Living in Westlake Condos, Etobicoke: Onni’s Four Towers

By Jatin Dua · Updated August 10, 2026 · 8 min read

The community

Westlake occupies the south-east quadrant of the Park Lawn and Lake Shore junction — four towers on a connected retail podium, delivered in phases through the 2010s by Onni Group. The addresses are 2200, 2212 and 2220 Lake Shore Boulevard West, with Westlake Encore at 10 Park Lawn Road completing the set. The verified anchors: the 48-storey tower at 2200 Lake Shore, with 490 suites, completed in 2015, and Encore at 46 storeys and 529 units, registered in 2018.

One honest caution on naming: listing sites label the phases differently — the building strata.ca calls Phase I is not the one other sites call Phase 1 — so I refer to towers by street address rather than phase number, and I suggest you do the same when reading listings. The address is the fact; the phase label is marketing history.

The defining feature is the podium: more than 60,000 square feet of retail under the towers, anchored by a Metro supermarket, with further shops and services along the street frontages. Each tower has its own amenity spaces above — confirm the specific tower’s roster and booking rules when you view, because the four buildings are separate corporations with their own facilities.

Location and getting around

Westlake’s corner is the functional centre of Humber Bay Shores. The lake, Humber Bay Park and the Martin Goodman Trail are across Lake Shore Boulevard; the Gardiner Expressway ramps at Park Lawn are effectively adjacent; and TTC buses on the Lake Shore corridor stop at the junction. Mimico GO station sits to the north-west for rail commuters — walkable for some, a short bus hop for others, so test it at your own pace.

The flip side of the gateway position is the junction itself: Park Lawn and Lake Shore carries heavy traffic at peak times, and the corner is likely to keep evolving as the wider area develops. If you drive daily, run your commute at rush hour before you commit; if you do not, the location’s logic — retail below, transit outside, waterfront across the road — is hard to argue with.

What day-to-day life offers

This is the most self-contained address in the neighbourhood. A full supermarket in your own podium changes daily life in a way that is easy to underrate until you have carried groceries home through a February wind — at Westlake the errand is an elevator ride. The podium and surrounding frontages cover much of the weekly routine, and the rest of Humber Bay Shores’ cafés, restaurants and the waterfront promenade are minutes away on foot.

The community’s scale cuts both ways, and I would rather you hear it from me than discover it. Four towers above a shared retail base means over a thousand suites’ worth of neighbours in the verified anchors alone: the sidewalks are busy, the elevators work hard at 8 a.m., and amenity spaces are shared among many. In exchange you get the liveliness, services and around-the-clock convenience that only this kind of density funds. Which side of that trade you land on is a matter of temperament, not of right answers.

Who this community suits (and who it may not)

Westlake suits people who rank convenience first: car-light professionals who want groceries, transit and the Gardiner within a hundred metres of the lobby; investors who value an address that explains itself in one sentence; and anyone who likes the energy of a busy, mixed-use corner. Suite-for-suite it is often where clients start their Humber Bay search, because the daily-life case is so easy to see.

Weigh it carefully if your picture of waterfront living is quiet: the buildings on Annie Craig Drive and Marine Parade sit closer to the promenade and further from the junction, and trade doorstep retail for calm. Weigh the specific tower and exposure too — lines facing the lake, the junction and the neighbouring towers are different experiences at the same address, and the four corporations have their own budgets, amenities and rules. Judge the tower you are actually buying into, not the community’s name.

Buying or renting here

Buyers should anchor on the address, not the phase label, and review the status certificate for that specific corporation: finances, reserve fund, any shared-facility agreements with the other towers and the podium, plus the usual checks — parking and locker on title, pet and rental rules. With this many suites in one community there are nearly always comparables, so price against sales inside the same tower and line where possible.

Renters should note the phasing: units in the earlier towers, first occupied well before November 15, 2018, are generally covered by Ontario’s rent increase guideline, while Encore — registered in 2018 — sits close enough to the line that individual units should be checked rather than assumed. My guide to whether an Etobicoke rental is rent-controlled shows how to verify a specific unit.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

• TalkCondo — Westlake Condos. Community record: Onni Group, the phased towers, the 48-storey/490-suite tower completed 2015 and the retail podium. Accessed 10 August 2026.
• EtobicokeCondominiums.ca — Westlake Encore, 10 Park Lawn Rd. Building record: 46 storeys, 529 units, registered 2018. Accessed 10 August 2026.
• Strata.ca — 2220 Lake Shore Blvd W (labelled Westlake Phase I). Building record for 2220 Lake Shore; illustrates the inconsistent phase labelling across listing sites. Accessed 10 August 2026.

Related reading

• The Humber Bay Shores condo buildings guide
• Living in Key West Condos — the tower next door on Park Lawn
• Living in Beyond the Sea — Star and North Towers
• Living in Eau Du Soleil — Humber Bay’s twin towers
• Etobicoke community guide