88 Queen Condos: The 52-Storey Tower That Finished the Queen East Block

88 Queen is the last piece of a project that turned one of downtown’s largest parking lots into a full city block of towers. St Thomas Developments finished it in 2025 at 52 storeys, with a hotel in the podium and a retail mews and public square at its feet. It is a bigger, more complete package than most new towers on this corridor, and it is priced like it. I’m Jatin Dua, RE/MAX Quantum Realty.

The last tower on a former parking lot

For years, the block between Queen and Shuter, Dalhousie and Mutual was one of the largest surface parking lots downtown. Over nearly a decade it was rebuilt in phases: 88 North on Shuter Street came first, then Fitzrovia’s Elm and Ledbury rental buildings facing Mutual and Dalhousie, and finally this tower on Queen.

Because the whole block was planned together, the ground floor works better than most. A retail-lined mews runs north–south through the site with herringbone clay-brick paving, an east–west passage connects to Dalhousie, and there is a privately owned public space with planting beds and a public art installation of metal spheres. Landscape design was by CCxA and NAK Design Strategies.

For residents, that means shops and cafés downstairs, a pedestrian route through the block and a small square at your door. It also means public foot traffic through the site at all hours, which is the trade-off of a building that opens itself to the street.

Mint green, bronze and a hotel below

Hariri Pontarini designed the tower with Turner Fleischer. The window wall pairs white powder-coated frames with pale mint-green spandrel panels in a subtle plaid, with central fins on the south face. The podium is different: bronze-coloured mullions and transoms around large punched windows, with a curved glass section facing the public square.

The podium also holds a hotel, reported by UrbanToronto at 160 rooms. A hotel shares the building but is normally a separate ownership, with its own entrances and services. That can be a plus, with a restaurant or bar downstairs and life in the base, but it adds complexity. Read the shared facilities agreement to see how costs for the structure, garage and systems are split between the hotel and the condominium.

The earlier marketing said all suites would have a balcony and described ceiling heights of about 8 feet 6 inches on lower and mid floors, about 9 feet higher up and 10 feet in the penthouses. Those are marketing figures; confirm the height in the suite you are buying.

A wider suite range than most

Suites run from about 514 to 2,108 square feet. There are no micro-studios at the bottom of the range, and the top end reaches true family and downsizer sizes, which is unusual for a new tower on this corridor.

Marketing in 2020 described one- to three-bedroom plans. The current listings include both a two-bedroom and a three-bedroom, and the three-bedroom suites are worth a look for families who want new construction downtown, since few nearby towers offer them.

Documents submitted to the City in 2020, when the design called for 534 suites, described a seven-storey podium over five levels of underground parking with about 264 spaces. That is better than many recent downtown towers, but it is still far fewer spaces than suites, so confirm whether parking comes with the suite.

Queen and Church

The location puts the Eaton Centre a few minutes west and St. Michael’s Hospital and the Garden District nearby. St. James Cathedral and the St. Lawrence neighbourhood are a short walk south, and The Saint and Spire are within a couple of blocks. The automatic panel on this page covers transit, schools and walkability.

Queen Street East is busy and carries streetcars, so suites on the south side of the lower floors will hear it. Higher floors have open views in several directions, though other towers are rising in the area and no view is guaranteed.

Living above a hotel also changes the feel of the building. There will be guests with luggage, deliveries for the hotel’s restaurant and more people coming and going than in a purely residential tower. Some buyers like that energy and the services it brings; others want a quiet lobby. Find out how the residential entrance and lobby are separated from the hotel’s before you decide which camp you are in.

Pricing at 88 Queen

condos.ca puts 88 Queen at about $887 per square foot. That sits between Yonge + Rich at about $840 and Spire at about $995, and close to Core at 68 Shuter at about $873 and 77 Shuter at about $848.

Fees on current listings average about $0.81 per square foot, which is reasonable for a new building with a large shared ground plane. condos.ca does not list fee inclusions, so confirm them in the status certificate, and note that a new building’s first budget can understate costs.

The larger suites are where this building stands out on price. A three-bedroom in a new downtown tower is hard to find at all, and when it is priced per bedroom rather than per square foot, the numbers here can compare well with older buildings that need renovation.

Only two suites were for sale at the time of writing, asking about $600,000 to $778,000, with monthly fees of about $550 to $660. Six suites were listed for rent. With so few listings, the average per square foot can move quickly as more resales happen. For aggregate sold figures, see my building sold report.

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