| The Sutton Place Hotel Toronto | |
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| Location | Toronto, Ontario |
| Address | 355 King Street West |
| The Sutton Place Hotel Toronto | |
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| Location | Toronto, Ontario |
| Address | 355 King Street West |
The Sutton Place Hotel Toronto is a luxury hotel in the Canadian city of Toronto, Ontario. The Sutton Place Hotel Toronto is situated at 355 King Street West. From 1967 to 2012 The Sutton Place Hotel was situated on Bay Street. The hotel in its new location is now under the full ownership and operations of The Sutton Place Hotels, having been rebranded from King Blue Hotel Toronto. The Sutton Place Hotels also have locations in Vancouver, Halifax, and Revelstoke.
The Sutton Place project was developed by Max Tanenbaum, the founder of York Steel, and the lawyer David Dennis. The architectural firm Webb Zerafa and Menkès – the descendant of Peter Dickinson Associates – designed the building, which along with the hotel included luxury apartments on the upper floors. The design echoed the Southland Center in Dallas, which was also a monolith that featured a large block-letter name at the top. The 32nd and top floor, which was numbered 33 due to the exclusion of a 13th floor, held the restaurant Stop 33 which featured a starlight ceiling and tall windows. Also included in the structure were two pools, a pub, a banquet hall and an office building. The lobby featured a mural painted by Shirley Tattersfield depicting Canada's history, a tribute to the country's centennial that year. At the time of its opening, Sutton Place was the tallest building in Toronto north of Queen Street.
Three months after it opened, the stock promoter Myer Rush was seriously injured by a bomb planted in the bed of the 6th-floor room where he was staying. Myer had been due in court the next morning to face charges in an alleged $100 million stock fraud. [1]
During its time Sutton Place hosted numerous celebrities and was a major destination for actors during the annual Toronto International Film Festival. Notable guests included Pierre Trudeau, Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor, Stevie Nicks and Ted Danson. In 1967, the vibraphonist Hagood Hardy recorded the album Stop 33 in the lounge of the same name, where his band had a residency.
It was operated by the Sutton Place Hotel Company (SP), which also manages hotel properties in Halifax, Revelstoke and Vancouver (The Sutton Place). [2]
43°39′53″N79°23′13″W / 43.664770°N 79.386974°W Sutton Place was a hotel and apartment building in Toronto, Ontario that operated from 1967 to 2012. Named after the Surrey manor house Sutton Place, the building was located at the intersection of Bay Street and Wellesley Street. Floors 1-10 served as the hotel, floors 11-32 as private apartments, and on the 33rd floor was a lounge called Stop 33, which offered panoramic views of the city.
The 32-storey hotel (which excluded the number 13 in its count) was designed by Webb Zerafa and Menkès in a brutalist style, and at the time of its completion was the tallest building in Toronto north of Queen Street. Sutton Place hosted dignitaries and celebrities regularly.
After 45 years of operations, the hotel closed in June 2012. Beginning in 2014, the building was stripped to its skeleton and rebuilt as a condominium tower called The Britt, which opened in 2019.
It was sold to a Hong Kong-based ownership group in 1993. It was purchased in the early 2010s by Lanterra Developments. [3] The hotel officially closed on 15 June 2012, forty-five years after opening. All contents of the hotel were sold at auction in 2014.
In 2013, the redevelopment plan faced some opposition from most of the tenants in the 161 rental units. [4] In late 2015, the building was gutted, several stories were added, and work began on converting the existing frame into a new condominium tower called The Britt, completed in 2019, [5] which contains 727 residential units, 78 of which are rental units. [6]
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