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Toronto Behind the Boarding: Bunge Canada
The demolition signs around part of Toronto's Junction foretell the imminent doom of the Bunge industrial complex. The company produced a variety of edible food oils, and the complex itself housed both the administrative as well as the production side of its business. A fire prior to its closure ensured that the aesthetic environment of the abandoned premises would include much of the complex's content: the tools of both blue and white collar workers. These items - some of which are severely fire-damaged - suggest the chaos of the building's final days. Besides offering some incredible views of the city (and some really nifty machines), the building gave the impression that the workers were merely on a long, auspicious break.
Instead of trying to capture all of this in words, let me to show you Bunge as I saw it:

Following are the features which initially drew me to the building - all manner of pipes, catwalks, and twisted metal:




My next stop was the abandoned laboratories - full of goodies in disarray:






Beyond this was a series of administrative offices that rivaled even my own desk-area for messiness:



At this point, I headed up to the highest roof to see what view the complex had to offer:


Cursing myself for not visiting the nearby Harvey's beforehand, I was becoming quite hungry; unfortunately, the only food around was less than appetizing...

Now I came to the most interesting point - the burned-out sections, contents remaining. With keyboards, mice, monitors and coffee mugs still at the ready, it was quite a bizarre scene. By the end of this section, I had managed to cover myself almost entirely in soot.



I was forced to do a double-take with this first shot - it is the melted and re-formed cover to office overhead lighting; for better context, take a look here.






The penultimate stop was by far the most interesting, yet my final visit before a hasty exit to the old locker/change rooms confirmed a feeling that had been growing throughout my entire visit. Although quite ordinary on the surface, the personal details left behind gave me a strange nostalgia - one for a place I never knew. This strange oxymoron in emotion strikes me often in spaces such as these.



Of course, I did not get to see everything, but I did not want to overstay my welcome either; the complex will soon be razed to make room for a big-box style shopping plaza.

Although this is somewhat sad, it seems inevitable, given the changes to the surrounding neighborhood over the past decade. But for the workers -- and, now, for you and me -- the mall will always stand in the shadow of Bunge.



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Since then, I have given up on asking owners / etc. if I could salvage pieces if the place is going to be demo'd - of course, I wouldn't negotiate a price if the place was gonna sit, because it would ruin the aesthetic for any other 'visitors'...
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Until the mid-1980's that whole area was one big livestock processing area, with railroad tracks criss-crossing the road.. During the week you could see cows and hogs being offloaded into pens on the south side west of Weston Rd.
The Bunge factory rendered fat for oils and other products which contributed significantly to the pong that pervaded the area until only recently [the facility caught fire suspiciously last year, preceding the facility's closure]. Townhouse owners in the area have railed against this and other plants nearby (see my photos of the New York Pork facility fire in 2007, blogged here) in one of the worst cases of NIMBYism I've ever seen. I wonder if the Bunge plant's owners got a fair price for the property, finally - developers had been trying to lowball them for years, hoping for favourable legislation to force the plant out. Council was powerless except to change the zoning for subsequent property owners. Bunge could stay - but of course the fire changed things a bit and here we are.
I'll miss the 'smelly-car way', but then again, my grandparents are long gone and I make copious use of most of the big box stores that replaced the stockyards, too. Bunge had to go, for better or worse.
I went into the facility with some friends a few weeks ago. Really should get to work on those photos!
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