Bloor Walk, 100 Hayden St: A Pool You Share with Couture Next Door

Bloor Walk is for buyers who want Bloor and Yonge on foot and a pool without paying for one alone. Philmor Group’s tower on Hayden Street, completed around 2005, has its own top-floor club and roof terrace, and shares a pool, whirlpool and fitness centre with Couture next door under a shared amenities agreement. The fee is the part I want you to look at closely, because it covers less than most buildings nearby. I’m Jatin Dua, RE/MAX Quantum Realty.

Brick and stone, with a club on top

Bloor Walk was built before the glass towers took over this corner. Its mix of brick, stone and glass, with warm wood accents inside, reads more like a mid-2000s apartment tower than the dark glass of its newer neighbours. CondoInvestments lists Bernard H. Watt as architect.

The amenity floor is at the top, not in a podium. A listing by Urbaneer describes a top-floor club with a party room, a card room, two lounges and a games room, opening onto a landscaped roof terrace with two barbecue areas. A rooftop amenity that every owner can use, with a view, is rarer than it sounds.

The same listing says the building was renovated in 2013. Ask what that work covered, since a refresh of common areas and a replacement of building systems are very different things.

The shared pool with Couture

The feature most buyers do not know about is the shared amenities agreement with Couture at 28 Ted Rogers Way. According to Urbaneer, Bloor Walk owners have access to a ground-floor pool and whirlpool with an outdoor terrace, plus a health spa and fitness centre, under that agreement.

Shared amenities are a good deal when they work, because two corporations split the operating and replacement costs of a pool. They can also be a source of friction. Read the agreement in the status certificate: how costs are split, who controls bookings and repairs, and what happens if one corporation wants out.

If a pool and a real gym matter to you, Bloor Walk gives you access to both without the cost of running them alone. If they do not, you are still paying your share.

Ask Crossbridge, which manages the building, for the current amenity booking rules, and ask a resident how easy it is to get pool time in practice. A shared pool used by two towers can be busy at the hours you would want it.

Sizes, and the records that differ

condos.ca records suites from about 526 to 3,066 square feet. Most of what sells is one-bedroom and one-plus-den suites of 500 to 800 square feet, with two-bedrooms and a small number of very large upper suites. CondoInvestments gives a typical range of about 592 to 944 square feet.

Public sources do not agree on the basics. condos.ca and CondoInvestments show 18 storeys, 165 suites and a 2005 completion, with CondoInvestments giving a height of about 65 metres. Urbaneer’s listing describes 22 storeys, 164 suites and 2004. Floor numbering that skips numbers and a registration year after occupancy can explain some of this, but confirm the details in the status certificate.

Bloor Walk is also easy to confuse with Bloor Walk Residences across the street at 99 Hayden Street, a nine-storey Philmor building from 1999. It is a separate corporation with its own fees and reserve fund. Make sure every document you review names TSCC-1655.

Hayden Street, day to day

Hayden is a short street tucked south of Bloor between Yonge and Church. You are a few minutes’ walk from the Bloor and Yonge interchange, the Manulife Centre and Yorkville, with Rosedale just across Bloor and the Village to the south.

The building has ten underground visitor spaces reached from Jarvis Street, per Urbaneer. With X Condos, X2 and Couture all within a block, this pocket is dense, so check what any suite you like looks at now and what it might look at later.

The trade-off for that location is noise and construction. Bloor East and the streets around Yonge have seen steady development, and more towers are proposed across the area. A suite facing an empty lot or a low building today may not keep that view, so I would weigh a north or upper-floor exposure more heavily here.

Price per square foot, and a fee that leaves heat out

condos.ca puts the building average at about $839 per square foot, close to Couture at about $816 and a little below X Condos at about $877. For a building of this age, that is a strong number, and it reflects the location a block from Bloor and Yonge.

The fee needs a careful look. Across current listings it works out to about $1.16 per square foot, which is high for this area, yet condos.ca lists only common elements, building insurance and water as included. Heat and hydro are not on that list. Part of the fee is your share of the club floor, the 24-hour concierge and the shared pool agreement. Ask for a full year of utility bills for any suite you are considering.

At the time of writing four suites were for sale, asking from about $439,000 to about $635,000, all between 500 and 800 square feet.

Building specifications

Amenities at Bloor Walk

Between its own top-floor club and roof terrace and the pool and gym it shares with Couture, Bloor Walk offers more than most buildings of its size. The shared arrangement is the part to understand before you buy, since it ties your amenities to another corporation. Ask for a copy before you make an offer.

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