Roncesvalles Lofts Edit Building

Identification

Approximate Address - 25 Ritchie Avenue [map]

City - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Region - Greater Golden Horseshoe

Nearby Buildings - 2154 Dundas Street West, High Park Lofts, Palisades on the Glen, Bloor Dundas Square, Tower Automotive Building, The Crossways A, One Columbus Avenue Lofts, The Alhumbra, Nestle Canada, 1639 Bloor Street West

Technical

Type - Mid-Rise

Designation - Condominium

Status - Complete

Floors - 5

Units - 39 suites

Suites - From 57m²615feet² to 167m²1800feet²

Companies

Developer - Triumph Developments

Mechanical Engineering - Trow Associates Inc.

Building Record History

2007 - Complete

Reference Material

Contributors: Rod Taylor

• Harness, Allison. (2007, 9 June). "Plenty of choice in price and view in west Toronto". Toronto Star.

  RONCESVALLES LOFTS: 25 Ritchie Ave., south of Bloor St., just east of Roncesvalles Ave. Builder: Triumph Developments. A five-storey building with 39 live/work units and an exterior of metal cladding and efis (like stucco). Prices: from $204,900 for 615 sq. ft. to $705,000 for 1,845 sq. ft. Fees: 32 cents per sq. ft., plus heat and hydro. Amenities: lounge and garden central courtyard. Sales: about 70 per cent sold. Status: construction to start summer 2007. Occupancy: spring 2008.

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• Moorhouse, Ellen. (2006, 14 October). "Attention to details pays off in unique loft building". Toronto Star.

  This is how intern architect David Peterson decided to incorporate colour into the clean, streamlined room, with soaker tub, rain showerhead, tempered glass shower partition, cantilevered sink and sliding doors that conceal the laundry.

  It's another example of the thought Peterson has lavished on this 37-unit, live-work project called Roncesvalles Lofts, set on a somewhat inhospitable site near Howard Park and Roncesvalles Aves.

  The lofts, which range from 685 to 1,950 square feet, will all have balconies, terraces or garden patios.

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• Moorhouse, Ellen. (2006, 14 October). "Pro-active approach to runoff". Toronto Star.

  Now a Toronto condo project, Roncesvalles Lofts near High Park, is being designed to keep its storm water runoff out of the sewers, by redirecting it to storage tanks, and then into lily ponds and planters in a courtyard.

  "Normally for storm water management, you're not doing too much with the water," says infrastructure engineer Murray Thompson of Trow Associates Inc. "You're just slowing it down or taking out the impurities, which is of interest to most of the municipalities."

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• Yu, Sydnia. (2006, 15 September). "Low-rise set to compete with the big guys". Globe and Mail.

  With towering condominiums going up all over the Toronto area, Triumph Developments is launching something more modest in size — a five-storey building called Roncesvalles Lofts. But the company says it's confident the project will stand up to the competition, in part because its design uniquely integrates interior space with natural elements, but also because all suites can be used as work/live spaces.

  The architectural style of the 37-unit structure is "quite different from what one normally sees," says Chander Chaddah, a broker with Sutton Group Associates, which is handling sales for the project on Richie Avenue between Roncesvalles Avenue and Dundas Street West.

  Developer: Triumph Developments

  Square footage: 650 to 1,800

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• Harness, Allison. (2006, 19 August). "Sites between Humber River and Bathurst St". Toronto Star.

  RONCESVALLES LOFTS: 25 Ritchie Ave., south of Bloor St., just east of Roncesvalles Ave. Builder: Triumph Developments. A five-storey building with 37 live/work units and an exterior of metal cladding and efis (like stucco). Prices: from $249,900 for 685 sq. ft. to the $554,800 for 1,520 sq. ft. Fees: about 34 cents per sq. ft., plus heat and hydro. Amenities: lounge and garden central courtyard. Sales: 50 per cent sold. Status: construction not started. Occupancy: December 2007.

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• "Sales Site". Accessed 17 May 06.

• Harness, Allison. (2006, 13 May). "South of Bloor St. busy with projects". Toronto Star.

  RONCESVALLES LOFTS: 25 Ritchie Ave., south of Bloor St., just east of Roncesvalles Ave. A five-storey, 37-unit building with an exterior of metal cladding and efis (like stucco). Prices: from the low $200,000s for 684 sq. ft. to the low $500,000s for 1,520 sq. ft. Fees: 37 cents per sq. ft., plus hydro. Amenities: lounge and garden central courtyard. Sales: opening mid-June. Status: construction not started. Occupancy: end of 2007.

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