Published 19 October 2026 · By Jatin Dua, Broker of Record, RE/MAX Quantum Realty
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75 & 85 Queens Wharf Rd, Toronto
Built
2015
Storeys
41
Suites
943
Developer
Concord Adex
Corporation
TSCC-2458
Walk Score
97
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How you get around
Scores from Walk Score®
Walk Score
Walker's Paradise
Transit Score
Rider's Paradise
Bike Score
Very Bikeable
Transit, nearest first
- 511Bathurst St at Fort York Blvd511 Bathurst streetcarSteps away
- 29DufferinTTC bus1.0 km
- 63OssingtonTTC bus1.0 km
- 1St Andrew stationLine 1 Yonge–University1.5 km
- GOUnion Station GOBarrie / Kitchener / Lakeshore East / Lakeshore West / Milton / Richmond Hill / Stouffville lines1.6 km
- UPUnion stationUP Express · Pearson to Union1.6 km
- 114Queens Quay EastTTC bus1.8 km
TTC is renewing streetcar track at Long Branch Loop through late 2026; some Lake Shore streetcar trips run as buses.
Distances are straight-line from the building.
How far is everything?
From the front door, in kilometres.
Schools for this address
Public schools from the TDSB school locator, checked 18 October 2026. Boundaries change: confirm with the board before you buy.
ElementaryJK–8
Jean Lumb Public School
20 Brunel Crt Unit 2, Toronto
0.4 km · ~6 min walk
Zoned for this address
High schoolGr 9–12
Harbord Collegiate Institute
286 Harbord St, Toronto
2.8 km
Zoned for this address
Catholic elementary
Bishop Macdonell Catholic Elementary
0.4 km · ~6 min walk
Nearest, confirm zoning
Catholic elementary
St Mary Catholic Elementary School
1.0 km · ~16 min walk
Nearest, confirm zoning
Catholic secondary
St Joseph's College School
3.0 km
Nearest, confirm zoning
French-language · Viamonde (public)
Ecole Elementaire Pierre Elliott Trudeau
2.0 km
Nearest, confirm zoning
Catholic (TCDSB) and French-language schools shown are the nearest to the building, not confirmed zoning. Check the TCDSB school locator, Viamonde or MonAvenir.
By the numbers
What units at Quartz & Spectra actually trade for
| Unit type | Sold | Median price | Leased | Median rent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 1 | too few | 18 | $1,900/mo |
| 1 bed | 28 | $492,500 | 95 | $2,380/mo |
| 2 bed | 9 | $730,000 | 23 | $3,600/mo |
| 3 bed + | 4 | $852,900 | 11 | $4,000/mo |
Table covers the last 24 months. TRREB MLS® System aggregates; a median is shown only with 3 or more deals, and sizes come from listing ranges. Not an appraisal: get an estimate for your unit.
Living here
Renters, Airbnb and elevators at Quartz & Spectra
Do mostly owners or renters live here?
Renter-heavy building. Of 368 deals here in the last 24 months, 304 were leases and 64 were sales. A high lease share usually means more investor owners, more move-ins and a deeper pool of rental comparables.
Can you Airbnb a unit at Quartz & Spectra?
No active City registrations here right now. In Toronto you can only host in your principal residence, a whole unit for at most 180 nights a year, with a $390 yearly registration and 6% accommodation tax. You cannot buy here to run it as a full-time Airbnb. Check the condo’s rules in the status certificate before you count on it.
How reliable are the elevators?
Ontario requires residential buildings to report any elevator outage lasting 48 hours or more, and this address has none on record. Elevators still need modernizing every 25 to 30 years, so check the reserve fund study for the date.
Sources: TRREB MLS® System lease and sale counts; City of Toronto short-term rental registrations (Open Data, 18 Oct 2026); TSSA Residential Elevator Availability portal.
Before you buy here
Five things the listing will not tell you about Quartz & Spectra
- Reserve fund health. Ask for the latest reserve fund study and its date. A thin fund in an older building usually means fee jumps or a special assessment.
- Special assessments and big repairs. Check the status certificate for planned levies and for balcony, garage, window or elevator work.
- Insurance deductible. Find the corporation’s deductible for water damage. If it is higher than your own policy covers, raise your coverage before closing.
- Fee trend. Compare this year’s budget with last year’s. Rises of 2–5% a year are typical; bigger jumps need an explanation.
- Lawsuits and rules. Look for legal claims against the corporation, and for rules on pets, short-term rentals and leasing.
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Eat, drink and shop nearby
Within about a 10-minute walk.
Sushi
Zenshi Handcrafted Sushi
Steps away
Restaurant
Sister Sister Mobile Cafe
Steps away
Coffee
Aroma Espresso Bar
Steps away
Burgers
McDonald's
Steps away
Restaurant
Roses New York Restaurant
Steps away
Ramen
Sansotei Ramen
Steps away
Places from OpenStreetMap. Check hours before you go.
Parks nearby
- Canoe Landing
- Northern Linear Park
- Bathurst Quay
Nearest grocery
Loblaws
Steps away
Prices: TRREB MLS® System aggregate medians for 75 & 85 Queens Wharf Rd, last 12 months (updated 18 October 2026), compiled by Jatin Dua, Broker of Record, RE/MAX Quantum Realty Inc., Brokerage; deemed reliable, not guaranteed. Schools: TDSB school locator; Catholic and French schools: nearest by distance. Transit and scores: Walk Score® and TTC/GO station locations. Nearby places: OpenStreetMap. Distances are straight-line estimates.
Quartz and Spectra are the CityPlace towers I point to when a buyer tells me every glass tower downtown looks the same. RAW Design gave Concord two faceted towers on Queens Wharf Road and, more usefully, a separate amenity building, the Prisma Club, with a pool, courts and studios that most single towers cannot afford. The catch is that the club, the 943 suites and the park view all come with a busy, small-suite building. I’m Jatin Dua, RE/MAX Quantum Realty.
Quick answer
Quartz & Spectra is a two-tower condominium at 75 and 85 Queens Wharf Road in CityPlace, downtown Toronto, developed by Concord Adex with RAW Design as architect and Figure3 as interior designer. Quartz is 41 storeys and Spectra 39; listing data shows 943 suites across the corporation. It was completed in 2015, and the condominium corporation, TSCC-2458, was registered on 2 June 2015. Property management is listed as Elite Property Management. The maintenance fee includes common elements, heat, air conditioning, building insurance and water.
Quartz & Spectra at a glance
Two towers, one club
Quartz and Spectra went up together, with construction starting in 2011 and EllisDon as builder. Quartz is 41 storeys and about 132 metres tall; Spectra is 39. Because Quartz sits on the lower part of a sloping site, the two roofs end up at roughly the same height, which is why the pair reads as twins from Canoe Landing Park.
What separates this pair from most of CityPlace is the Prisma Club, an angular stand-alone amenity building that serves both towers. As marketed, it holds an indoor pool, an outdoor hot tub, a poolside lounge, a screening room, billiards and card rooms, a massage lounge, a yoga studio, cardio and weight rooms, and a combined badminton and half-size basketball court. Spectra also has its own rooftop terrace with a lounge, outdoor dining and barbecues.
I like the separate building for one practical reason: the noisy, high-traffic amenities are not in your tower’s lobby or on the floor below your suite. Ask the management office for current hours and booking rules, since a club this size is usually busy in the evenings.
RAW Design and the faceted look
RAW Design is a Toronto firm known for playful, angular forms, and Quartz and Spectra show it. The towers are layered and faceted rather than flat glass slabs, and the podium carries the same geometry. Figure3 did the interiors, including the Prisma Club.
The design is more than decoration. The angled facades give many suites corner or wedge-shaped rooms, which can mean wider window walls and better light, but also odd corners that are harder to furnish. Walk the actual floor plan before you buy, not the brochure render.
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Small suites, large building
The active listings tell you who this building was built for. Most of what is for sale right now is studios, one-bedrooms and one-plus-dens, mostly under 700 square feet. That suits a first-time buyer or an investor, and it also explains why 943 suites fit in two towers.
Scale cuts both ways. Fees are spread across a lot of owners, elevator waits at rush hour are real, and there are always units for sale and for lease, which helps you price a suite but also means you are competing with many near-identical units when you sell. A suite with a clear park or lake view, a balcony that is actually usable, or a layout with a proper den will stand out. A north-facing studio over the podium will not.
If you are looking at a one-plus-den, check the den before you count it as a bedroom. In plans of this size the den is usually an open alcove without a door or window, which works as a home office but will not satisfy a roommate or a tenant who wants a second bedroom. Price it as a one-bedroom with extra space, because that is how the next buyer will see it.
Parking is not part of the maintenance fee here, so confirm whether a space and locker come with the unit, whether they are owned or exclusive-use, and what any separate charge is.
Living on Canoe Landing Park
The towers face Canoe Landing Park, the roughly eight-acre park at the heart of CityPlace designed with artist Douglas Coupland, known for its giant red canoe and its playing fields. It is the main green space in the neighbourhood, and an outlook over it is one of the better views in CityPlace because nothing can be built on it.
Day to day, you are in a dense, young neighbourhood a short walk from the waterfront, the Rogers Centre and King West, with groceries and services at the bases of nearby towers. The trade-off is noise. Event nights, the Gardiner to the south and the rail corridor to the north all reach some suites, so ask about exposure and visit on a game night. Transit and walkability details are in the data panel on this page.
What Quartz & Spectra cost
At the time I wrote this there were 13 suites for sale and 8 for lease. Studios were asking roughly $349,900 to $370,000, one-bedrooms roughly $449,900 to $525,000, and one-plus-dens roughly $529,000 to $559,000. Fees on those listings ran from about $379 to $695 a month, averaging about $0.90 per square foot.
That fee looks high next to newer buildings, but it includes heat, air conditioning and water as well as common elements and insurance, and it is paying for a pool, courts and a separate club building. Compare total monthly cost, not just the fee line. A building at $0.65 per square foot with heat and cooling on your own meter and no pool is not automatically cheaper.
For what suites here have actually sold for, use the aggregate data on this page or ask me for a building sold report.
Building specifications
| Building name | Quartz & Spectra |
| Address | 75 and 85 Queens Wharf Rd, Toronto M5V 0J8 |
| Developer | Concord Adex |
| Architect | RAW Design (interiors by Figure3) |
| Builder | EllisDon |
| Storeys | Quartz 41; Spectra 39 |
| Total suites | 943 (per listing data, both towers) |
| Condo corporation | TSCC-2458 |
| Registered | 2 June 2015 |
| Property management | Elite Property Management (per listing data) |
| Maintenance fees | About $0.90 per sq ft on current listings |
| Fees include | Common elements, heat, air conditioning, building insurance and water |
| Not included | Hydro and parking (confirm with the status certificate) |
Amenities at Quartz & Spectra
This is one of the most complete amenity packages in CityPlace, and because it sits in its own building it does not crowd the residential lobbies. If you would use a pool, courts and a yoga room every week, the fee is buying you something real; if you would not, you are paying for it anyway.
Jatin’s honest take on Quartz & Spectra
Who this building suits
First-time buyers and young professionals who want a downtown studio or one-bedroom with a real gym and pool, and investors who want a liquid building with steady tenant demand. It also suits anyone who values a protected park view, provided they pay for a suite that actually faces the park.
What I’d want you to check
The building is about ten years old, so read the reserve fund study, especially for the pool and club building, which are expensive to run and eventually replace. Confirm parking and locker ownership, since neither is in the fee. Check the suite’s exposure for noise from the Gardiner, the rail corridor and event traffic, and look closely at angled rooms in the floor plan. Pet and leasing rules are in the declaration and rules; read them before you buy.
The value question
Small suites here trade in a busy, competitive market, so value comes down to the specific unit. A park-facing suite with a usable layout is a good long-term hold in a building with better amenities than most. A generic interior-facing studio is a commodity, and I would only buy one at a price that reflects that.
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Quartz & Spectra — frequently asked questions
Who developed Quartz & Spectra?
Concord Adex, the developer of most of CityPlace. RAW Design was the architect, Figure3 did the interiors and EllisDon built it.
How tall are the towers?
Quartz is 41 storeys, about 132 metres; Spectra is 39. Quartz sits lower on the sloping site, so the two finish at about the same height.
How many suites are there?
Listing data shows 943 suites across the two towers, which share one condominium corporation, TSCC-2458.
What is the Prisma Club?
A separate amenity building shared by both towers, marketed with an indoor pool, hot tub, gym, yoga studio, screening room, billiards and a badminton and half-basketball court.
What do the maintenance fees include?
Common elements, heat, air conditioning, building insurance and water. Hydro is separate, and parking is not listed as included.
When was it built?
It was completed in 2015, and the corporation was registered on 2 June 2015.
Who manages the building?
Listing data shows Elite Property Management. Confirm with the status certificate.
What park is next to Quartz & Spectra?
Canoe Landing Park, the roughly eight-acre park in the centre of CityPlace designed with Douglas Coupland.
Who does this building suit best?
Buyers of studios and one-bedrooms who want strong amenities, and investors looking for a liquid CityPlace building.
How does it compare with Forward Condos next door?
Forward, at 70-90 Queens Wharf Road, is Concord’s newer 2018 building on the same street. Quartz & Spectra’s main advantage is the Prisma Club; compare fee inclusions suite by suite.
How much do condos at Quartz & Spectra sell for?
Over the last 12 months the median resale at Quartz & Spectra was $550,000, across 42 sales. The typical unit sold in 24 days at about 96% of the asking price. That works out to roughly $829 per square foot.
How much is rent at Quartz & Spectra?
The median lease at Quartz & Spectra over the last 12 months was $2,400/mo, from 147 leases. Units typically leased in 13 days.
What does each unit type cost at Quartz & Spectra?
Over the last 24 months: Studios rented for $1,900/mo; One-bedrooms sold for a median $492,500 and rented for $2,380/mo; Two-bedrooms sold for a median $730,000 and rented for $3,600/mo; Three-bedrooms sold for a median $852,900 and rented for $4,000/mo. Each median uses three or more deals.
Are prices at Quartz & Spectra up or down since 2022?
Down about 32%. The median sold price per square foot was $1,222 in 2022 and $829 over the last 12 months. Pricing off 2022 comparables is the most common mistake sellers make here.
What rental yield does Quartz & Spectra offer an investor?
At a median price of $550,000 and a median rent of $2,400 a month, the gross yield is about 5.2%, before maintenance fees, property tax, insurance and mortgage interest. Net cash flow depends on the fee and your down payment, so run the numbers for the exact unit.
Do mostly owners or renters live at Quartz & Spectra?
Mostly renters. Of the deals here in the last 24 months, 83% were leases and 17% were sales.
Can you Airbnb a unit at Quartz & Spectra?
Only in limited cases. Toronto allows short-term rentals only in your principal residence, a whole unit for at most 180 nights a year, with a $390 yearly City registration and 6% accommodation tax. The City’s register shows no active short-term rental registrations at this address. The condo’s declaration and rules can ban short stays outright, so check them in the status certificate.
Has Quartz & Spectra had elevator outages?
None on record. Ontario requires residential buildings to report elevator outages of 48 hours or more to TSSA, and this address has no reported outage since July 2022.
What schools is Quartz & Spectra zoned for?
For TDSB public schools, the address is zoned for Jean Lumb Public School (Elementary, JK–8), Harbord Collegiate Institute (High school, Gr 9–12). Catholic and French-language schools are listed on this page by distance. Boundaries change, so confirm with the board before you buy.
What is the closest subway or GO station to Quartz & Spectra?
The nearest subway is St Andrew station (Line 1 Yonge–University), 1.5 km away; the nearest GO station is Union Station GO on the Barrie / Kitchener / Lakeshore East / Lakeshore West / Milton / Richmond Hill / Stouffville lines, 1.6 km; UP Express runs from Union station, 1.6 km; the 511 Bathurst streetcar stops 0.1 km away; the closest bus is the Dufferin (TTC bus). Distances are straight-line from the building.
What is the Walk Score of Quartz & Spectra?
Walk Score 97, Transit Score 91 and Bike Score 87. Most daily errands can be done on foot.
What restaurants and shops are near Quartz & Spectra?
Within about a 10-minute walk: Zenshi Handcrafted Sushi (Sushi), Sister Sister Mobile Cafe (Restaurant), Aroma Espresso Bar (Coffee), McDonald's (Burgers), Roses New York Restaurant (Restaurant). The closest grocery store is Loblaws, 0.1 km away.
What is my unit at Quartz & Spectra worth?
Use the free AI estimator at the top of this page. It uses this building’s own recent sales and adjusts for floor, view and parking, and your number appears instantly. For a written CMA, I will price your exact unit against the latest comparable sales.
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About the author — Jatin Dua, Toronto condo broker
I’m Jatin Dua, Broker of Record at RE/MAX Quantum Realty. I work condo buildings across Toronto and the GTA every week, including King West, Liberty Village and CityPlace. What buyers and sellers usually need is someone who knows the individual buildings: which exposures get the light, which corporations keep healthy reserve funds, and which units are priced past what they will appraise for.
If you’re buying or selling at Quartz & Spectra, I’ll give you the honest version — including when I think you should walk away. Reach me at [email protected] or 833-330-1925, or book a free consultation.
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