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Lilani Group, the company that owns the property, filed a demolition request with
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335 Yonge Street housed hotels from 1888, under different owners, to sometime in the 1970s. In the 1960s, it was known as the Edison Hotel and was a major live music venue in Yonge Street's booming Rock n' Roll culture. After the building stopped functioning as a hotel portions were leased by a
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Steps away from the collapsed structure at the corner of Yonge and Gould
Streets, police officers held up grainy images captured by a surveillance camera of a lone figure approaching the abandoned building just before a six-alarm fire broke out early Monday
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