The Winslow, 1 Strathgowan Ave: 60 Large Suites Built for Quiet

The Winslow is a building for people leaving a house, not for people buying their first condo. Devron put just 60 large suites into a nine-storey masonry building at Yonge and Strathgowan, finished in 2024, and spent its effort on things you notice after you move in: sound between suites, leak protection and humidity. That makes it one of the more specific downsizer buildings in Lawrence Park. I’m Jatin Dua, RE/MAX Quantum Realty.

Gentle density on Yonge, in masonry rather than glass

The Winslow replaced a four-storey rental apartment building on the site, and the project was required to rebuild 28 rental suites alongside the 60 condominiums. That is why the building holds more homes than its condo corporation count suggests. Those replacement rentals sit within the project, so the owners you share a lobby with are not all condo owners.

ERA Architects, best known for heritage work, worked with Rafael + Bigauskas on the design. The goal they described was context and scale: a residential look, simple detailing, shadow lines and warm, solid materials. The result is a masonry facade rather than a glass curtain wall, which suits a street of older houses and low apartment buildings.

At nine storeys and roughly 35 metres, it is a mid-rise in the true sense. It reads as part of Yonge Street rather than a tower on top of it, and that is a large part of why buyers coming from nearby houses like it.

Suites sized like houses

This is not a building of one-bedrooms. At launch Devron described family-sized suites from roughly 1,000 square feet to more than 4,000, and the eighth-floor penthouses run to about 640 square metres, close to 6,900 square feet. Every resale listing on condos.ca when I checked was a two-bedroom, which tells you the core of the building is large two-bedroom plans.

For a downsizer, that matters. You can keep a dining table that seats eight, a proper den and real storage, and you are not choosing between selling furniture and buying a second locker.

Check the floor plan for the specific suite rather than the model name, because a building with this few suites and this many custom combinations can have plans that differ from the marketing brochure.

Built for the complaints people usually have about condos

The most distinctive thing about The Winslow is what Devron chose to engineer. The developer says sound transmission between suites is reduced by more than half compared with industry standards, using a three-inch buffer and insulation in the walls between suites and added measures in ceilings and floors.

Wet areas are waterproofed with a lifetime leak warranty, and a leak detection system shuts off water automatically. Windows are thicker, high-performance units with upgraded frames, and suites have built-in humidifiers, which anyone who has lived through a dry Toronto winter in a new condo will appreciate.

Those are developer claims, so ask what the warranty documents actually say, who holds them, and whether they transfer to a resale buyer. A lifetime leak warranty is only as useful as its terms.

The City of Toronto lists the project as a Toronto Green Standard Tier 2 building, a step above the base requirement for new development. The City’s profile puts as-built energy performance about 16 percent better than the code baseline, with low-flow fixtures and drought-tolerant planting cutting water use.

Parking is in four underground levels, and the City reports that about 27 percent of the spaces have Level 2 electric vehicle chargers. For a buyer bringing a car from a house, ask whether the space that comes with the suite is one of the charger-equipped spaces, or whether one can be added and at what cost.

Indoor bicycle racks are provided for residents and retail tenants, with outdoor racks for visitors. Recycling and organics rooms are on the parking level, which is worth a look on your visit, since the waste routine is one of the small daily differences between a house and a condo.

Yonge and Strathgowan, day to day

The Winslow sits on Yonge in Lawrence Park South, on the stretch of shops and restaurants between Eglinton and Lawrence. The ravines are the local asset: Blythwood Ravine and Alexander Muir Memorial Gardens are both close enough to make a daily walk realistic.

Strathgowan is a quiet residential street, so the building has a busy main-street side and a calm side street. Ask which way the suite you are looking at faces, because that one detail changes how it feels to live there.

The area is also connected to the city’s transit changes, with the Eglinton Crosstown to the south. For a buyer who wants to stay in Lawrence Park and give up stairs and snow shovelling, there are only a handful of buildings that offer suites of this size.

What large suites cost here

Condos.ca puts the building’s average at about $1,444 per square foot. That is high for midtown, but it reflects a new, small, concrete-and-masonry building with large suites, and per-square-foot figures on suites over 1,500 square feet can look lower than smaller condos in the same area.

When I checked, four two-bedroom suites were listed for sale, asking from about $1.55 million to $1.9 million. Their monthly fees ran from about $1,330 to $1,690. Fees at that level reflect suite size and a full-service building with 24-hour concierge, so compare them per square foot against similar buildings rather than in total dollars.

Fee inclusions are not published on condos.ca, so ask for the budget and confirm whether heat, cooling and water are included or billed by suite. Because the building is newly registered, the first-year budget may change as the corporation learns its real costs. My building sold report will give you the aggregate sales picture.

Building specifications

Amenities at The Winslow

The amenity list is short and grown-up: a social room with a large kitchen for hosting, guest suites for visiting family, a fitness room, an outdoor barbecue area and a pet wash on the ground floor. It is built for people who entertain at home, not for a pool-and-theatre lifestyle.

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