Media Advisory - Final beam to be set atop Toronto's Bay Adelaide Centre

    Mayor David Miller and construction teams to leave their mark at topping-
    off ceremony

    TORONTO, Sept. 19 /CNW/ - On Tuesday, September 23, Brookfield Properties
Corporation president and CEO Ric Clark will be joined by Toronto Mayor
David Miller, guests and over 300 of the men and women who helped construct
Toronto's Bay Adelaide Centre, to celebrate the official topping off of the
city's newest commercial tower.
    Built to a LEED Gold Standard, Bay Adelaide Centre is the first
significant development in Toronto's financial core since Brookfield Place
(formerly BCE Place) was completed in 1992.
    All guests will be invited to sign a 10 metre-long gold-plated steel
beam, which will be set into place as a symbol of the building reaching its
highest structural point.

    WHAT:     TOPPING-OFF CEREMONY OF BAY ADELAIDE CENTRE

    WHERE:    TEMPERANCE STREET - USE BAY STREET ENTRANCE
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              Temperance Street will be closed between Yonge and Bay Streets
              North side of Bay Adelaide Centre

    WHO:      Ric Clark, president and CEO, Brookfield Properties Corporation
              Toronto Mayor David Miller
              Over 300 of the men and women who helped build the Bay Adelaide
              Centre

    WHEN:     Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 1:30 PM

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    TIME                                 AGENDA/PHOTO OPS
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    1:30 - 2:00 PM     Signing of the topping-off beam by the men and women
                       who built Bay Adelaide Centre
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    2:15 PM            Toronto Mayor David Miller and Ric Clark, president
                       and CEO, Brookfield Properties Corporation, sign the
                       topping-off beam; joined by representatives of Bay
                       Adelaide Centre's construction teams
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    2:30 PM            Remarks by Ric Clark, president and CEO, Brookfield
                       Properties Corporation and Toronto Mayor David Miller
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    2:40 PM            Toronto Mayor David Miller to signal the raising of
                       the topping-off beam
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    2:45 PM            The topping-off beam is hoisted 51 storeys and set
                       atop Bay Adelaide Centre West Tower
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