Bridle Path North: nine astounding megamansions in Vaughan
Bridle Path North: nine astounding megamansions in Vaughan
Cheap acreage has long made Vaughan and the surrounding area ripe for big builds. No longer. An Ontario pro-density act discouraging mega-mansions has sparked a race to erect mammoth homes in subdivisions that were approved before the legislation. Here, nine odes to excess north of North York.
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- <strong>Listing Price:</strong> $4,480,000<br /><br /> <strong>The Seller:</strong> Armando De Marco, retired founder <br /> of Demarco Group, a window company.<br /> <br /> <strong>The Place:</strong> A 14,000-square-foot manor shared by two De Marco generations—Armando and his wife in the main building, their daughter’s family in a four-bedroom wing above the massive garage.
- 15485 Highway 27
- 15485 Highway 27
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- 264796
- <strong>Listing Price:</strong> $4,488,000<br /><br /> <strong>The Seller:</strong> Deborah Rody, owner of beauty supply company Spa Resource.<br /><br /> <strong>The Place:</strong> A 7,500-square-foot château that backs onto Magna golf course, with gym, home theatre, wine cellar, elevator, heated driveway, infinity pool, loggia and hot tub.
- 19 Glorious Song Lane
- 19 Glorious Song Lane
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- <strong>Listing Price:</strong> $5,000,000<br /><br /> <strong>The Sellers:</strong> Daniel Leonhardt, retired office supply exec, and Sheron Alton, guitarist in the ’80s band Toronto and co-writer of Heart’s “What About Love?”<br /><br /> <strong>The Place:</strong> An 11,750-square-foot eco-home with private music venue (bar, stage and green room), backyard swimming pool and two ponds.
- 29 Moraine Forest Trail
- 29 Moraine Forest Trail
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- 264802
- <strong>Listing Price:</strong> $4,750,000<br /><br /> <strong>The Seller:</strong> Rocky Bova, proprietor of Pine Valley Enterprises, a landscaping company that develops parks across the GTA.<br /><br /> <strong>The Place:</strong> A 5,900-square-foot palace with two saltwater pools framed by flaming urns, cabana with pizza oven, and parking for 80 cars.
- 480 Stephanie Boulevard
- 480 Stephanie Boulevard
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- 264801
- <strong>Listing Price:</strong> $17,800,000<br /><br /> <strong>The Sellers:</strong> Boris Pulec and Lidia Di Nicolo, co-founders of the Toronto College of Dental Hygiene.<br /><br /> <strong>The Place:</strong> A 24,000-square-foot Versailles with faux-Hellenic sculptures, marble fountain, ceiling frescoes, pool, ballroom, gym, library and man-cave called the “Ferrari room.”
- 90 Rocmary Place
- 90 Rocmary Place
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- 264800
- <strong>Sold For:</strong> $5,750,000<br /><br /> <strong>The Seller:</strong> Ellen Bowlin, president of JSL Synecdoche, a steel foundry.<br /><br /> <strong>The Place:</strong> An 11,000-square-foot behemoth with two-storey marble fireplace, art niches, gold-leaf ceiling treatments, games room, spa, pool and in-law suite with an elevator.
- 41 Trailwood Crescent
- 41 Trailwood Crescent
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- 264794
- <strong>Listing Price:</strong> $3,488,888<br /><br /> <strong>The Sellers:</strong> Andrew Meikle, co-founder of the Dental Corporation of Canada, and stylist and former fashion model M. T. Meikle.<br /><br /> <strong>The Place:</strong> A 6,200-square-foot Eden with six fireplaces, gym, sauna, wine cellar, saltwater pool, waterfall and outdoor pizza oven from Naples.
- 2 Nightfall Court
- 2 Nightfall Court
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- 264795
- <strong>Listing Price:</strong> $5,000,000<br /><br /> <strong>The Seller:</strong> Sandra Dou, president of FudakinLED, which makes commercial bulbs.<br /><br /> <strong>The Place:</strong> A 13,000-square-foot five-bedroom house with two-storey living room, elevator, Provençal kitchen, seven-piece bathroom and caterer’s kitchen.
- 18 Parr Place
- 18 Parr Place
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- <strong>Listing Price:</strong> $5,500,000<br /><br /> <strong>The Seller:</strong> Shimon Shramban, retired owner <br /> of Olde Fashioned Bagel Factory and Bakery.<br /><br /> <strong>The Place:</strong> An 8,000-square-foot château with two wine cellars (a chillier one for white), six-metre-high lobby with crystal chandelier, and grand staircase reminiscent of Scarface.
- 53 Proctor Avenue
- 53 Proctor Avenue
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Cheap acreage has long made Vaughan and the surrounding area ripe for big builds. No longer. An Ontario pro-density act discouraging mega-mansions has sparked a race to erect mammoth homes in subdivisions that were approved before the legislation. Here, nine odes to excess north of North York.
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Most of these houses are awful.
Justifiable arson is a thing, right?
the trappings of success
funny how this was not in my issue…
I can’t believe how horribly tacky every one of those houses is. They just scream “Look at me, I want everyone to see how much money I have, yet how little taste I have”. I would honestly be embarrassed to live in any of those places.
grotesque display of new money. Would NEVER live in the burbs. All these homes are tacky especially the versailles/greek monstrosity. No amount of money can buy taste or class. C