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Home of the Week
The view from 50 storeys up
Carolyn Ireland – Globe and Mail
183 Wellington Street West, Suite 5002 – $2.4999-million
The Building
During the Toronto International Film Festival, fans lined the barricades outside the Ritz-Carlton, hoping to catch sight of George Clooney and Ryan Gosling, among other marquee names. A better strategy for meeting the stars might have been to purchase a suite at the Residences at the Ritz-Carlton, then spend a lot of time hanging out at the bar.
The 267 guest rooms of the luxury hotel make up one component of the 53-storey tower while the 156 residential suites take up the rest. Designed by New York-based Kohn Pedersen Fox, the building has a dramatic glass-enclosed podium facing Wellington Street.
The residents arrive to the same porte-cochere as the hotel guests and share access to the hotel’s amenities and five-star pampering. But the residences have a separate lobby – all the better for avoiding the paparazzi.
From the main-floor lobby, condo dwellers take the elevator to a sky lobby on the 21st floor. The common spaces include meeting rooms, a screening room, billiard room and a guest suite.
The individual suites don’t have balconies but a furnished outdoor roof terrace with an adjacent wet bar is available to all.
“I was here the other night and the sun was setting,” says real estate agent Carl Langschmidt of Royal LePage Your Community Realty Inc. “It was quite pleasant.”
The perks include ordering from room service or – for a night out – a short hop to the farm-to-table dining at TOCA. The residences have a small gym with a close-up view of the CBC Broadcasting Centre, but condo dwellers can also breeze past the velvet ropes and bowler-hatted doormen to use a spa, salon, pool and fitness centre at the hotel.
The building’s location provides quick access to TIFF headquarters, the Bay Street financial district, the Rogers Centre and Roy Thomson Hall.
Mr. Langschmidt says the residences appeal to downsizing empty nesters moving out of large houses in Rosedale and other posh neighbourhoods. Many such buyers flee to warmer temperatures in the winter months and would rather lock up a condo than an unattended house.
The Suite
Mr. Langschmidt points out that the elevators from the sky lobby provides direct access, James Bond-style, to the front door of the suites.
Suite 5002 is a sub-penthouse with a city view from the 50th floor.
“My client picked the north view intentionally,” Mr. Langschmidt said. “With the south view, at night the lake is black,” he says of the vista over Lake Ontario.
The owner, Paul Flanagan of KickStart Marketing and Design Inc., has chosen a modern style and finishes for the 2,525-square-foot suite.
The living space includes a large, combined living room and dining room. A separate kitchen has a breakfast area, island, built-in wall ovens and under-the-counter wine fridge. The split plan separates the two bedrooms so that the master, with ensuite bath and walk-in closet, has more seclusion. There is also a library that can be used as a third bedroom.
A service entrance lets caterers enter the kitchen without intruding on the soirée in the living area.
The Best Feature
The height, combined with floor-to-ceiling windows, makes for a very bright and quiet dwelling.
“In the afternoon, the sun’s just pouring into the unit,” Mr. Langschmidt says. “You have spectacular sunsets in the west.”
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Laurin & Natalie Jeffrey are Toronto Realtors with Century 21 Regal Realty.
They did not write these articles, they just reproduce them here for people
who are interested in Toronto real estate. They do not work for any builders.
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Bohemian Embassy Condos and Lofts on Queen Street West
Queen Street West has emerged as the neighbourhood that defines cool in Toronto. Its boutiques, nightspots, cafes, and restaurants are the places to see and be seen. For the hip, urban crowd, Queen West defines the best in downtown lifestyle.
Fittingly, Baywood Homes is now contributing its version of cool on Queen Street West with its new Bohemian Embassy, a stylish condominium in the heart of the city’s cultural capital on the corner of Queen and Gladstone, just steps from equally famous Toronto icon, the Drake Hotel.
This updated salute to the best of urban lifestyle offers two buildings and architecturally charming townhomes designed by award-winning architects Page + Steele, with lobbies and amenities by the renowned II BY IV Design Associates Inc.
The project comprises a nine-storey mid-rise building facing Queen West that will have retail stores on the street level, residential suites, and recreational amenities for residents, in addition to a 19-storey tower tucked behind it where residents can enjoy a view of the city or the lake.
The townhomes complement the site and offer a change of pace for those seeking to live in a creative neighbourhood. A landscaped courtyard, lush with greenery, connects the structures and is tucked away from the hustle and bustle of Queen Street, but is visible as a quiet oasis through the arched gateway.
The beautifully landscaped courtyard is just the visible signature of the pleasures that lie within. There is a men’s and women’s fitness centre and a multimedia lounge, perfect for entertaining guests. But there is also the unexpected – such as the Bohemian Sky Lounge with its upbeat outdoor patio, a great place to barbecue, sit around the fireplace, take in the sun, or entertain friends and relatives.
Baywood has taken great care to offer the widest range of suites in both design and price. The 345 units encompassing flats and lofts start from $159,900 and top off with a magnificent 1,200-square-foot two-level, two-bedroom, and two-bath loft.
In between are one bedroom, one-bedroom-plus-den, two-bedroom, and two-bedroom-plus-den suites, each of which has its own balcony, and some even have terraces.
The Queen West streetcar puts the subway and the rest of downtown just minutes from your doorstep. Best of all, Bohemian Embassy is affordable – priced to attract a mixture of residents, making Queen West a sought-after neighbourhood.
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Tribute Communities Celebrates Topping Off of Innovative Queen & Portland Condominium
It has rightly been called one of the most innovative residential projects in the City of Toronto and a vision of what city life should be like the future. Now Queen & Portland, set on the streets of the same name in the city’s Downtown West neighbourhood has completed the first giant step towards move in day.
Developer Tribute communities, its partner RioCan REIT, buyers and the retailers that will occupy lower floor space gathered today to officially top off the amazing mixed-use project.
What makes Queen & Portland so unique is that it is as close as a manageable sized condo can come to being a blended neighbourhood, complete with residences, retail and even green spaces and small terraces in the sky.
Q&P is a 7-storey, mid-rise structure that starts with two and a half levels of retail space and uses that as a base on which to set a modern marvel of terraces, sky gardens, lofts and traditional suites.
That retail space will be home to an urban version of Loblaws, Joe Fresh and Winners among others. The Loblaws will occupy approximately 38,700 sq. ft. over the entire second floor; Joe Fresh, Teopia, Bank of Montreal and one other will be on the street level and Winners will share the third floor with some residential suites that face onto Queen West.
As Tribute president Al Libfeld pointed out to this audience, no other downtown project offers residents their own 20,000-square-foot landscaped mini-park high above Queen West. In fact, it is a mini-park designed by the city’s top Green designer – Andrea Kantelberg. What other condominium can say residents have their own front or backyards – terraces that range from 300 to 1,125 square feet in size, he asked.
“We are enormously proud of Q&P,” he said.”I think we have created something here that brings lasting credit to everyone involved with the project – our partner RioCan, the design and construction teams and our forward thinking retailers.”
Queen and Portland currently offers lofts, one-bedroom as well as three bedroom suites large enough for a family.
The lofts are especially dramatic. There are 9 of them on the third floor facing Queen West. Each has 10-foot ceilings and the dramatic floor-to-ceiling north facing windows open onto those terrific terraces.
Upper floors offer large two-bedroom and two-bedroom and den traditional residences. They can run as much as 1,300 square feet and have their own east-facing terraces, some large enough for a game of croquet.
As for amenities, Tribute knows its market. The Queen and Portland area is the big plus here. The condominium will have a state-of-the-art exercise room and a concierge to man the lobby desk and a banquet of diversions just outside the front door.
If fashion is your thing, you’ll find edgy designer boutiques, classic vintage shops and familiar fare like Winners downstairs and Club Monaco and Le Chateau all within steps of each other. If music is your life, then Q&P is the place to live it. It’s just a matter of finding your favourite amongst the countless record stores in the area, from independents like Rotate This to HMV.
Groove with your favourite bands live at clubs like the legendary Horseshoe Tavern, Rivoli and Reverb. Make your own music by picking up a guitar at Steve’s Music and dance the night away in the nearby club district. If you’re in the mood for something more relaxing, enjoy a local art gallery, find something to read at Queen West Staples, Silver Snail Comics or Pages Books and Magazines, take a stroll in Trinity-Bellwoods Park, or pamper yourself at the Hammam Spa.
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