A Gold Standard in the Heart of Downtown

The farming village of Eglinton, now known throughout Canada as Yonge and Eglinton once held the distinction of being one of Canada’s largest cattle grazing regions. But in addition to the presence of slow moving bovines placidly chewing their cuds, the Yonge and Eglinton neighbourhood was also the site of the 1837 Battle of Montgomery’s Tavern, a violent affair led by Willam Lyon MacKenzie that was eventually crushed by British soldiers and units of the Canadian militia.

These days the only sound of gunshots and cannons are from the discordant din of pneumatic tools and hammering rising from the ditch that will eventually become the Eglinton station of the Cross Town LRT.

Completed just three years ago, eCondo an ivory-white and steel-gray towers strike a majestic profile amidst the monoliths that populate Yonge and Eglinton. The residents occupying eCondo’s 646 units have available to them an impressive array of amenities, including their indoor eInfinity pool, state-of-the-art gym, bike storage, media room, BBQs, four luxurious guest suites, recreation room, party lounges, yoga studio, dining rooms with full kitchens and a roof-top deck that offers a spectacular, panoramic view of not only Toronto but, on a clear day, the milky-white mist billowing from Niagara Falls.

“We have a lot of young professionals and young families in our building,” says Yas- min Khalegi, the Board’s Secretary. And a lot of caring residents like the good souls who came together spontaneously to form ‘The Assistance Group’ in order to help housebound residents with their grocery shopping, pet walking and picking up prescriptions during the pandemic. In a building where approximately 75% of the units are rental, that speaks well of the sense of community the Board has fostered.

“We value our community so much and even though we are a young building, a massive building with so many units it’s so unbelievable how this sense of com-