Toronto Condo Profile: Bliss Condos
From New Homes & Condos Magazine
The story opens with the fashionista and the stockbroker living side-by-side in bliss: not so far-fetched if you stroll around Liberty Village on any given day.
The story unfolds as stories do: these two live at Bliss, CanAlfa’s latest offering in Liberty Village, a 20-storey condominium tower on East Liberty Street. She’s in the 1,079 square foot penthouse suite – she needs room for her shoes, bags and accessories, don’t you know, while he’s opted for one of the two suites inspired by Mike Niven, the 1,107 square foot, two-storey loft, because he likes everything done, and done beautifully. She’s on her way to get her nails done at the salon down the street; he’s on his way to the gym before heading out to Dominion. It’s a Saturday, they wear jeans, they’re relaxed. Their hands reach for the elevator key pad at the same time, a lingering gaze, and they head to Balzac’s for coffee instead.
Anything is possible now.
Because unorthodox mix is what this community is all about, a mix of types from artists, to filmmakers, to computer geeks, the self-employed to the Bay Street lawyers and financiers.
A mix of architecture, from the gracious old Victorian homes nearby, brought back to original glory from former rooming house days, to the cutting-edge designs of converted warehouse loft housing with townhomes and new condo towers dotting the landscape.
A mix of styles are nearby, from the old haberdashers of Queen Street West to the culinary likes of Susur and Lee, and the fashion forward furniture shops of King West.
Residents claim they’re blessed and blissed, because nowhere else in the city is so down to earth and exciting. Run along the Martin Goodman Trail, stroll barefoot by the lake, take in the city views, window shop on Queen West, gnosh at any of the new trendy cafés, clubs and restaurants, join the throng of pedestrians out at lunch or after work, rub elbows with hot dog vendors and style mavens alike.
There are services galore, sprouting up as Liberty Village has developed into a veritable hub for grocery stores, restaurants, pet stores and banks. Greenspace leads into everything and several parks are starting to take shape; homes don’t just hold value, they’re increasing steadily.
The village is also home to a booming industry in film, graphic arts, and design, a mushrooming retail sector, and just 12 minutes by transit to financial and theatre districts. In fact, Liberty Village can support itself.
Vision is what gave birth to this whole area — when Walter Jensen looked out over desolate industrial lands south of King Street West and west of Strachan Avenue some 20 years ago, he saw a community.
But it was a vision fuelled by a century or more of Toronto history: nearby is Fort York, and on the site itself are the remains of industries which once powered the city’s industrial engine – Massey Ferguson, Inglis, A. R. Williams Machinery.
Says Jensen, “I could also clearly see what it could become.” Two decades later, his carefully planned community provides affordable, stylish housing to a broad range of people.
It’s people like our blissed-out fashionista and her stockbroker who say, as they raise a glass of bubbly, it’s a great place to live.
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