A venture of New York-based DRA Advisors is buying the retail and office property at 1 E. Erie St., at the base of the Ontario Place condo tower.

The current record-holder, First Canadian Place in Toronto's Financial District ... bringing the building's roofline to roughly eye-level with the CN Tower's main observation pod.

Phone video captured the moment lightning struck the famous Canadian tower on Wednesday morning. The lightning hit during thunderstorms that left around 800,000 people across Canada without power.