Platinum East, 80 Alton Towers Circle: Big Suites, All-Inclusive Fee

Platinum East is the building on Alton Towers Circle for buyers who need room. Every suite condos.ca records is over 1,000 square feet, and the fee already covers hydro, heat, cooling, water and parking. In a city where new two-bedrooms keep shrinking, that is a rare combination at well under $500 a square foot. I’m Jatin Dua, RE/MAX Quantum Realty.

Only large suites: 1,084 to 1,314 square feet

The defining fact about Platinum East is size. Condos.ca records suites from about 1,084 to 1,314 square feet, which means the smallest suite here is larger than the biggest suite in many new towers.

A narrow, large size range tells you who the building was designed for: families and households who want a condo that works like a small house, with a proper living and dining room and bedrooms that fit real furniture. It also means the resale market is made up of those same buyers, so you are not competing with investors buying studios.

Large suites from the early 1990s often have original kitchens and bathrooms. Price the renovation before you offer, and look closely at windows and balcony doors, since they are a big part of comfort in a suite this size.

Ask how many parking spaces come with the suite. Households in suites this size often have two cars, and whether a second space is owned, rented from the corporation or simply unavailable makes a real difference to daily life and to resale.

A fee that covers hydro and heat, and is not high

The fee covers air conditioning, common elements, heat, hydro, building insurance, parking and water. That is close to fully inclusive. Across the circle, the two Optima on the Park towers leave heat and hydro out of their fees.

Both current listings here carry fees of about $665 a month. On suites of more than 1,000 square feet, with hydro and heat included, that works out to roughly 60 cents a square foot or less, which is modest by any standard and unusual for an all-inclusive building.

A low fee in an all-inclusive 1991 building is good news only if the reserve fund is keeping pace. The corporation owns and pays for the central heating and cooling plant, and those systems are expensive to replace. Read the reserve fund study to see whether the fee is low because the building is efficient and well run, or because big projects are still ahead.

Marchant’s tower on the circle

Platinum East was built by Marchant Building Corporation and finished in 1991, two years after the Optima towers next door. It is the tallest of the three at 19 storeys and has the most suites, 266, while the Optima buildings have 238 and 224.

The amenity list includes an indoor pool, a sauna, a gym, a tennis court, a security guard and security system, and an underground parking garage. A tennis court is uncommon in a Toronto condo, and here it sits alongside a pool and gym, which covers most of what residents actually use.

Shiu Pong Management is listed as the property manager. With a manager, a board and a reserve fund that are separate from the towers next door, this building’s track record is its own, and you should judge it on its own documents. I have not found a source naming the architect, so I have left that out.

Milliken, and the change coming to Steeles and Kennedy

Alton Towers Circle is a quiet loop of towers in Milliken, on the northern edge of Scarborough near the York Region boundary. The area’s commercial life is in the malls and plazas around Steeles and Kennedy, including Pacific Mall on the Markham side of Steeles.

That intersection is where change is concentrated. UrbanToronto reported in 2025 that a rezoning application had been filed for a transit-oriented community of towers between 25 and 50 storeys on the former Market Village lands beside Milliken GO, with more high-rise applications on surrounding sites. Milliken GO is on the Stouffville line, and Metrolinx has added entrances north of Steeles.

For an owner at Platinum East, that means more shops, services and transit nearby over time, and more new condo supply competing for buyers. Neither will happen quickly. The panel beside this review shows the current transit, schools and parks.

What Platinum East costs

Condos.ca puts the building’s average around $453 per square foot. That is almost the same as Optima on the Park II next door, even though this building’s fee includes heat and hydro and the Optima fee does not. On an all-in monthly basis, that gives Platinum East an edge.

Two suites are listed for sale as I write, asking between $469,900 and $499,000, both with fees of about $665 a month. Asking prices are a starting point, not values, and recent sales of comparable suites are the better guide.

Because every suite here is large, compare price per square foot against other large-suite buildings rather than against towers full of one-bedrooms, which always look more expensive per square foot. My building sold report lists recent sales at this address.

There is also a financing angle. Lenders count part of the condo fee when they assess what a buyer can borrow, and a fee of this size on a suite this large is easier to carry than most all-inclusive buildings. That helps both you and your eventual buyer.

Building specifications

Amenities at Platinum East

Pool, gym, sauna and a tennis court are more than most buildings of this size offer, and the guard gives the lobby supervision. All of them are long-term costs, so the reserve fund matters here. Ask when the pool and court were last resurfaced and what the study plans for them next.

Jatin’s honest take on Platinum East

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