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House of the Week: $1.9 million for a condo atop the TIFF Bell Lightbox

House of the Week: $1.9 million for a condo atop the TIFF Bell Lightbox

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ADDRESS: 80 John St, Unit 4202

NEIGHBOURHOOD: Waterfront Communities–The Island

AGENT: Winnie Lam and Kennedy Ho, Sultan Realty Inc., Brokerage

PRICE: $1,850,000

THE PLACE: A giant, 2,173-square-foot condo sitting in the new Festival Tower atop the TIFF Bell Lightbox. Keeping with the cinema theme, each room is named after a famous movie star—this particular one happens to be the Hoffman model.

BRAGGING RIGHTS: For the next 10 days, you have a front-row seat to the hottest event in the city, the Toronto International Film Festival. Don’t miss the chance to step out onto your balcony and pretend the hordes of people below are your own adoring fans.

BIG SELLING POINT: All the bells and whistles of hotel living, only in your own downtown condo—including an indoor pool, 24-hour concierge, 55-seat cinema and rooftop terrace.

POSSIBLE DEAL BREAKER: This place brings new meaning to the word stark—everything is white. If you’re a fan of colour, you’re going to have to host a few painting parties.

BY THE NUMBERS:
• $1,850,000
• $1,054.35 in monthly maintenance fees
• 2,173 square feet
• 10-foot ceilings
• 2 bedrooms
• 2 bathrooms
• 1 parking space
• 1 locker

Topics: cinema Condos Film House of the Week John Street TIFF TIFF Bell Lightbox

22 thoughts on “House of the Week: $1.9 million for a condo atop the TIFF Bell Lightbox”

  1. Nice but it’s not worth it. Nothing about the kitchen, bathroom, doors, fixtures scream upgrade (with the exception of the double oven). It just looks like any standard unit but bigger and on a high floor.

  2. I think this is excellent value compare with similar condos in London, England for $250 million!!!!!!!
    Absolutely gorgeous view!!!!!

  3. I’m dissapointed in the floors, they would have looked so much better in white otherwise I love what they’ve done to the place !

  4. Wow, Love the open design, high ceilings, and the views are incredible…looks like the suite has a lot of design possibilities. Some splash of colour would definitely help, but imagine the kind of parties you could throw there!

  5. Looks like an amazing place in a great location. I like the dark floors and the open concept. It’s like a NYC loft in the heart of T.O.

  6. Really give new meaning to Open concept…such a nice folow through.. I love it…amazing… FYI TL, ITS NOT THE WATERFRONT COMMUNITY/ISLANDS!!! Its King West or The Theatre District!

  8. Wow! The view is amazing with wall to wall windows, especially during TIFF. Would love to rub elbows with the stars. Perfect party pad!

  9. Oh June… Stay in Scarborough if you cant appreciate beauty. Notice the place appears empty, hence whoever buys its, spend about $5000 on nicely painting the place and some wicked artwork, try & get the dining table set ( it looks like a Starck design) and you will have a great pad high up in the sky overlooking June’s suburbia bungalow! LOL

  11. @Jackontrack….ohh a Starck reference, what a great eye you have, you must be in 2nd year at OCAD? Its sad that you’re already rejecting your childhood by slamming Scarborough. No worries, that stellar education of yours plus the parttime job @ Sears (furniture department of course) should net you lunch in the lobby of this place – Canteen – wicked!

  13. Ditto the NYC loft feeling. Love it. This condo possesses a lot of potential & space for art. I think perhaps the $1.9 price tag warrants a little staging…

  16. Pedro can carve em up! Nice one man…

    On the place though, it baffles me that at 1.9M and in a prime location they can’t stage the place for TIFF. And if it is supposed to be the HOFFMAN model, some visual cues might be nice to play on that idea (i.e. some Alfa Romeo Spider collectables, from ‘The Graduate’, A Chair in red sequins as an ode to ‘Tootsie’) Just throwing it out there, but it seems your realtors are brain-dead…

  17. Yeah… You bet Pedro can carve them up… from his trailer park maybe stealing hydro and WIFI to poke fun at people without adding any relevance to the topic at hand… yeah.. ‘smart’ guy Pedro… get back to the trash park …

    The place is awesome and Jackontrack – you are right on the money but please dont poke fun at anyone in any location, lets leave the cheap shots to cheap people- Pedro!

  18. Uh, this looks exactly like my crappy waterfront condo I couldn’t wait to escape from, just 3x the size (for 6x the price). Those heater units in the posts are terrible, the windows don’t really keep the place at a proper temperature, the kitchen is incredibly average… I could go on. See how much house you can get for that money and ask why on earth you’d trade that to pay condo fees, park in a shared lot, live with fire alarms, have no garden or greenery, have garbage chutes and elevators, share walls with people…. So you can say you live in… King West??! Don’t get it.

  19. Lee (now there’s a trailer park name for you!) what exactly did you add to this conversation???

    Loserville: Population: Lee

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