Tower of Power: who lives where at One Bedford, the new downtown address of choice for uptown potentates
Tower of Power: who lives where at One Bedford, the new downtown address of choice for uptown potentates
In the three years since it was completed, One Bedford, the 32-storey monolith above, has become de facto HQ for tastemakers in business, media, arts and politics. Chalk it up to its location at the nexus of three high-rent neighbourhoods, which allows residents to self-identify as posh Yorkvillers, U of T brainiacs or quinoa-munching Annexers as needed. One of the latest big-name tenants to join the party is the mayor. Here’s who he calls neighbour.
Eighty-eight-year-old shoe matriarch Sonja Bata, who owns a 2,600-square-foot penthouse on the 32nd floor, gets picked up every morning and driven a block to her office at the Bata Shoe Museum.
Duncan McEwan, tech investor, owner of Diligent and vice-chair of the Royal Conservatory of Music, owns a unit on the 14th floor.
Philanthropist Eric Jackman, of the highly philanthropic Jackman clan, owns a unit on the 31st floor.
Alan Broadbent, head of Toronto’s Maytree foundation, owns a unit on the 13th floor.
Belinda Stronach’s family owns a 12th-floor pied-à-terre where her eldest son stayed for a while.
Peaches, the original Lady Gaga, stays at her mom’s unit on the 25th floor when she’s in town.
John Tory and Barbara Hackett live in a sprawling unit on the 11th floor. She attends building functions. He, a noted early riser, is rarely seen.
Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente shares a unit with her doc-making husband on the 23rd floor.
Peter Oundjian, music director of the TSO, and his wife, Nadine, own a unit on the 10th floor.
Starchitect Bruce Kuwabara moved to a 17th-floor unit post-divorce. He takes his kids swimming in the second-floor pool.
Hello! magazine gossip guy Shinan Govani lives on the seventh floor.
Bestselling historian Margaret MacMillan owns a place on the sixth floor. Her brother Tom has a $1-million unit 16 floors up.
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In the three years since it was completed, One Bedford, the 32-storey monolith above, has become de facto HQ for tastemakers in business, media, arts and politics. Chalk it up to its location at the nexus of three high-rent neighbourhoods, which allows residents to self-identify as posh Yorkvillers, U of T brainiacs or quinoa-munching Annexers as needed. One of the latest big-name tenants to join the party is the mayor. Here’s who he calls neighbour.
Eighty-eight-year-old shoe matriarch Sonja Bata, who owns a 2,600-square-foot penthouse on the 32nd floor, gets picked up every morning and driven a block to her office at the Bata Shoe Museum.
Duncan McEwan, tech investor, owner of Diligent and vice-chair of the Royal Conservatory of Music, owns a unit on the 14th floor.
Philanthropist Eric Jackman, of the highly philanthropic Jackman clan, owns a unit on the 31st floor.
Alan Broadbent, head of Toronto’s Maytree foundation, owns a unit on the 13th floor.
Belinda Stronach’s family owns a 12th-floor pied-à-terre where her eldest son stayed for a while.
Peaches, the original Lady Gaga, stays at her mom’s unit on the 25th floor when she’s in town.
John Tory and Barbara Hackett live in a sprawling unit on the 11th floor. She attends building functions. He, a noted early riser, is rarely seen.
Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente shares a unit with her doc-making husband on the 23rd floor.
Peter Oundjian, music director of the TSO, and his wife, Nadine, own a unit on the 10th floor.
Starchitect Bruce Kuwabara moved to a 17th-floor unit post-divorce. He takes his kids swimming in the second-floor pool.
Hello! magazine gossip guy Shinan Govani lives on the seventh floor.
Bestselling historian Margaret MacMillan owns a place on the sixth floor. Her brother Tom has a $1-million unit 16 floors up.){kind=link}
Shinan Govani…. who?
LOL, Random man from Brampton owns condo.
and this is newsworthy because??
who the fuck are all these people
There’s a Starbucks in the lobby and a Tim’s across the street. What more do you need for amenities?
yeah, who are all these randos
This is just so awful of TL. I refuse to buy anymore of your magazine. How dare you out all these people and their privacy?! WHY?!! If I recall… John Tory while running for Mayor, did not do his interview with City TV despite all the other contenders did that interview in their home as he did not want people to see/know where he live… now you have outted him and others ( despite some are no-no!) but still this is a huge security risk!! Will you apologize?!!
i scrolled down to write the same thing
This is creepy and unsafe. Gross.
mayor tory got that ballin swaggrrrr
Plebe, I believe the description after the name tells you WTF they are
“People Live in Building” is what the headline should have been.
I could not agree more with you. Of what use, value, reason is there to state where these people live – it is beyond the pale. How would all the staff or at least the executive of St. Joseph’s Media and Toronto Life feel if their places of residence was spread all over like this. I swear you get lower and lower by the article and by the day. This is shocking.
Thank you, can’t believe I missed that
Relax this is a huge condo with security whose residents drive, or get driven in and out, through the parking garage. Joe public can’t just sit around and wait outside their unit to say hello, or vent about a slow streetcar ride, even if the article had provided a unit number. Unlike regular people their number and addresses are likely not in the phone book (& internet equivalent).
I’m not particularly interested in the usual random details provided, like which sports team the Mayor supports, his favourite music band or whether he has a decent martini recipe, but I believe that the number, worth and location of real estate owned by the Mayor, and their cost, provides some context for positions taken. The kinds of people that live in the building, his neighbourhood, also provides context for those off hand comments – the people I talk to say, John..
“Wow, you’re so right Margaret”.