This building was purposely for the professional printing firm Silvano Colour Lab a company that was very big in the professional photo printing for decades. 1st in a very similar looking building just across the street from this building which the business occupied until its closing.
Silvano Venuto and John Sacilotto created a colour processing company in Toronto’s west end just south of Roger Rd. On Old Weston Rd. Skilled engineers they built their own processing machinery, modified equipment all to provide on of the best printing services available.
Silvano Color Labs moved forward with all the changes taking place in their industry for decades, well just over 5 decades.. The technological sweep of digital imaging photography and new forms of sharing photos such as email and online photo services greatly changed the nature of the industry, yet this great company stayed open until February 3, 2012.
This blogger with really miss their SILVANO EASY CROP MASKS.
from their website – now down.
We’ve been serving the Photofinishing Needs of Wedding/Social, School, Sports and Industrial/Commercial Photographers, Wedding Couples and Photo Consumers since 1955. We offer a full range of FILM (including C-41, E-6 and B&W) and DIGITAL PHOTO IMAGING services. We also offer Giclée printing and Press Services. You can order on-line through our S.O.S. Order System or our FTP Server. Please visit our Showroom for a large variety of Albums, Scrapbooks, CD/DVD Holders, Folders, Easels, Mounts, Memory Mates, Folios and Photo Packaging. We are based in Toronto Ontario Canada.
PDF for their last downloadable price list, its more than price-list though, rather a text and pictorial model of how the professional printing business operated.
image from: http://www.phsc.ca/journal/NEWSSHEET201202FINAL.pdf
The Building.
http://www.metcomrealty.com/pdfs/Weston_Rd_355_Sale_Feb_10.pdf
http://www.metcomrealty.com/pdfs/Weston_Rd_355_Sale_Feb_10.pdf
Building Area: 84,000 sq ft (above grade + 28,000 sq ft lower level)
Typical Floor: 28,000 sq ft (approximately)
Total Area: 56,628 sq ft – 1.8 acres (mpac)
Frontage: 240.75‘
Depth: 235.2’
T.M.I.: $2.91/ sq ft (2009)
Shipping: 1 X truck level, 5 X drive-in
Zoning: E – General Employment
Elevators: 1 X Freight, 2 X Passenger
Parking: +/-150 surface
List Price: $7,950,000.00 – $94.64/ sq ft
This image from sales flyer of http://www.metcomrealty.com/ click image to visit their site
VENDOR: Silvano and Celestina Investments.
BUILDING AREA: 28,000 sq.ft. – Lower level
28,000 sq.ft. – First floor
28,000 sq.ft – Second Floor
28,000 sq.ft. – Third Floor
112,000 sq.ft. – Total Building area
LOT DIMENSIONS: 240.75’ Frontage x 235.2’ Depth
LOT AREA: 56,628 square feet – 1.8 acres (As per MPAC)
ZONING: “E – General Employment” – allowing a variety of industrial uses, some commercial as well as office uses subject
to municipal approval.
BUILDING: Brick veneer exterior, pored concrete and I-Beam construction;
Triple thermal pane window units;
Flat tar and gravel roof;
27.7 kilo-volts Vendor owned electrical sub-station;
15 X 5/10 ton HVAC Units;
Steel, rebar and poured concrete floors,.
400 sq ft Bay size;
13’ Clear Height; and,
1 X truck level – 5 X drive in shipping doors.
ADJACENT LAND USES: To the north: Public Self-Storage facility;
To the south: Monument manufacturing and Show-Room;
To the east: CN/CP and GO Railway corridor; and
To the west: Residential dwellings and Commercial use.
Silvano 2011 website image.
click image for full size image of the reports cover.
