Toronto’s Dominion Public Building has sold for $275.1 million to Larco Investments Ltd. and many expect the private real estate firm from Vancouver to re-fashion it into a high-rise commercial and residential building. Under heritage protection all or much of the building would have to be saved. The 1930 building at 1 Front St. W. between Yonge and Bay Sts. dates from the days of Canada’s emergence from Imperial control into a nation-state Dominion. As seen above, the multi-purpose structure was intended to inspire pride. Most cities had one. The Dominion Public Building in Hamilton has been restored into a showplace as the courthouse. The beaux-arts style building was sold by the Canada Lands Company (CLC), the crown corporation that acquires surplus federal government properties to manage their sale and redevelopment.