Auberge on the Park, 30 Inn on the Park Dr: Tridel on the Old Inn Site

Auberge on the Park sits on one of the more storied sites in North York, the old Inn on the Park hotel, and it was designed for buyers who want a big suite, a real terrace and parkland outside the window. It is a Tridel product through and through, with the fees and the polish that come with that. I’m Jatin Dua, RE/MAX Quantum Realty.

Built on the Inn on the Park

The Inn on the Park was a 1960s resort hotel on this site, known for its dining, its pools, an early on-site fitness club and what is often described as Canada’s first disco. It was demolished to make way for a multi-tower Tridel and Rowntree community, and the name Auberge, French for inn, is a direct nod to it.

The first stage pairs this 45-storey tower with a 29-storey tower on a shared five-storey podium, for 642 suites between them, plus 20 three-storey townhomes set into the podium at grade. The wider plan was conceived as a three-tower community, with a third tower following this first stage. The towers share a single interconnected underground garage.

Condos.ca lists Rowntree Enterprises as the developer of 30 Inn on the Park, while construction reporting and the design team’s own release name Tridel, with Tridel’s construction arm, Deltera, building it. In practice this is a Tridel and Rowntree joint venture, and Tridel’s finishes and sales standards show throughout.

Terraces, larger suites and the design

The architecture is defined by cascading terraced balconies stepping across the façade. The design brief, according to the interior designers, was to deliver larger suites that could work for family living, with substantial outdoor space, rather than another tower of compact one-bedrooms.

That shows in the listings. The current range runs from one-bedrooms in the 500 and 600 square foot bands up to large two-bedroom-plus-den and three-bedroom suites. Few towers in North York offer that spread under one roof.

The lobby is a double-height space with a European, grand-hotel feel, and the interiors by II BY IV DESIGN lean on soft colours and traditional details. If you like Tridel’s style, you will like this building. If you prefer a minimalist look, this is not it.

Height matters in a 45-storey tower. Lower floors look into the podium, the pool deck and the neighbouring tower, while upper floors get the long views over the ravines and toward the downtown skyline that the site was designed around. Price the floor and the view, not just the square footage, and check which suites look directly at the 29-storey tower.

The amenity podium, and what it costs

The amenities are spread across the shared podium: about 3,000 square feet at the lower levels with a theatre, multipurpose rooms, a dining room and party rooms, and about 5,000 square feet on the fifth level with a whirlpool spa, yoga and spin studios and a fitness centre. These open onto an outdoor pool deck of roughly 5,000 square feet with barbecues and lounge seating.

Across the full community, the amenity program was described at about 27,600 square feet. That is a resort-scale package, and it is shared with the neighbouring tower, so ask how costs are split between the corporations under any shared facilities agreement.

Fees across current listings average about $0.93 per square foot. That is mid-range for a Tridel tower with concierge, an outdoor pool and this much amenity space, and it is likely to rise as the building settles into its real operating costs.

Leslie and Eglinton, day to day

The original hotel was placed here for its access to the Don Valley Parkway and the parkland around it, and both still define daily life. The ravine and park system around Wilket Creek, Sunnybrook Park and Edwards Gardens is close, and the DVP is minutes away by car.

The Eglinton corridor is changing quickly, with the Crosstown line and a wave of new towers around Leslie, Don Mills and the former Science Centre lands. For a 2024 building, that means more services over time and more new competition on resale.

That competition is the main thing I watch on this corridor. A large number of new suites are planned or under construction along Eglinton within a short drive, and many of them are compact investor units. Larger suites with terraces are much harder to replicate, which is why I expect them to hold up better here than the smaller plans.

Day-to-day shopping is mostly by car or a short drive to the Shops at Don Mills and the plazas along Eglinton. The transit panel on this page has the real distances.

Pricing and fees at Auberge on the Park

Nine suites are listed for sale right now, asking between $498,000 and $1,650,000. That spread reflects the range of the building more than anything else: compact one-bedrooms at the bottom and large terrace suites at the top.

Monthly fees across those listings run from about $529 to $1,607, or roughly $0.93 per square foot. Condos.ca does not list what the fee includes, so confirm in the status certificate whether heat, water and the shared amenity costs are bundled, and whether parking is included.

With nine suites for sale and eight for lease, there is real choice here, which usually means room to negotiate on the compact units. The larger terrace suites are scarcer, and they are the ones I would expect to hold value best. For actual recent trades, see my building sold report.

Building specifications

Amenities at Auberge on the Park

This is one of the larger amenity programs in North York, with a real outdoor pool deck and a full wellness floor. If you will use it, it replaces a gym membership and then some; if you will not, you are still paying for it in your fee.

Jatin’s honest take on Auberge on the Park

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