Kodak Mount Dennis Campus, also known as Kodak Heights, was an industrial park in the Mount Dennis neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was owned and operated by the Eastman Kodak Company as a major camera manufacturing factory since its opening in 1912, peaking at 900 employees in 1925, 3,000 in the 1970s, falling to about 800 before it ceased the plant's operations in 2006.
Kodak Heights under construction in 1914
The abandoned and vandalized Kodak Building 9, circa 2013
Mount Dennis is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was initially an urban area within the former township of York. Primarily located along Eglinton Avenue between the Humber River and the Kitchener commuter rail line, the neighbourhood was best known for Kodak Heights, once a major film manufacturing facility owned and operated by the Eastman Kodak Company. According to the 2016 Toronto Ward 11 Census, 62,620 residents are in the area, with a median age of 39.3 as of 2016, and a population growth of over 0.4% as of 2016. 24, 895 households are in Ward 11, and 230 net new households were built in 2016. A total of 31,125 of 62,620 are immigrant populations as of 2016. Unemployment rate is 9.5% in Ward 11 as of 2016, with an average household income of $66,447 and is much lower than Toronto's average of $102,721 as of 2016. Average rent price is $940/month as of 2016's census as well.
Weston Road south of Eglinton Ave. W.
Aerial view of the Kodak campus in Mount Dennis in 1917, which is now a TTC Black Creek Servicing Yard and LRT station in 2022 called Mount Dennis Station. The homes at the bottom left are now the site of a No Frills Supermarket, which were ex-propriated due to the CN rail-line expansion through the area
Storefronts along Weston Road in Mount Dennis at Weston Road and Eglinton Ave West, looking North.
Mount Dennis Library is a branch of the Toronto Public Library located in the neighbourhood.