. One was the Brown Derby, which had become San Francisco's or something by the time I was at OCA in the early 1970's, and was located on the Metropolis site.