Coca Cola to leave Thorncliffe Park

Coca Cola is slated to depart its long-time premises at 42 Overlea Blvd later this year or early next. A decision has been taken to house the company in a three-storey addition to the Toronto Sun building on King Street East. The Thorncliffe neighbourhood will no doubt be sorry to see Coke leave. The future of its present home, built by the company is 1965, is unknown. The operation there consists of sales and administration only, as the bottling side of the operation migrated to Brampton a decade ago. Coke is calling this change a “Live Positively” move. It apparently thinks life will be more vibrant downtown. It will, says Coke, permit employees to walk, bicycle or take public transportation to work.